Fundraising

Phoenix is an established voluntary organisation providing counselling to adults and children. The team is made up of our founder Fran Halford and an amazing team of 100 volunteer counsellors who all have considerable clinical counselling experience. We are all volunteering extra hours to meet the ‘here and now’ needs of people’s emotional and mental health.

The ethos of Phoenix is to ensure we do our part in supporting our community’s emotional and mental health.

This free service has been set up to run alongside our low cost service to ensure that, at the time of need, people can access the counselling they need.

Once lock down is over we will immediately offer a face to face service for anyone that can come to our centre, but will maintain the virtual counselling service, to ensure access to those who can’t actually get to our centre.

Our lives have changed in ways no one could ever have imagined in the past 6 weeks, and no one knows when some sense of normality will return to our daily lives.

During these frightening times, we’ve seen the very best and bravest in humanity.

NHS employees and their families, key workers, teachers, carers, to all those that have worked behind the scenes to ensure that we can get our supplies and all types of services, who are still working on our behalf to ensure some sense of normality in our daily lives and all the volunteers who have reached out to those who are vulnerable and isolated.

For countless people the impact of this on their lives will be traumatising and it will take many months before they feel any control again.

Right now, many are at breaking point. What they are going through will significantly impact on their emotional and mental health.

Living with self-isolation, loss of social and family connection, loss of income and restricted freedom, mixed with fear for the safety of those in contact with Covid-19, all serve to erode an individual’s emotional well-being.

Counselling can help an individual gain control of their thoughts and feelings and, at the same time, provide an outlet to talk freely and gain peace of mind.

With your help, we will offer free counselling , at this difficult time, because no-one should have to ignore their emotional wellbeing because of an ‘inability to pay’ or have to wait months on a waiting list.

£15 will pay for an individual session

£40 will pay for a anxiety training package for a school to support children

£50 will pay for 8 sessions pf parenting support

£75 will pay for 12 sessions of play therapy for a young carer

£100 will pay for one person’s entire counselling

For everyone and their families to be able to share their concerns, fears and anxieties when putting on a brave face as their loved ones continue to put their own lives at risk to save other loved ones.

Those who fear for their own and their family’s futures waiting for financial support to arrive and not knowing how they can provide the basic needs.

To help manage children’s and parents’ fears and anxiety, due to school closures and how to support children when they do return to school, whose worlds are nothing like how they were on the 23rd March 2020.

To provide therapeutic support and assigning posting to agencies to get help for themselves and their children.

Who have experienced  an unexpected death due to Covid-19 and have not been able to say goodbye to their loved ones.

Whose children have mental health needs – such as anxiety, self harm and suicidal thoughts, and those who struggle to get through the day without routine, loss of school friends and teachers.

We are based in Feltham TW13, our service is not postcode restricted and will give a warm welcome to anyone who would like to come to our centre once we re-open our doors.

For our virtual counselling service there are no restrictions.

Mental Health Support and Counselling for teachers  – London Boroughs of Hounslow, Richmond, Kingston, Hillingdon, Surrey and Middlesex.

Phone and Therapeutic Parent Line and Domestic Abuse – this service is available to residents and those who work in the following areas. London Boroughs of Hounslow, Richmond, Hillingdon and Surrey, Middlesex and Berkshire.

From all of us here at Phoenix Counselling Service and on behalf of those who will now be able to access counselling at the time of need without waiting or having to make a decision of choosing their own emotional and mental wellbeing over an inability to pay.

Your donation will truly make a difference in someone’s life.

Fran Halford

Founder of Phoenix Counselling Service