Counselling for Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexuals and Trans at Switchboard |
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The Counselling project offers short term, focused counselling to individuals and couples, working on an agreed issue/are for a maximum of 12 sessions.
Switchboard is a non-profit making charity and we rely on clients counselling fees to cover our costs. We operate a sliding scale based on the clients ability to pay.
| Our LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans) affirmative approach |
| Our LGBT affirmative approach involves:
All of our counsellors work voluntarily with the counselling project. They are all Lesbians or Gay men with recognized counselling/therapy qualifications (or undergoing a recognized training). Our counsellors' training, theoretical background, skills and experience differ, however all of our counsellors work in LGBT affirmative way. All of our counsellors abide by recognized codes of ethical practice. They receive regular clinical supervision and are monitored to ensure the highest standards of good practice.
As an organizational member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy we are bound by their Ethical Framework for Good Practise and subject to their complaints procedures.
Before starting counselling or therapy, we would advise all lesbians and gay men to ask their counsellor or therapist the following questions:
- How long have you been in practice?
- Do you have experience of working with LGBT clients?
- How would you describe your way of working?
- What is your training background?
- Was any of it about sexual orientation?
- Please tell me about your code of ethics.
- Do you have regular supervision?
You can either call Switchboard (01273 204050, open daily 5pm - 11pm, voice and minicom) and ask the operator for a referral form. Once you have returned this to us, a counsellor will contact you to arrange an initial session within our central Brighton counselling rooms.
Contacting the counselling project coordinator (or leave a message) asking for a form 01273 202384.
Emailing the Services Manager asking for a form using our email form
Or you can download the application forms :-
Standard Application form (word, 57kb).
| You can download the leaflet produced by the counselling project, by clicking on the image to the right. The content is the same as this page and the file is in the PDF format and you will need to print out the leaflet and fold into three. If you cannot access this file, it may be that you have not got a recent copy of acrobat reader which can be downloaded here.
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view/download leaflet 2 MB
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| A poster to promote the service can be downloaded here. |
view/download poster 84kb
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 Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard are pleased to announce the launch of its new relationship counselling service in partnership with Brighton & Hove Relate. The new service PROUD2CONNECT provides relationship counselling to LGBT people delivered by Relate trained counsellors who identify as LGBT, and have an understanding and awareness of the issues that affect LGBT people and their relationships. Relate's fee scale applies to this service, which includes the committment to not refuse a service to anyone who is unable to pay. The service can be accessed by contacting Relate directly on 01273 697 997. You can also find out more about PROUD2CONNECT by contacting Switchboard's help-line on 01273 204050 (from 5pm daily) or Switchboard's Services and Development Manager on 01273 207050.
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