KavaCounselling

Do you feel frustrated? Distressed? Can't see a way forwards? Need to get unstuck? Let's talk. You might feel in crisis, or perhaps there's an issue that just won't go away. As a person-centred counsellor, I offer empathy and respect, calm and perspective. In our sessions, I am alongside you, as we uncover the root of the issue and find your way through I specialise in family dynamic and childhood issues. Why? Because often we follow a blueprint, that's years out of date. Counselling is a non-judgemental place for you to explore and understand the difficulties you experience. Non-judgemental means space to unscramble all the thoughts that crowd you, and hear what you really want. Freeing ourselves of critical thoughts or expectations takes effort - but it's worth it.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) is proud to provide inpatient, community and specialist mental health care for over 71,000 people across Birmingham and Solihull and the West Midlands. Our services include rehabilitation, addiction, secure care, home treatment, assertive outreach, early intervention, place of safety and wellbeing. We also manage the delivery of mental health care in HMP Birmingham. With 5,300 staff working across 40 sites - and serving a culturally and socially diverse population of 1.3 million people – we are one of the biggest and most complex mental health trusts in the country.

Improving Lives Notts

Improving Lives is the local Nottingham charity offering an individualised service supporting adults with complex health and social needs. Put simply this means we aim to help people live independent, fulfilling lives. All of the people we support suffer with mental illness and or learning disabilities, many have long term physical health problems combined with issues such as debt, poverty, housing issues, substance misuse and offending. A large percentage of people we support don't meet the thresholds for other services, either due to cuts, a change in the criteria for support or due to the complexity of their needs. A small number of people we work with have a package of care from Adult Social Care but this doesn't always cover their full range of needs, such as housing, debt and benefits. In community mental health care, community psychiatric nurses are often only able to support with mental health needs so physical health issues, housing and finance problems may not be resolved. We are based and work in Nottingham City. We are managed by a board of eight trustees who include a local psychiatrist, a director of a local law firm, an accountant and a service user consultant. Our dedicated staff team includes three social workers and a BACP registered counsellor, all staff are professionals with a mix of voluntary and statutory service experience. We achieve our aims by providing individuals with a comprehensive, personalised service that meets their needs. Our service looks at the whole of the person's needs and tries to resolve their basic needs whilst supporting them to engage with services at the same time. We initially meet people in their homes and talk to them about what changes they want to make in their life; together we form a plan and work through it. Once we have worked through a person's action plan, they are offered a trained volunteer befriender if appropriate and to join in our fortnightly facilitated social groups.

CAPITAL PROJECT TRUST

CAPITAL Project Trust is run by and for people with mental health problems. We are a West Sussex wide charity offering peer support, social and creative activities, led by and for people with lived experience. We work to coproduce and influence local mental health services and deliver training from a lived experience perspective.

Stellar Mind

Our mission is to inspire a workplace culture where people work together in achieving fantastic results and growing their business in a happy environment. There is support and encouragement and a work life balance are revered. We strongly believe that importance should be given to health and wellbeing in the workplace. We have a strong desire to improve mental health in our lives. We all have mental health, just as we all have physical health, unfortunately there is still a stigma that exists which makes it hard for people to talk about their mental health. Whilst we are all having conversations about mental health, there is still a long way to go. Stress, anxiety and depression are the biggest cause of sickness absence in our society. Mental ill health is responsible for 91 million working days lost every year in the UK. One in four people will experience some form of mental health condition, mental health issues have a huge impact on a person's ability to work effectively. Employers have a duty of care towards their staff, so it is important to spot the early signs of mental health problems and have adequate support in place to support them. Together with MHFA England we can offer support and training.