The YPC provides free, confidential counselling to young people aged 13 to 25 years old in Brighton and the surrounding area:
“The YPC is a very useful and helpful resource for young people. The whole atmosphere is relaxed. Everyone was friendly and approachable and provided important information”
First you need to contact the YPC Counselling Service to request an initial appointment before you can start your counselling sessions. You, or someone else on your behalf, can do this by:
Our counsellors are recruited from all walks of life and are qualified and experienced in counselling young people. They are not there to tell you what to do or to judge you. They are there to help you talk through any decisions, actions or choices you might want to make and to help you to find your own solutions and strengths.
Some things young people have said about us…
“I felt that it was my Me time and I could get a lot off my chest without being judged”
“It is often difficult to deal with issues, particularly in regard to mistakes you’ve made so it was beneficial to be listened to without being judged or made to feel worse”
“I found my counsellor very helpful and understanding. She made me feel comfortable and that I wasn’t abnormal or different. I was able to see my problems and deal with them properly in my own time.
Counselling provides you with a safe, private space in which to talk about anything that’s bothering you. It can be to explore a difficulty that you are facing in your life at the moment or in the past, some distress that you are experiencing or a loss of purpose or direction. Nothing is too large or too small.
Bottled up feelings such as anger, fear, embarressment, anxiety, guilt or loss and sadness can become very intense, so we find that having the opportunity to talk about them to someone who isn’t a close family member, friend or partner, can often make these feelings easier to understand and cope with.
“It’s good for young people to have somewhere to go and talk, I find it hard to talk to people but my counsellor made it feel easy, thank you for your help”
“I felt comfortable speaking to someone who was completely separate from my issues. I did not always want to go into too much detail regarding certain issues but I was never pushed”
“I found it painful to face my feelings but in the end it was a necessary and helpful process”
These are some of the ways that counselling can help
“I really didn’t know what to expect from counselling and didn’t know whether it could help me. Now I’ve just finished my 12 sessions I feel better than I expected. It has given me so much more confidence and I am actually starting to like who I am. I haven’t felt like this in a long time!”
“Counselling has helped me to move on and not blame myself, I believe in myself and can do things that I was afraid of before”
You can talk to your counsellor about anything you like but to give you some idea…
The YPC is a safe place where you can talk in private and we won’t tell anyone what you’ve said.
However, there may be some very exceptional circumstances where we feel you need to get help from elsewhere. If you, or someone else, are at risk of serious harm, we may need to seek the support of other agencies. We will support you to get the help you need.
If you visit the YPC we will ask you for a few personal details for our records, but these will not be given or passed on to anyone without your consent.
We are very interested in YPC Counselling Questionnaire 2010 here at the project and we would like to know if you found it helpful or not so that we can make our service better in the future. So... ANY of your comments, whether positive or negative, would be very useful to us.
The YPC has drop-in sessions three times a week.
Each day has it's own scheduled:
Drop-ins are an easy and friendly way for young people to use the YPC:
Buy a meal and a drink for under 50p!
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