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Marches Counselling Service
Professional, Empathetic, and Affordable Counselling in Hereford
Marches Counselling Service (MCS) is a charity offering counselling and psychotherapy for people whose mental wellbeing is suffering and who feel talking with a counsellor could help them manage difficult times in their lives. We provide a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space where you can explore challenges, gain new perspectives, and begin to feel more comfortable with yourself.
Our counsellors support people experiencing issues including anxiety, depression, bereavement, trauma, phobias, self-harm, anger, relationship difficulties, low confidence, stress, emotional distress, and more.
Together, you and your counsellor can explore what has brought you to where you are now, how situations are affecting you, and what changes may help you move forward. Counselling can help you develop coping skills, understand yourself more clearly, improve relationships, and feel more able to manage life’s challenges.
Therapy Approaches and Modes
Our counsellors may utilise a range of therapeutic approaches, including but not limited to the following:
A form of psychotherapy that facilitates personal discovery, healing and emotional health by combining art making and therapeutic dialogue. The “art” in art therapy is seen as a vehicle of expression. It doesn’t require for you to be an artist or consider yourself good at art. What it offers is an way of exploring your inner experience & expressing yourself. In addition to a depth understanding of the art process art psychotherapists have skills and experience similar to other therapeutic modalities such as counselling and verbal psychotherapy. Read more about art therapy from
Usually short term collaborative work which helps a person to develop new skills and coping mechanisms. The person learns how to recognise and understand how difficult thoughts and behaviours arise. They can then practise the techniques to manage their feelings and responses more successfully.
Non-directive, focusing on the client’s own values, where the client is regarded as the expert on himself. The client’s self-awareness and sense of self-worth is developed through the relationship with the counsellor. The best way out of difficulties will be one unique to the individual. The work is generally ‘Person Centred’ and will often focus on the whole of the individual’s experiences, thoughts, feelings and actions in the present. It is a route to self-development and growth.
Exploring patterns in a person’s life and how they are repeating themselves in the present. It examines the emotions which may be keeping us stuck and explores how we might change their influence. It focuses upon the relationships we have developed with ourselves and others, facilitating new understandings which give us more choice in how we move forward.
A humanistic and holistic therapy. One of its chief distinctions from more traditional Freudian analytical therapy is that it holds we have a “higher” as well as a “lower” unconscious, and that body, mind and feelings are closely connected. Through exploration of all these elements, sometimes through the use of imagery and visualisation, it is possible to understand the patterns that we find ourselves repeating and to move towards uncovering our true potential.
Helps people who are unhappy in their relationship with one another find a way through to better communication. It is not limited to people who are married, but can help in any close relationship. It is about finding common ground and respecting individual difference, enabling better choices to be made and helping people feel more comfortable about their way forward, whatever that might be.
MBCT has been used successfully with people experiencing depression and a range of emotionally stressful situations. It helps us to relate differently to our negative thoughts and feelings. Mindfulness encourages us to develop our willingness to experience life, and our capacity to engage with things that are difficult. It can give us the courage to allow distressing moods, emotions, thoughts and sensations to come and go, without using up our energy to battle against them.
Exploring difficult situations in our lives, with others who share some similar experiences. It can initially be very challenging to be in the group situation as we may already be struggling with feelings of alienation from others or the opposite, feeling too dependent. However, as it is often our experience of the family or social group which has created these difficulties, it is in a group that we may best find a new way of being with others.
Is a highly positive and practical integrative therapeutic approach. Broadly, Gesalt practioners help people to focus on their immediate thoughts, feelings and behaviour and to better understand the way they relate to others. This increased awareness can help people to find a new perspective, see the bigger picture and start to effect changes.
Additionally, we offer sessions across a variety of modes or formats to best suit your needs:
Becoming a Client
We understand that making first contact for counselling can feel difficult, so we aim to make the process as straightforward and supportive as possible.
You can self-refer by completing a simple form, found by clicking the button below. Once we receive your details and assessment payment, we will arrange a first appointment with an assessor, usually within 2 to 3 weeks.
Assessments and counselling sessions are available face-to-face in Hereford, Bromyard, and Ross-on-Wye, as well as online for those who find it difficult to travel.
Following the assessment, we match each client with a counsellor suited to their needs and circumstances.
For more information, we encourage you to get in touch through our Contact page. Alternatively, you can click below to begin your Request for New Services.
Professional BACP Accreditation
MCS is fully accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and our counsellors have BACP accredited qualifications or are working towards them— or they are registered with an equivalently established body relevant to their practice.
Thoughts from our Counsellors
It was life changing for me. Things I had taken for granted in myself, about the world were challenged, but gently, so I became much more confident.
Self-Help Toolkit
The resources on this page are intended to offer some ideas about how you can help yourself.
These resources are not a replacement for therapy, but might be helpful if you are not currently seeing a counsellor, whilst you are thinking about contacting us or in the brief period before your assessment or appointment.
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Get in Touch Today
At Marches Counselling Service, we offer low costs, professionally certified staff, an empathetic approach, in-person and virtual appointments, and wait times much shorter than the industry standard. If you are in need of support, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You don’t have to face things alone.
Appointments
Available M-F during daytime, in person or online.
There is limited evening & weekend availability.
