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Posts Tagged ‘counselling’

We’ve won an award!

A certificate from ghp proclaiming the Amethyst Centre as winner of the Complementary Healthcare Organisation 2023

Well how about that! We’ve won an award! The ghp award for Best Complementary Healthcare Organisation 2023! This is for our support of people who need help with their mental health, which we do by providing cosy rooms for counsellors and other therapists to practice from. We also help them by providing case study treatments…

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Changes to Pricing Structure

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Now the Centre is back open again, and we can see what is required more clearly, we have reviewed our pricing structure. The decision has been taken to reduce the room hire rates for two of the rooms. For the Carnelian and Celestine rooms, the price is reverting to £10 per hour, with a daily…

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Despite it all, amazingly we’re still here!

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Despite everything that has happened over the last year, all the lockdowns, all the suffering with Covid and Long Covid, we’re still here. Despite it all, there is still a lot going on at the Centre, and we are opening back up slowly but surely. We are a Covid-safe place, we take your health and…

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Why choose to work from the Amethyst Centre?

Earlier this year a firm of physiotherapists visited the Centre and decided to move their Coventry base to the Centre. I was intrigued by this and keen to know their reasons for actually moving from one place in Coventry to another, so I asked them. One of their key points was that the Centre is…

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What is CBT?

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Our student CBT counsellor, Ben Warden, is available mornings and Saturdays for sessions. He wrote this piece for us on his therapy and what he can do for you. If you’d like to see him, please contact the Centre. As he is still a student, we ask that you pay his room hire fees which…

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Welcome to Sharon Fereday

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The Centre takes its counselling provision very seriously. We are really pleased that Sharon Fereday works from the Centre, as it means we can ensure that our student counsellors have on-side supervision. Here’s what she says about herself: Hi I’m Sharon a therapist originally trained in CBT, now working in an eclectic style (drawing from…

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CBT comes to the Amethyst Centre

We’re really pleased to welcome Ben Warden to the team in the Centre later this month. Ben is a student CBT practitioner and is looking for case studies to complete his qualification. If you, or if you know of someone who has been told CBT would help them but who needs to see someone privately,…

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Free counselling via The Hummingbird Centre

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We are pleased to welcome Juliette from the Hummingbird Centre to the Amethyst Centre on Thursday afternoons from next week, to provide free counselling for cancer patients and their families. This is what they say about what they offer people: A cancer diagnosis and the effects of treatment can have a significant impact on your…

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Successful trials!

We are delighted that our trial of having a counsellor attached to the Centre has been successful and we are getting plenty of demand for counselling now. We have reviewed the provision and our service provision will be as follows. Starting from the 1st January, John Price will be with us on Thursday evenings. He…

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