An entry for the mindguide
Relate offers telephone and online counselling and can provide specialist counselling for a wide range of relationship issues. Telephone Counselling is just like having a face-to-face counselling session, except you’re talking to a trained counsellor over the phone. You can arrange counselling sessions whenever it’s convenient for you. They can provide specialist counselling for a wide range of relationship issues – not just couple relationships.
Oxford Mindfulness Foundation offers mindfulness courses run over eight weeks, which includes 2.25-hour classes per week and home practice. These courses help the general public to manage their mental health. Courses are accessed via self-referral. The Oxford Mindfulness team also train individuals to teach mindfulness.
This organisation also offers free daily mindfulness sessions, running twice daily, every week day.
They also have a free app available on any app store:
Oxford Men’s Counselling Service (OMCS) supports men (over 18) to explore issues relevant to them. The service works with men who may benefit from short or long-term counselling. The introductory session costs £20 and there is a charge on a sliding scale thereafter. Access to the service is by self-referral and enquirers are invited to leave their contact details on the voicemail. Counsellors are fully qualified or following an approved training course.
The Oxford Counselling Centre offers private counselling and hypnotherapy services. They can offer counselling in German, French and Polish. Counsellors are fully qualified or in their final year of training.
Oxford Counselling Centre is an organisational member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy so all counsellors adhere to the BACP ethical framework and guidelines. The Counsellors at Oxford Counselling Centre receive regular supervision and continuing professional development to ensure the highest standards of practice.
The Listening Centre is a low cost counselling service for people in East Oxford based in Blackbird Leys, Rose hill and Barton. The service is run by mainly trainee counsellors and psychotherapists. Many clients are signposted to the service by GP’s but all clients have to make contact themselves.
Cruse Bereavement Care Oxfordshire provides a range of services for people over 18 affected by bereavement, including face to face sessions with a Bereavement Support Volunteer, Bereavement support groups, Friendship groups and a Bereaved by Suicide support group run in conjunction with SOBS (Survivors of bereavement by suicide).
The Banbury Therapy Centre offers universal access to therapy which they promote as a positive and life affirming part of general health and well-being. They provide a wide range of psychological therapies including counselling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, family therapy, art therapy, addictions services, relationship counselling and victim support.
The British Psychoanalytic Council is the leading professional association for the psychoanalytic profession and a Professional Standards Authority accredited register. It publishes a register of practitioners who are required to follow its ethical code and meet its practice standards.
It promotes excellence in psychoanalytic thinking and psychotherapy; promotes the highest standards of training and research; and works to make psychoanalytic psychotherapy accessible to all.
The British Psychological Society is a registered charity and the representative body for psychology and psychologists in the UK. It is responsible for the promotion of excellence and ethical practice in the science, education, and application of the discipline.
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) are the leading organisation for the education, training, accreditation and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors in the UK. UKCP exist to promote and maintain high standards of practice of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic counselling for the benefit of the public throughout the United Kingdom.
