YWCS provides one to one counselling to women who are experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties as a result of current or past emotional stress or trauma. Supporting women who need help, with one to one counselling when they need it, for as long as they need it, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Jenny[*] was a young woman who had grown up witnessing domestic abuse. Her mother died when she was 16 and due to lack of family support was forced to live on her own. Unfortunately she became involved with an abusive boyfriend who raped her and she had nobody to talk to. As a result of the traumas she experienced she developed a life changing physically debilitating illness and was no longer able to work.
Jenny[*] was a young woman who had grown up witnessing domestic abuse. Her mother died when she was 16 and due to lack of family support was forced to live on her own. Unfortunately she became involved with an abusive boyfriend who raped her and she had nobody to talk to. As a result of the traumas she experienced she developed a life changing physically debilitating illness and was no longer able to work.
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YWCS provides one to one counselling to women who are experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties as a result of current or past emotional stress or trauma. Our aim is to be there to support women who need our help, when they need it, for as long as they need it, regardless of their financial circumstances.
Our programmes are designed simply to provide the best and affordable counselling in a confidential and safe setting for women who are experiencing difficulties as a result of current or past emotional stress and trauma. We are the only organisation in York where the usual maximum of 6 sessions per person does not apply.
In the early 1980's a group of women in York opened a women's aid centre run by volunteers offering help and services to women in need. Two of the volunteers, themselves professional counsellors, identified the need for many women to receive professional counselling and so started an informal counselling service within the centre; this developed into the York Women's Counselling Service, established independently in 2000.
Grounding activities are generally short exercises which include our different senses, the aim is to make us feel more connected to our bodies and the ground beneath us. This stops us being so much 'in our heads' and getting caught up in a web of worries or anxieties. Just like no one technique works for all people, we often find that not all techniques work at all times.
Our work wouldn't be possible without our team of volunteer counsellors, our staff and our trustees. After completing an undergraduate degree in History & Politics and an MSc in Social Research, I realised that my passion lay in collaborative social impact projects. I have previous voluntary experience with Rape Crisis, and I currently work to improve access to higher education for underrepresented groups at the University of York.
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