This list is collated by the University of Warwick Counselling and Psychotherapy Services

Counselling via the NHS

Counselling is available through the NHS via your doctor/GP (General Practitioner). You can find out more on the NHS website:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Counselling/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Counselling and CBT are also available through the NHS via Talking Therapies (formerly IAPT, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) for people with mild, moderate and moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety or depression living in Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire. You can contact the service directly yourself or you can be referred by your GP:

https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/iapt

If you are not registered with a GP locally, you can find out which is your local IAPT service from the following website:

https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-psychological-therapies-service/

Local free or reduced fee counselling/wellbeing services options:

MIND – up to 8 sessions coping strategies: https://cwmind.org.uk/pathfinder

MIND – other information: https://cwmind.org.uk/coventry-wellbeing-hub/

Lighthouse Christian Counselling: https://lighthousechristiancare.co.uk/

New Hope Christian Counselling: https://www.newhopecounselling.org.uk/

(to the best of our knowledge, you do not have to be Christian to access the Christian counselling services, and they do not talk about religion unless you want to)

Coventry Tamarind Centre – holistic health and wellbeing support service for BME Communities in Coventry: http://www.tamarindcentre.co.uk/index.html

Coventry Refugee and Migrants’ Centre – specialist emotional and mental health services for asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants: https://www.covrefugee.org/therapy-services

Private counselling/psychotherapy

The following professional counselling and psychotherapy organisations' websites can be used to find counsellors and psychotherapists working privately. Some have reduced fees or sliding scale of fees options. For information about the different types of therapy, see https://warwick.ac.uk/services/wss/topics/rangeofmodels/

Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) (Find a Therapist service for young people up to and including the age of 25, who are interested in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy): https://childpsychotherapy.org.uk/fat

Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT): http://www.acat.me.uk/page/home

Black, African and Asian Therapy Network: https://www.baatn.org.uk/

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP): http://www.itsgoodtotalk.org.uk

British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP):

http://www.babcp.com/Default.aspx

British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC): https://www.bpc.org.uk

British Psychological Society (BPS): http://www.bps.org.uk

College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT): http://www.cosrt.org.uk

Institute of Psychoanalysis (Low Fee Scheme):

https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/

https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/iopa-clinics/low-fee-scheme

Relate (various forms of relationship counselling) (Coventry): https://www.relatecoventry.org/

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP): http://www.ukcp.org.uk/

West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy (Adult Jungian and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy)

https://wmip.org/about-us/

https://wmip.org/find-a-psychotherapist/

 

The University of Warwick and its employees cannot be held responsible for the content of websites or any subsequent counselling/psychotherapy provided.