JAMIE CARGILL

COUNSELLING   SUPERVISION    TRAINING

As a school how do you feel about:

Referrals for your students being rejected?

Children and young people being left on waiting lists?

Children and young people having their referrals closed before they even see a counsellor?

In the last three years, the likelihood of young people having a mental health problem has increased by 50%. Now, five children in a classroom of 30 are likely to have a mental health problem. *1
34% of children and young people had their referral closed before they entered counselling with NHS Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) *2
Approximately 60% of children and young people are currently unable to access mental health services.*3
79% of parents who have children aged under 18 support
schools offering counselling. *4 

How does it work?

A bespoke service allows me to work as a counsellor in a school for an established period of time each week, determined by the school’s requirements. This integration allows the school to use the service flexibly, according to changing needs and priorities. Part of my role is to establish strong relationships that enable good communication and effective collaboration with all parties: counsellor, pupils, parents, and school staff, as appropriate.

There are many benefits to a school based counselling service. As well as primarily supporting children with their emotional well-being, integrating the expertise of a trained counsellor into your school’s support network extends the provision you can offer to your school's community.
There is growing recognition within the education community that schools need to address and support the emotional wellbeing of children and young people in their care more effectively. Failure to tackle issues early too often leads to children not reaching their potential, distracted by difficulties that become barriers to learning that could negatively impact their lives in profound and enduring ways. In contrast, providing targeted and developmentally appropriate support at the right time is likely to enhance a child’s resilience and build greater self-esteem and confidence.

As a school counsellor working onsite, I can help to build those relationships with young people who need to talk to someone, offering a confidential safe space so they can explore the many complex issues that a young person may be struggling with. 

What services do I offer?

INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS OF SIX SESSIONS OF COUNSELLING

This is an individual package where I can offer person-centred counselling to one student at your school. The sessions would take place in the school and we would have the opportunity to work together on the issues that the student wanted to, weekly for six weeks with individual 45 minute sessions. As their counsellor, I will listen to them in a private and confidential setting, offering them my full attention, respect and a commitment to supporting them in developing their own solutions, insights, awareness and answers to the issues that are important to them.

This is an individual package where I can offer person-centred counselling to one student at your school. The sessions would take place in the school and we would have the opportunity to work together on the issues that the student wanted to, weekly for six weeks with individual 45 minute sessions. As their counsellor, I will listen to them in a private and confidential setting, offering them my full attention, respect and a commitment to supporting them in developing their own solutions, insights, awareness and answers to the issues that are important to them.
Enquire Now
IN SCHOOL COUNSELLING SERVICE

With this service, I can spend a day, or more, inside your school every week of the academic year. Typically most schools have a timetable that will allow me to work with either five or six students each day. These students will then have access to individual 45 minute sessions, weekly for six weeks, so that we can work together on what issues they wanted to raise in counselling.
As well as counselling, I offer a drop-in service so that if a student that I was working with was not in school that day, the session would not be lost and could be used by another student.

With this service, I can spend a day, or more, inside your school every week of the academic year. Typically most schools have a timetable that will allow me to work with either five or six students each day. These students will then have access to individual 45 minute sessions, weekly for six weeks, so that we can work together on what issues they wanted to raise in counselling.
As well as counselling, I offer a drop-in service so that if a student that I was working with was not in school that day, the session would not be lost and could be used by another student.
Enquire Now
CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR SCHOOL STAFF

Clinical Supervision is an activity that brings two professional parties together in this case supervisor and you or your employee in order to reflect upon their practice.  Supervision aims to identify solutions to problems, to improve practice and increase understanding of issues within the workplace.

Clinical Supervision is an activity that brings two professional parties together in this case supervisor and you or your employee in order to reflect upon their practice.  Supervision aims to identify solutions to problems, to improve practice and increase understanding of issues within the workplace.
Enquire Now

For more information on how I can support your students, please contact me.

*1 - Good Childhood Report 2022 https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood
*2 - The Office of the Children’s Commissioner. The state of children’s mental health services. January 2020. https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cco-the-state-of-childrens-mental-health-services.pdf
*3 - Health and Social Care Committee - https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/2405/pdf/ 
*4 - The British Association of Counselling Practitioners - https://www.bacp.co.uk/news/news-from-bacp/2019/13-june-three-quarters-of-people-believe-schools-should-offer-counselling/
All Accessed 12th September 2023.