What do we offer?
The Chelmsford Counselling Foundation (CCF), formerly Writtle Pastoral Foundation, offers counselling to individuals and couples who have personal or psychological difficulties. Counsellors at the Foundation are professionally trained in the psychodynamic approach to counselling.

The Foundation is based in Chelmsford and is a member of the Westminster Pastoral Foundation network, by whom its work is validated. The Westminster Pastoral Foundation network is the largest general counselling service in Britain and, as the foremost institution for training counsellors, plays a leading role in setting ethical and professional standards in this field. The Foundation is a charity working closely with medical and social welfare agencies, including the District Health Authority.


The need
People come to the Foundation with a very wide range of difficulties, for example as a result of depression, anxiety, loneliness or the challenge of life's circumstances. For some, memories about the past, painful events in the present, or worries about the future may mean they cannot enjoy life or achieve their aims.


How counselling can help
Psychodynamic counselling provides an opportunity to explore problems with someone trained to listen in a non directive way and to facilitate the person's own resources for change and resolution of difficulties. It aims to assist people to understand how past experience and current behaviour may be linked and leads to a more creative self understanding. It allows space to explore in an individual or group setting, or as a couple, thoughts and feelings about oneself and relationships with others.

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