New Booklet From Local Charity To Help Improve Access
To Therapy In North Yorkshire

            Ryedale Counselling Service has produced a new booklet, 'About our services' to help improve access to counselling in Ryedale and Scarborough. The eight-page booklet gives information about counselling, what services are available and how to access them1.

            The booklet will be distributed to doctors' surgeries across Ryedale and in Norwood House surgery in Scarborough. Copies will also be sent to all clients who are referred to the service or who refer themselves. An electronic version of the booklet is also available on the charity's website - www.ryedalecounselling.org.uk

As well as providing brief therapy2, Ryedale Counselling Service also provides long term counselling3 for survivors of sexual abuse and/or domestic violence as well as a Telephone Counselling service for people who find it difficult to travel to its counselling venues.

            Ryedale Counselling Service provides counselling at Ryedale Community House, Malton and at four GP surgeries across Ryedale (Derwent Practice, Pickering Medical Practice, Helmsley Health Centre and Sherburn Surgery) as well as at  Norwood House Surgery.

            Stephen Robling4, Counselling Service Manager said: "The new booklet, which has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Awards for All5, will provide people with useful information about counselling and how to access our services.  We hope it will encourage more people to refer themselves6 to the service. We are also very grateful to Barrie Tuck of Kirkbymoorside Camera Club who has taken and donated all of the beautiful images of local scenes which appear throughout the booklet."

  1. Clients can be referred by their GP; any other NHS worker; any other statutory body or voluntary agency e.g. Citizens Advice Bureau, Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale MIND or Scarborough & Ryedale Carers Resource.

  2. This service is supported by the Big Lottery Fund and a smaller grant from NHS North Yorkshire and York.

  3. This service is made possible by a three-year grant from the Henry Smith Charity.

  4. For any queries please call Stephen Robling on 07584 253 561.

  5. Awards for All is part of the Big Lottery Fund.

  6. People can refer themselves in three ways: Telephone: 01653 690 124

E-mail: counsellors@rva-cvs.org.uk

Post: Ryedale Community House, Wentworth Street, Malton, YO17 7BN.

Using the self-referral form on the website: www.ryedalecounselling.org.uk

Stephen Robling.