a space to be heard

counselling@unit12 is a collaboration of wellbeing and mental health practitioners.

Our practitioners are all duly accredited and registered within the professional bodies associated with their field.  If you need a place to be heard, please do get in touch.

counselling

Our counsellors, have experience in many areas of counselling for adults, children and young people.

If you are looking for counselling in or around Winchester for a specific issue such as abuse, anxiety, bereavement or depression, or are looking for someone to help you discover who you really are, our counsellors offer a safe space to be heard.

counselling@unit12 is LGBTQ+ welcoming and supportive.

What is counselling

Your mind can be a limitless place. Emotional pain, either current or residual from childhood, can also feel limitless. Like waves in a stormy sea, anxiety can overwhelm you. The desperation, or numbness of depression can feel wider and longer than the barren wasteland of any desert.  Even in such limitlessness we can feel trapped, rooted to the very spot, unable to turn, to even consider another step forward as if the whole world was a constant loop. Whatever your pain or difficulty is you are welcome here.

As a species, we are storytellers and we long to belong. We communicate all the time, we tell stories to each other and to ourselves. We are looking for connection and a way to make sense of reality. Counselling is a space where you can tell your story, where you can talk, draw or simply sit with someone who is there for you. It is not necessarily an easy process. To face the pain, fear, boredom, or whatever brings you to counselling, can be difficult. To risk telling your reality, the vulnerable story, can be painful. But every part of you is welcome in counselling, all of you has a space to be heard.

Whatever reason that brings you to this page, if nothing else, please take away the possibility that there is help out there. It might not be one of us, but someone will be able to hear and understand what it is like for you. In connection, research tells us, there is meaning and hope.

 Are you a therapist who needs a comfortable place to meet clients?

counselling@unit12 offers a number of shared therapy rooms, located in this popular community building in Winchester. With the rooms already being used by a number of other therapists, our goal is to create a supportive community for everyone who makes use of the therapy rooms.