Emotional help for you and your family

If you are not able to attend our offices in Ossett for face-to-face counselling but would like to have counselling sessions, we do offer counselling via Zoom with our counsellors. If you would like more information about this then please call our office on 01924 562252 or email us via the link below: email scard

SCARD and CADD offer free counselling at our Ossett offices in Yorkshire. Our counselling room has been specifically designed to provide a comfortable, quiet and non-threatening environment to get the best out of counselling sessions. All of our counsellors have completed at least two years of a BACP-approved counselling certificate course and are undergoing continuing career development for education and counselling experiences.

Counselling at SCARD is completely free of charge only when undertaken at our offices at the RCM Business Centre, Dewsbury Road, Ossett WF5 9ND. We are also happy to receive referrals from GPs or other healthcare professionals at our offices.

Sunday 17th November at 3pm at Leeds Minster, Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ

Oakleaf Service of Remembrance is a ceremony in which the names of loved ones are written down on a paper oak leaf and then placed on an altar and read out during the service. Photographs of loved ones are placed around the font and candles are lit for each person who has died. A commemorative quilt representing the lives of loved ones is hung on display throughout the service.

Produced by SCARD, our free downloadable booklets, ‘Helping Children Cope with a Death in the Family’ and ‘A Parents’ Guide to Grief’, provide helpful information to anybody who is grieving for a lost loved one.

For further information, please call us on 0345 123 5542 or click the link below to email us.

The death of a loved one under any circumstance is a deeply painful experience. But when the death of a loved one is due to a road traffic accident, the traumatic suffering and psychological effects are amplified because the death is sudden, unexpected, and violent.

Also, due to the circumstances of the loss the intense and painful effect of their bereavement often leaves the bereaved feeling completely overwhelmed and unable to cope. However, working through these feelings with a counsellor can help you navigate through your emotional turmoil and help you create a new awareness and understanding of your grief.

Our counsellors provide a non-directive form of talk therapy, the therapeutic approach focuses on the human capacity to overcome hardship, despair, and pain. Therefore, rather than being the expert and directing the therapy, the counsellor will provide empathy, understanding and non-judgemental support. There is no right or normal response to traumatic bereavement, the experience is personal to those bereaved.

Consequently, while been counselled, there will be a lot of emphasis on supporting you through some difficult emotions. But also helping you to call upon your own personal strengths, to explore potential solutions that are right for you. The counsellor may also draw on other therapies to create a tailored therapeutic approach, specifically for you.

• Service provided when you wish to make changes in your life.
• An opportunity to make sense of your individual circumstances.
• Contact with a therapist who helps identify the choices for change.
• Support for the individual during their process of change.
• The end result leaving you better equipped to cope in the future.

Counselling provides a safe and confidential environment where you can talk to a counsellor about your issues and concerns. Counselling is a proven process that helps you explore your feelings, and to relate to your thoughts differently to help you build emotional resilience. Your counsellor will help you explore your feelings, and thoughts to help you better understand yourself and help you find your own solutions to problems.

The aim of any talking treatment is your increased self-awareness, skill acquisition and independence. During therapy, you may develop some feelings of reliance upon the counsellor, although a normal reaction to the working relationship it may cause concern. The counsellor will maintain professional boundaries and knows how to help you deal with these feelings.

In line with the Data Protection Act 1998, everything discussed between you and the counsellor in your counselling session will be treated as confidential. However, there are certain legal exceptions, but these will be explained during your initial appointment.

Counselling at SCARD is completely free.

During the initial assessment you should trust your instinct because your relationship with the counsellor is at the heart of building a working therapeutic relationship. Having confidence in your practitioner is very important and will enable you to get the best out of the time you spend together. However, always remember you are the customer, and if you are unhappy with the counsellor ask to see another counsellor. However, this may necessitate you been put back on the waiting list.

Every effort will be made to see you at a time to suit you, but unfortunately, demand for our counselling service could result in you been put our waiting list. Nevertheless, every effort will be made for you to be provided with an appointment as quickly as possible.