What Happens in Counselling and Therapeutic Play Sessions?

Counselling and therapeutic play are not the same as giving advice. The counsellor will help children and young people to focus on and understand more clearly, the things that are worrying them. Respecting their values, choices and lifestyle means that we work together with children and young people towards making choices or changes that feel right for each individual.

Sessions take place in a comfortable and private setting and usually last for 50 minutes

For children and young people domestic violence is:

* hard to talk about
* often secret
* confusing

and can make school, home and other situations hard to deal with.

Domestic violence can have long term emotional and psychological effects. The important thing to recognise is however, that children and young people can recover from their experiences. To support this process Acorns offers:

* counselling

* therapeutic play

* support for carers

Acorns aims to be an equal opportunities project and to provide appropriate services irrespective of:

* Ethnic origin
* culture gender
* disabilities
* sexual orientation

And it is free!