Welcome to Help Counselling. We provide structured, high-quality, and clinically supervised counselling placements for trainee counsellors and psychotherapists who are looking to build their clinical hours. Working with us offers you an invaluable opportunity to gain experience alongside a collaborative, deeply supportive team of experienced practitioners, all while contributing meaningfully to the mental well-being of the wider community.
What Our Counselling Placements Offer
We pride ourselves on offering a structured and nurturing environment where you can safely translate your academic knowledge into confident, ethical therapeutic practice. Our counselling placements are built around three core pillars of professional growth
- Diverse Clinical Experience: Work with a broad range of clients and presenting issues, gaining invaluable experience in real-world therapeutic settings.
- Expert Group Supervision: Receive regular, fortnightly clinical supervision in small groups (maximum of 4 trainees) led by our highly experienced supervisors.
- A Supportive Peer Community: Connect with fellow trainees and our wider professional team in a collaborative, non-judgemental environment.
Our Placement Requirements
To maintain our high standards of clinical care for our clients and to ensure a rewarding experience for our trainees, all applicants for our counselling placements must meet the following baseline criteria
- Current enrolment on a Level 4 (or equivalent/above) accredited counselling or psychotherapy training course.
- Student membership with BACP, UKCP, or an equivalent professional body
- Readiness-to-practice approval from your training institution
- Proof of professional indemnity insurance (minimum £1m coverage)
- A minimum 12-month commitment to see at least three clients per week
- Engagement in your own weekly personal therapy throughout the placement
- Two satisfactory references, including one from your course tutor
- A successful DBS check prior to starting client work
- Attend an induction prior to starting client work
- A monthly contribution of £30 towards your mandatory group supervision and other costs associated with your placement
Apply for a counselling placement
Want to join our team? We would love to hear from you! Please use our online application forms to submit your details.
Please note: We are currently only accepting applications from counsellors able to work remotely for at least the first nine months. Applications that do not meet this requirement will not be processed at this time.
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Our Counselling Services
To provide ethical, effective, and accessible care, our clinical work is structured across two distinct pathways. This model ensures clients are matched with the appropriate level of support and allows our counsellors to work within a clear, well-defined professional framework.
Help Counselling
The cornerstone of our community mission, this is our low-cost service delivered by our counsellors in training. Trainees work with clients who have been assessed and deemed suitable for this pathway, providing an invaluable opportunity to develop clinical skills in a robustly supported environment. This service is underpinned by mandatory fortnightly supervision from our senior team, ensuring the highest standards of practice and care.
Help Counselling Plus
Our standard-rate service, delivered by our team of experienced, qualified counsellors. This pathway is designed for clients seeking a practitioner with extensive clinical experience or specialist expertise, as well as for those presenting with more complex needs. Our senior practitioners are an integral part of our professional community, contributing their depth of knowledge to our overall clinical excellence.
