Here4You also provides support to secondary school and college staff in order to promote wellbeing. Our qualified counsellors are trained in the humanistic approach, which allows them to provide a professional, evidence-based service in collaboration with the young person and school staff.

Counselling in schools is a very accessible and acceptable way for young people to receive the support they need. It can play a key role in early intervention and proactively change the lives of students allowing them to build resilience and obtain life goals.

Here4You offers the following key services:

  • Individual counselling
  • Staff support/Supervision
  • Responding to on-site crisis/emergency with counselling provision both individual and group
  • Group work
  • Peer Support Training
  • Staff training, reflexive groups and consultation
  • Rapid response

Increasing evidence suggests that school-based humanistic counselling is effective at reducing psychological distress and helping young people achieve their personal goals. The approach is founded on person-centred assumptions and makes use of social psychology research to help young people become more attuned with their authentic feelings, wants and needs, enhancing their capacity to identify, manage, and overcome distresses arising from challenging situations.

It is a flexible intervention that can be adapted depending on problem severity and personal capacity, and has been evaluated positively by students and school staff as an effective means of bringing about improvements in students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing.

The Hear4You Story

Here4You was established following a successful Randomised Control Trial (RCT) of school-based counselling led my Metanoia Institute. The study followed a randomized controlled design and was nested within schools that did not have an established counselling service; a headline outcome was that schools taking part in the study wanted to establish a counselling service provided by the Metanoia Institute study team. Here4You subsequently came into being as a unique, evidence-based school counselling service.

Here4You aims to offer a ‘best fit’ service for each individual school, providing a professional, evidence-based service in collaboration with young people and school staff. In turn, it can provide young people a space to express and explore their thoughts and feelings, develop social interaction skills, improve self-image and confidence, and identify avenues for change.

Should you wish to learn more about the Here4You service, please complete this form

Alternatively, you can contact Rita Moran, Schools Counselling Liaison Officer, rita.moran@metanoia.ac.uk

Aims of Here4You

The General Aims of Here4You Include:

  • Offering a ‘best fit’ service for each individual school
  • Being integrated into the broader pastoral care service provided
  • Involving young people in partnership in all levels of the service
  • Providing a professional, evidence based service in collaboration with the young people and school staff
  • Building trusting relationships with students and staff
  • Expressing and exploring thoughts and feelings
  • Developing social interaction skills
  • Improving self-image and self-confidence
  • Identifying avenues for change
Hear4You Staff