Counselling for Children & Young People

Our Youth Service offers counselling to children and young people who are experiencing difficulties. These may stem from changes in family life such as separation, divorce / remarriage, developments within stepfamilies, illness, loss or bereavement. Or there may be worries about how to support a troubled adolescent, a child experiencing bullying or a child or young person in the family finding it hard to make friends or become more independent.

Trained and Professional

Supervised

Available for ages 5-18

£70 Per Session

Available in Stroud, Cheltenham, and Gloucester

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Are you worried about any of the following:
self-harm

family and relationship issues

suicidal feelings

loss or bereavement

assault or controlling behaviour

disordered eating

anxiety and depression

loneliness

angry and aggressive behaviour

exam anxiety

social media concerns

identity

building healthy attachments

At GCS, we work with parents, children and young people in a wide range of circumstances, including with those who can’t pinpoint an obvious cause for their difficulties but who are nevertheless worried and finding it hard to share their feelings and talk things through. Our counsellors offer a confidential space where they can think about and talk through their concerns.

We sometimes work with families in liaison with other agencies, including Social Services. As with every case, we will conduct a clinical assessment before deciding whether we can offer Counselling.

In cases with multi-agency involvement, we will discuss our roles and responsibilities and the fees involved and set these out in a Service Level Agreement.

If you are a professional seeking input from our services, please contact the Clinical Service Managers using the email [email protected] to discuss your referral further.

Accessing counselling

To begin counselling with us:

Complete our short registration form here and pay a non-refundable registration fee of £10.
We will contact you or a parent/carer (usually by email) for some more information and then to book the first assessment appointment. This is usually a 50 minute in person session with a specialist GCS Therapist to talk through what brings the child/young person to counselling and whether it might help. Parent/carers can join this meeting if the child/young person would like them to. We charge £60 for this appointment or £35 if you are requesting a reduced fee slot, payable in advance.
Once we have completed the assessment, in most cases the same GCS Therapist will then contact you to arrange the weekly sessions, either in-person at the venue of your choosing or online. We like to offer consistency of therapist but this is not always possible.
For full fee clients we aim to offer an initial assessment within two weeks of receiving your completed registration, before a wait for ongoing counselling of up to two weeks. If you require a subsidised space, the wait may be considerably longer for assessment, but we aim to allocate you shortly after the assessment. The wait can currently be up to nine months as we have limited funding for these slots.

Our registration process is mainly automated, but if you need any help – including once you’ve registered for an update on waiting times – please contact us. Our office phone line is open between 10am and 2pm (Mon-Wed) and 10am and 1pm (Thurs/Fri).

Our Fees

GCS was founded to deliver accessible, high-quality counselling and psychotherapy. We are a not-for-profit charity and mainly rely on session fees to provide our service.

We ask those who can pay the full cost of counselling to do so and our standard weekly fee for open-ended child and adolescent counselling is £70. We also have a range of subsidised spaces between £45-£65. These spaces are subject to availability of funding and there is usually a longer waiting list for this service.

Are you worried about any of the following:

self-harm
family and relationship issues
suicidal feelings
loss or bereavement
assault or controlling behaviour
disordered eating
anxiety and depression

loneliness

angry and aggressive behaviour
exam anxiety
social media concerns
identity
building healthy attachments

We work with parents, children and young people in a wide range of circumstances, including with those who can’t pinpoint an obvious cause for their difficulties but who are nevertheless worried and finding it hard to share their feelings and talk things through. Our counsellors offer a confidential space where they can think about and talk through their concerns.

As with every case, we will conduct a clinical assessment before deciding whether we can offer Counselling.

In cases with multi-agency involvement, we will discuss our roles and responsibilities and the fees involved and set these out in a Service Level Agreement.

If you are a professional seeking input from our services, please contact the Clinical Service Managers using the email [email protected] to discuss your referral further.

Accessing counselling

To begin counselling with us:

Complete our short registration form here and pay a non-refundable registration fee of £10.
We will contact you or a parent/carer (usually by email) for some more information and then to book the first assessment appointment. This is usually a 50 minute in person session with a specialist GCS Therapist to talk through what brings the child/young person to counselling and whether it might help. Parent/carers can join this meeting if the child/young person would like them to. We charge £60 for this appointment or £35 if you are requesting a reduced fee slot, payable in advance.
Once we have completed the assessment, in most cases the same GCS Therapist will then contact you to arrange the weekly sessions, either in-person at the venue of your choosing or online. We like to offer consistency of therapist but this is not always possible.
For full fee clients we aim to offer an initial assessment within two weeks of receiving your completed registration, before a wait for ongoing counselling of up to two weeks. If you require a subsidised space, the wait may be considerably longer for assessment, but we aim to allocate you shortly after the assessment. The wait can currently be up to nine months as we have limited funding for these slots.

Our registration process is mainly automated, but if you need any help – including once you’ve registered for an update on waiting times – please contact us. Our office phone line is open between 10am and 2pm (Mon-Wed) and 10am and 1pm (Thurs/Fri).

Our Fees

GCS was founded to deliver accessible, high-quality counselling and psychotherapy. We are a not-for-profit charity and mainly rely on session fees to provide our service.

We ask those who can pay the full cost of counselling to do so and our standard weekly fee for open-ended child and adolescent counselling is £70. We also have a range of subsidised spaces between £45-£65. These spaces are subject to availability of funding and there is usually a longer waiting list for this service.

Our Therapists

All of our Counsellors bring with them relevant training and experience and deliver a professional, high-quality service. Our qualified Counsellors commit to working towards accreditation with registering bodies and many have already gained this level of recognition.

We are proud of our BACP service accreditation for our adult service, and we plan to continue to work towards accreditation of our Child and Family as well as our Schools services.

Trained and Professional

Supervised

Locations

Stroud

Gloucester

Cheltenham

Counselling for Children & Young People

We sometimes work with families in liaison with other agencies, including Social Services. As with every case, we will conduct a clinical assessment before deciding whether we can offer Counselling.

In cases with multi-agency involvement, we will discuss our roles and responsibilities and the fees involved and set these out in a Service Level Agreement.

If you are a professional seeking input from our services, please contact the Clinical Service Managers using the email [email protected] to discuss your referral further.

Accessing counselling

To begin counselling with us:

Complete our short registration form here and pay a non-refundable registration fee of £10.

Once we have completed the assessment, in most cases the same GCS Therapist will then contact you to arrange the weekly sessions, either in-person at the venue of your choosing or online. We like to offer consistency of therapist but this is not always possible.

Our registration process is mainly automated, but if you need any help – including once you’ve registered for an update on waiting times – please contact us. Our office phone line is open between 10am and 2pm (Mon-Wed) and 10am and 1pm (Thurs/Fri).

Our Fees

GCS was founded to deliver accessible, high-quality counselling and psychotherapy. We are a not-for-profit charity and mainly rely on session fees to provide our service.

Are you worried about any of the following:

self-harm

family and relationship issues

suicidal feelings

loss or bereavement

assault or controlling behaviour

disordered eating

anxiety and depression

loneliness

angry and aggressive behaviour

exam anxiety

social media concerns

identity

building healthy attachments

As with every case, we will conduct a clinical assessment before deciding whether we can offer Counselling.

In cases with multi-agency involvement, we will discuss our roles and responsibilities and the fees involved and set these out in a Service Level Agreement.

If you are a professional seeking input from our services, please contact the Clinical Service Managers using the email [email protected] to discuss your referral further.

Accessing counselling

To begin counselling with us:

Complete our short registration form here and pay a non-refundable registration fee of £10.

Once we have completed the assessment, in most cases the same GCS Therapist will then contact you to arrange the weekly sessions, either in-person at the venue of your choosing or online. We like to offer consistency of therapist but this is not always possible.

Our registration process is mainly automated, but if you need any help – including once you’ve registered for an update on waiting times – please contact us. Our office phone line is open between 10am and 2pm (Mon-Wed) and 10am and 1pm (Thurs/Fri).

Our Fees

GCS was founded to deliver accessible, high-quality counselling and psychotherapy. We are a not-for-profit charity and mainly rely on session fees to provide our service.

Our Therapists

All of our Counsellors bring with them relevant training and experience and deliver a professional, high-quality service. Our qualified Counsellors commit to working towards accreditation with registering bodies and many have already gained this level of recognition.

We are proud of our BACP service accreditation for our adult service, and we plan to continue to work towards accreditation of our Child and Family as well as our Schools services.

Locations