Welcome Counselling Service

Welcome offers a range on confidential approaches to counselling and a variety of services to drug users including:

• Assessment and referral where necessary
• Counselling for drug users over the age of 11 years presenting with any drug related issues
• Counselling for parents of Drug Users
• Appointments at various venues throughout the borough

How to See a Counsellor

If you would like to meet with a counsellor, you can do this by either getting someone to contact WELCOME and speak to the triage worker or you can call into WELCOME directly and book an appointment yourself. 

Sessions can be held at various venues throughout Solihull or at Welcome.

Sessions will usually be held on a weekly basis and last for 1 hour, unless otherwise agreed.

Clients will be given the opportunity to review the counselling process at regular intervals and discuss whether changes need to be made to get maximum benefit.

Clients will be encouraged to make clear and specific agreements about the focus of the counselling and the outcomes they want to achieve, these agreements will be used as a basis of the reviews.

Case notes will be kept and these will be confidential to WELCOME.  The client will have the right to see the records whenever they want to.

What it Counselling?

Counselling provides a safe place to discuss your experiences and concerns.  This can help you make sense of your life and drug use in ways that encourage hope and change.  It is an opportunity for you to explore and understand yourself.

You may want to discuss your drug use, your relationships, your behaviour, your feelings or other concerns.  You may want to explore alternatives or possible changes.  The counsellor's aim is to help you to increase your chances of making  the changes that you want to make.

What Counselling is not!

Counselilng is not an opportunity for anyone to pry into your personal life, jusdge you or tell you what you should or should not be doing.  Nor is it a way for anyone to gather personal information about you to pass on to others.  You will not be laughed at or ridiculed and everything you say will be held in confidence.