Lastly we hear from Sanchari who is sadly leaving the service in the New Year. She writes about her experiences of working at WCC and the importance of mother-tongue counselling for the refugee and asylum-seeking clients we support. I started…
Katia joined the team last year and sees clients who speak Russian, her native language. She also works with English speaking clients and is writing about her experiences of working with on particular referral. I am a migrant and a…
In celebration of International Migrants Day and in recognition of the importance of the work our counsellor do in supporting migrant communities in London, I invited 3 of the MECS Counsellors to write about their experiences of working with refugee,…
Today, our services shut for two weeks for the Christmas break. The 18th of December 2020 is also the 10th anniversary of International Migrants Day. Many people and organisations across the world mark International Migrants Day which was set up…
2020 has been an incredibly difficult year for everyone. It is now well established and understood that people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, Refugee and Asylum-seeking communities have faced the disproportionate brunt of suffering in regards to COVID-19. This…
Not only will this year be forever remembered as the one where public health and the global economy was bought to its knees by a pandemic, it will also be remembered as one of immense social, political and cultural upheaval. …
Ever wondered what is what like to be inside the mind of a therapist? Well think no further! In late November I was lucky to have a Zoom chat–cum-interview with ‘Desola, a counsellor in the Low Cost Service who’s been…
I am now very glad to hand over to Roslyn Byfield who is a counsellor in the team. She has written a particularly interesting blog about her experience of being a therapist during the pandemic and addresses the turbulent political…
The core, fundamental purpose and mission of a therapeutic counselling service is to listen, to support and to help heal. WCC has been doing that determinedly since its foundation in 1980s. However, we thought that it was high-time that we, as…
