The Monday Meetups group visited the Imperial War Museum in April – read more below Happy Spring from Waterloo Community Counselling! Happy Easter, Ramadan Mubarak and Chag Sameach to those who recently celebrated passover. We hope you enjoyed the Bank Holiday…
“Thank you very much – the meetings are good, I just wish they were twice a month!” Ahmed, one of the Monday Meetups service users. February 7th The MECS Monday Meetups group got together for the very first time on a…
Happy International Volunteer Day! Hello, my name is Molly and for the last few months I have been completing some work experience/ volunteering at Waterloo Community Counselling! Firstly, a little bit about me! I am currently completing a Psychology MSc…
Mental Health Awareness Week Mental Health Awareness Week has been running all this week, from 10th – 16th May. This year the theme for Nature. At Waterloo Community Counselling we are encouraging our staff team to spend some time in…
In the second edition of our “Ask a Counsellor” series we spoke to David Gill. David is a qualified psychotherapist who has worked with us at Waterloo Community Counselling for a few years. He also runs his own private practice: …
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…
