Counselling Services
Ystradgynlais Mind currently provides a counselling service from Leighton Evans of Ask4Help who specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT can help you change how you think (cognitive) and what you do (behaviour). These changes can help you to feel better. Unlike some other talking treatments CBT focuses on the ‘here and now’ problems and difficulties. Instead of focusing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve your state of mind now.
CBT has proved helpful in Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Agoraphobia and other phobias: Social phobia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Schizophrenia.
Appointments are generally offered on Thursdays only. If you would like to make an appointment, please telephone us where an appointment can be arranged for you.
Volunteer Counsellors
Students who need a placement for their BAAC Accreditation are welcome. Students, however, must arrange for their own supervision – we are not in a position to offer this. Please contact us for more information.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Explanation of CBT from Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Online free CBT information, advice and training from Mood Gym.
Living Life to the Full
The Living Life to the Full course is a life skills course that aims to provide access to high quality, practical and user-friendly training in life skills. The course content teaches key knowledge in how to tackle and respond to issues/demands which we all meet in our everyday lives.
Fear Fighter
Fear Fighter is a new method for delivering CBT via a computer. Research has shown that FearFighter improves anxious or phobic patients about as much as face to face therapy. Free access can only be prescribed by your doctor in England and Wales.
Other useful sites
UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) 020 7014 9955
British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) 020 7267 3626
British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) 0870 443 5252
British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) 0161 797 4484