Parents in Mind

When a parent is depressed or anxious children often lose out as our parenting ability may be affected.

Parents in Mind offer a free and confidential counselling service for parents experiencing emotional distress. This includes step-parents and those parents working towards children being returned to their care.

Our service is for those parents who find it difficult to use other services. Reasons for such difficulty can include:

• Mobility problems
• Severe anxiety
• Social/geographical isolation

We provide an accessible service for clients by using venues near to their home. In exceptional circumstances we may offer counselling within the home environment.

Our service is also available for parents who do not have accessibility issues but require parenting support as part of their counselling.

The support we offer to parents can involve one to one and/or group support and telephone support where appropriate.
Our aim is to help individuals to identify the roots of the issues they are struggling with, so that they can work towards improving their own mental health and parenting ability.

As a parent you can self refer to the service by telephoning us to discuss your needs.
Outside agencies can also refer into the service, providing the parent has consented for the referral to be made.

For further information please call the Parents in Mind Team on 01782 683136 or visit our 'contact us' page.

Useful Documents

Parents in Mind Leaflet (PDF)

Parents in Mind Referral Form