CFC in schools
Support in primary and secondary settings
We work with many local schools offering in house mental health, counselling and wellbeing support for both children and teaching staff. CFC in Schools
Did you know... that we have an amazing team of 11 counsellors working in 12 schools supporting up to 122 children and young people per week during term time?
We are currently working in both primary and secondary schools, across Trafford, Manchester and North Manchester, but have also worked in colleges and universities.
We provide one to one counselling sessions as well as group sessions for children and young people in school settings, as well as counselling and supervision sessions for school staff and support for parents. In addition we provide training for school staff to help them be better informed in supporting the young people they work with and in self care and supporting colleagues too.
For example, we have delivered class sessions for students supporting them with coping with exam stress as well as online sessions for parents/carers to attend to help them support their children with exam stress.
We aim to be flexible to the needs of the schools we work in and can provide a bespoke service, for example, when a school has been particularly affected by bereavement, we have provided additional support in the form of extra individual sessions, group sessions as well as training and individual sessions for staff. We have also attended a revision event for yrs 7/8/9 pupils talking about the importance of sleep.
Our schools counsellors have all completed additional training to work with children and young people and they incorporate different age appropriate creative techniques such as sand tray, drawing, puppets and modelling to promote the safe exploration and processing of emotions in young people.
We're always working on extending our services in additional education settings and support more children and young people, so if you have any contacts who may be interested to hear about our schools services, please email sarah.barker@thecfc.org.uk.
