Counselling@SRC
Our counselling service offers women and girls up to 25 sessions of free one-to-one counselling on a weekly basis. We offer the service in Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Lowestoft, Leiston, and Brandon, or online video counselling. The specialist counselling service is open to anyone who identifies as a woman or girl aged 14 and over who have been affected in any way by sexual violence. This includes childhood sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault, coercive sexual violence within relationships, FGM or so-called ‘revenge porn’ (Image-based abuse). Whatever the sexual violence you have experienced, we are here to offer support. Whether you are a survivor of recent or historic sexual violence you can access our service and find a safe, supportive, non-judgmental environment.
The counselling team are all women and provide a space in which you can feel heard, validated and believed. The service provides a chance to explore what you have survived, the impact this may have had or is having on your day to day life, and help you find ways to move forward and let go of difficult feelings or coping behaviours that are no longer useful to you.
Outreach@SRC
Outreach@SRC is open to anyone who identifies as a woman or girl aged 14 and over who have been affected in any way by sexual violence and over who are survivors of any form of sexual violence across Suffolk.
- Outreach@SRC is a support service. An outreach worker can work alongside you on a range of practical issues that you feel you want to address to improve your emotional and physical wellbeing.
- You will be at the centre of the work, making choices about what is right for you.
- The emotional and practical support offered will be tailored to the needs you have identified with your Outreach Worker in your first meeting together.
- Outreach@SRC can offer an empowering space to work creatively and practically.
What can Outreach@SRC offer?
- To improve confidence & self-esteem.
- Reduce stress in various parts of your life and be able to feel in control of your choices.
- Support if you are feeling isolated.
- Support with social anxiety.
- Practical support to connect with voluntary/ statutory services.
- Access counselling; support groups; alternative therapies.
- Support with Benefits; debt; housing issues; money problems; budgeting.
- Exploring health; fitness; food plans; shopping; getting out & about.
- Getting back into education; courses.
- Support to attend appointments.
- Support with Criminal Justice System.
- Anything to make day to day life more manageable when you are not feeling it is
Your Outreach worker will work alongside you to achieve your goal/s, small or large, led by you and for you. Anything that you need to allow you to feel more in control and lessen your load….