by wcprteam | Jan 13, 2026 | Counselling
At Westmeria Counselling Services, only around 20 percent of our clients are men. This figure often surprises people, yet it closely reflects what is happening across the UK. Nationally, just one in three therapy referrals are men. Despite growing awareness of mental...
by Westmeria Counselling | Jan 1, 2026 | Counselling, Mental Health, self-care
Healing isn’t linear. And from what I’ve learnt so far, it doesn’t get easier. It just hurts differently, in a different place, you heal one wound and find a new one. Sometimes wishing you found the one you currently tend to before the previous one you healed. But...
by Westmeria Counselling | Nov 4, 2025 | Counselling
I have always been curious about human behaviour. I dipped my toes in to the counselling study waters years ago, by enrolling in an introductory counselling course at my local adult education centre. Becoming a counsellor was never part of the plan, but the subject...
by Westmeria Counselling | Mar 6, 2025 | Counselling
I began my counselling journey in 2017 in which I tested the water with the introduction to counselling 10-week course through LSEC colleges. I didn’t know what to expect but knew I loved helping people and had volunteered in a mentoring capacity and thoroughly...
by Westmeria Counselling | Sep 1, 2021 | Counselling, Depression, Mental Health, self-care, Stress, Wellbeing
Have you ever had a thought of “I wish I couldn’t wake up? I can’t face it anymore!”. I had, but it was a temporary feeling of low mood with no intension to end my life. I consider myself the lucky one who was able to share my thoughts about difficulties of certain...
by Westmeria Counselling | Apr 27, 2021 | College, Counselling, Training
I had some feedback from one of my students recently regarding the CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in therapeutic counselling course she is studying on. It said: ‘Compared to my previous college I view this to be the Oxford/Cambridge equivalent of college courses and I feel...
