Our core offer provides a one to one counselling service for children and young people in primary and secondary schools across the whole of the clusters we work in.
Barca-Leeds are currently commissioned as part of the Mindmate Wellbeing service to deliver therapeutic services to children, young people and families for four Clusters across the city: Pudsey, BCM (Beeston Cottingley and Middleton), Headingley and Kirkstall, and JESS Cluster.
Referrals can only be made to the service following a decision at the regular multi-agency meetings convened in each cluster (usually known as Guidance and Support meetings). Referrals made to the Guidance and Support meeting for consideration are usually received directly from the schools in the cluster and via Mindmate following a GP or parental referral.
Once a referral has been agreed a member of our school counselling team from your child's cluster will be in contact. In the meantime, please see the Mindmate website for some useful resources which you can use with your child to prepare them for counselling.
If you have any questions about the service, please email us or give the service a call on 0113 220 9037.
Barca-Leeds’ Schools Clusters Counselling aims to improve social, emotional and mental health for children and young people living in Leeds.
This is done through a locally delivered and integrated approach, which is provided within school clusters across Leeds.
Barca-Leeds currently delivers a specialist counselling service in the following areas for children and young people: BCM (Beeston, Cottingley Middleton), JESS (Hunslet, Beeston, Belle Isle, Holbeck), Kirkstall & Headingley and Pudsey.
Our service offers 6-8 sessions of counselling for children and young people. Sessions are arranged with, and held at the child’s school. We invite children and young people to talk about their problems, identify goals for our work together and sometimes find solutions. Some of the topics your child may wish to talk about could be; family, how they are feeling, school work, and/or friendships or something else which is bothering them or they are finding difficult to deal with. Initially your child may be unsure of what they would like to talk about, we are here to help them explore how counselling could help.
When working online, we have developed specific guidance called ‘Our Pledge’, which can be accessed below.
All our therapists that work within our counselling services are fully trained and experienced professionals, or supervised students in some instances, and work in accordance with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) ethical framework. The team utilise a range of modalities. including (but are not limited to): humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, relational, integrative approaches, play and art based approaches.
Read the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) ethical framework.
