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Raj Singh and The Prestige Group have announced funding for a new part-time employed counsellor to support The Haven, a highly specialised Hartlepool charity providing free, confidential, face-to-face counselling for young people aged 11–25. The investment will enable The Haven to increase its frontline counselling capacity at a time of significant and growing demand for youth mental-health support, ensuring more young people across the town can access professional help when they need it...

By John Reid When I first trained as a counsellor over a decade ago, my focus was on adults, including those caring for others who, once exploring their own histories had childhood trauma’s which they sometimes buried, but deeply affected their personalities as they grew older particularly around their feelings of self-worth, and  those navigating the complex and often invisible wounds of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Over the years, I sat with clients as they unpacked painful...

The Haven, a registered charity dedicated to supporting young people aged 11-25 in Hartlepool, is delighted to announce that it has been...