About The Service

Tenterden

Origins and Structure

Tenterden Counselling Service was founded in 1983 in response to a need for a counselling service in Tenterden and the surrounding villages. Responsibility for the organisation rests with a groups of Trustees. These Trustees, together with advisers from the community, are the managers. It is a non-profit making registered charity with no political or religious affiliation and is an organisational member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Our Objectives and our Counsellors

The Service seeks to promote personal growth towards psychological and emotional health. It offers a professional service with counsellors who are either fully trained to diploma level or beyond, or with counsellors who are at an advanced stage of their training. All have regular supervision to meet the requirements of BACP and to maintain our high standards. All our counsellors are provided with in-house on-going training, their attendance being a requirement of membership of the Service. Between them they offer a wide range of counselling experience and expertise.

Confidentiality

As an organisational member of BACP, Tenterden Counselling Service is bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy and is subject to the BACP Professional Conduct Procedure.

All personal information disclosed to a counsellor is confidential to Tenterden Counselling Service. No information will be disclosed to a third party without prior consultation with the client concerned.