Person centred support group for people who hear voices and their families.
SERVICES
About Us
Time and Space is a new service (reg charity no. SCO42547), funded by the big lottery, for people with complex mental health problems in Glasgow. We work with people who are troubled by auditory hallucinations (voice hearers) and their families.
Voice hearing can be experienced by those suffering from complex mental health problems such as schizophrenia, bi polar disorder, schizo-affective disorder, borderline personality disorder and psychosis as well as those who have never been diagnosed with any mental illness. It is estimated that between 3% and 30% of us will be troubled by voices at some point in our lives.
Voice hearers can also experience visual hallucinations and tactile sensations and it can have a profound effect on the sufferer. Medication doesn’t always help to reduce the voices, leaving the sufferer isolated and often afraid with no idea how to manage. We aim to work alongside existing medications to provide a safe place where people who are troubled by voices can come and explore their experience and share coping mechanisms and strategies, allowing them to find their own solutions and gain control over the voices and their lives.
It can also be upsetting for the families who are often given little information about what is happening to their loved one. The families can be left feeling guilty, frightened, angry, sad and worried with no idea how to help or what to do for the best.
Our group aims to offer sufferers and their families’ support that THEY feel would be helpful.
We offer free counselling, support and information to our members and their families and every week we will facilitate a separate women’s and men’s group which will be exclusively for voice hearers. This will give our members the chance, often for the first time, to openly discuss and explore their voices with people who have had similar experiences
Timetable
Monday 5.30pm-8.00pm Community group/drop in support and information
Wednesday 10.30am-11.30am Drop in support and information
12.00pm-1.30pm Men’s voice hearer’s group
2.00pm-3.30pm Women’s voice hearer’s group
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Our counsellors are qualified to Post Graduate Diploma level and we also have trainee counsellors who are qualified to Certificate level who are undertaking their Post Graduate Diploma. All of our counsellors undergo regular training and supervision.
Service Categories
Counselling, Psychotherapy
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