EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES 

Psychotherapy Service

BICC emotional support - therapeutic journey and psychotherapy service was set up in 2022 as an integral part of BICC mission. We offer cultural, gender sensitive and faith sensitive service that promotes emotional wellbeing in a safe environment to help people to overcome the impact of trauma and abuse. 

Our service promises to help you to move forward, to be empowered and find pathways to happiness and wellbeing. 

We have specifically tailored our therapeutic approach combining therapies with psychodynamic principles, which focuses on empowering and strengthening patients to reach their own potential as unique and valuable individuals. We use therapeutic tools to encourage social and gender role analysis in order to challenge norms and stereotypes and support self-development. We maintain the egalitarian principle in therapy as a tool to challenge disbalance of power that helps us to build a safe working environment to promote self-awareness.

• The cost of the therapy is paid to BICC in advance by invoice on a regular monthly or basis , this may vary according to people's income.

• COST range from low cost of £25.00 to £75.00 per session. We also offer FREE discretionary counselling sessions.

• Individual Therapy – normally last 50 min per session
• Group session – normally last one and a half hour 
• Family Therapy Session – depending on clients this may last between 60 to 90 min
• Workshops may vary according to topic and goals. 

• Psychotherapy and Counselling service complies with BICC policies and procedures in regards to data protection and confidentiality, fair processing and strives to protect personal details and sensitive information. Personal information will be treated as strictly confidential and in line with the GDPR policy.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the BiCC Director - Veronica Simpson. 

Basic principles of BICC Psychotherapy & Emotional Support Services 

• BICC Psychotherapy services are designed and dedicated primarily to those who have experienced any form of abuse, directly and indirectly. It is open to all, and we work to make it accessible to meet people's needs. 

• BICC Psychotherapy Services   main goal is to enable patients to build their inner strength to live a fulfilling and independent life. 

• As a holistic part of BICC services we are committed to improve the quality of life of people accessing services to minimise the risk of abuse, subscribing to BICC ethos and values as well as the organisation policies and code of practice to ensure quality of service and clear lines of accountability. 

• The organisation provides an integrative, people-centred counselling service which combines diverse psychotherapy approaches such as: psychodynamic, systemic, gestalt, existentialist and humanist. 

Clients access counselling and psychotherapy services on a voluntary basis and are required to commit to a counselling contract with BICC Psychotherapy coordinator. Before counselling starts, the Psychotherapy Service Coordinator clarifies with the client the basis on which counselling is to be given, including method, duration, cost and confidentiality. Changes can subsequently be made only with the agreement of the Psychotherapist Service Coordinator and the client.