Headway North London

First Tuesday Counselling Group

Headway North London's First Tuesday Counselling is a monthly group counselling session open to all brain injury survivors who would like to attend.

Having a brain injury can affect feelings and emotions in many different ways. Sudden changes at home, at work, in social relationships and with friends and family can often have a huge impact on how you feel about yourself and your life. While everyone develops their own way of managing these changes in time, you may not always feel able to cope on your own or know where to turn to for support.

Counselling offers the opportunity to explore and talk through whatever may be on your mind with a trained professional who has the time, skills and objectivity to listen without getting upset or over-involved. Counselling can help you to discover how issues affect you and what your strengths and resources are within your situation. The First Tuesday Counselling sessions are confidential and offer you a chance to talk openly in a safe, sensitive and supportive setting with other people with experience of brain injury.

IMPORTANT CHANGES: a new counselling format will be introduced from October 2010. This new approach will be to offer counselling for a defined block of time on targeted themes that focus on achieving defined outcomes. The session at the Friend's Meeting House on 5 October will facilitate the transition to this new structure. We would like to thank Intandem for the fantastic work they have done and the huge contribution they have made to our services and with the members taking part in these sessions.

To find out more or if you would like to join the group please call 020 7372 4477

These counselling sessions are available without charge and are only made possible by generous donations to Headway North London.

The First Tuesday counselling group is held on the first Tuesday of each month from 1.30pm - 4.30pm at the Friends Meeting House in Euston. Upcoming dates in 2010:

• 7th September
• 5th October
• 2nd November
• 7th December

Tube
Euston or Euston Square (Zone 1) - Metropolitan / Circle / Victoria / Northern lines

Train
Euston or Kings Cross stations are close. Cross to the south side of the Euston Road and the Friend's Meeting House can be found directly opposite Euston Station.

Bus
You can catch the numbers 10/ 18 / 24 / 27 / 30/ 59/ 68/ 73/ 91/168/ 253.