Dover Charity Launches Free Mental Health in the Workplace Course

Dover Counselling Centre (DCC), a well-established and highly respected mental health charity, will launch a new series of mental health training courses beginning this September.

The inaugural session, entitled Mental Health in the Workplace, is scheduled for Friday 19 September at the Holiday Inn, Whitfield, Dover, and will be offered free of charge to the first 24 attendees.

Attending the workshop will increase your understanding of the main mental health issues that people suffer and enable you to use these skills in your workplace.

• How would you describe poor mental health?

• Could you recognise it in yourself & others?

• How would you deal with it in the workplace?

The day starts at 09:00 hrs and finishes at 16:00 hrs and will cover the following subjects:

• Definition of mental health

• Overview of main mental health conditions

• Creating an accepting culture

• Developing helping skills

• Referring on to other professionals

• Self-care

Delivered by Christine Atkin and Sarah Hockley who are long-standing, proficient and highly experienced psychotherapists and trainers.

This training initiative marks a significant step in DCC’s ongoing commitment to improving mental health outcomes for individuals and workplaces throughout the community.

More workshops will follow as DCC continues to champion emotional wellbeing across the region and beyond.

For further information and/or to book your place please contact our support team by emailing: [email protected]. We hope that you or one of your team will be able to join us.

About the Dover Counselling Centre:

Born of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, DCC, the trading style of the Dover Counselling Centre, will soon be 40 years old, representing a long, distinguished career that has seen many thousands of clients treated for a vast number of mental health related issues.

The Dover Counselling Centre (DCC) is housed in its own stand-alone building at Whitfield, Dover and boasts seven therapy rooms and a peaceful wellness garden. Although Dover based, if called upon the Centre administers counselling to the entire country and is renowned for its prompt and efficient attention.

The centre took over responsibility for meeting the continuing needs of the bereaved and survivors as well as members of the local community from the Kent County Council and retained the facility to expand the range of services offered.

DCC is a charity and company limited by guarantee. It is an organisational member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and as such adheres to the BACP ethical framework.

Counselling is not about telling you what to do, but to encourage you to talk about what has been bothering you and to help you find ways of coping by enabling you to address your difficulties in a positive way.

DCC offers a safe environment to which people in distress can refer themselves, enabling them to address their difficulties in a positive way and improve their quality of life.

The centre works in partnership with companies and organisations across the UK to provide counselling, mental health awareness raising and training to support the emotional health and wellbeing of their employees.

For more information visit: www.dcc-care.org.

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