Our Services

We deliver a range of support techniques to help our service users overcome stress, emotional difficulties, relationships and other areas which trouble their lives.
The common element is that they are based on a therapist and service user talking and interacting with each other.

The Manda Centre Counsellors work within a safe and confidential environment.
They bring a wealth of experience, both to the client (Service User) and the Centre.

Some of the issues the Counsellors can help support you with are:

One to one Counselling: Telephone Support & Counselling
Counsellors and therapists dedicate time to each person, using positive and therapeutic techniques to help individuals manage and understand the effects of significant change, loss and grief
Family Support: providing members a combination of one to one and group counselling
Suicide Prevention: this is provided when counsellors are concerned with the response and or behaviour of individual clients. The counsellors’ use recognised suicide prevention techniques
Alternative Therapies: simple stress reduction supports and enhances progress with counselling
Advocacy: practical advice
Mediation: between members and employers, education, housing, social security and others.
Volunteering: recruitment: training: placement: opportunities

Person-Centred Counselling is a client-centred therapy and Rogerian psychotherapy and is a form of talk-psychotherapy developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
The goal of PCT is to provide clients with an opportunity to develop a sense of self where they can realise how their attitudes, feelings and behaviour are being negatively affected. PCT has been proven to be an effective popular treatment.

A talking therapy that can help individuals change the way they think (cognitive) and what they do (behaviour). The focus is on the present and future and encourages discussion to help get rid of destructive thought. It helps make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts, making it easier to see connections and effects.

The client is asked to describe difficult situations; followed by the thoughts, emotions, physical feelings and actions they found helpful or not.

It can help break a vicious circle of altered thinking, feelings and behaviour by helping the client realise the parts or sequence clearly, enabling them to change the outcome. The methods employed help the client work things out for themselves especially in future situations by identifying what behaviour they want to change in the short, medium and longer term.

This method has achieved particular success as an antidepressant and is one of the most effective psychological treatments for anxiety and or mild to moderate depression.

What does Holistic mean?

Holistic Therapies have been around for thousands of years and were commonly used in ancient Egypt, China, and India for their therapeutic effects.

Holistic means Care for the whole person, mind, body and spirit.

The holistic approach to health differs from the conventional medical approach by considering the whole person rather than just focusing on the symptom or the part that has the problem.

Holistic therapists believe that the body has a vital force or life energy.

It is this force that protects the body from disease and allows it to heal.

We often refer to it as the “immune system”.

When the balance of the immune system is disturbed we the see the various symptoms of dis-ease.

Holistic therapies aim to help the patient restore the balance, thus allowing the body to heal itself naturally.

We treat everyone that attends The Manda Centre with confidentiality, dignity and respect and develop our service in response to the demand of all those we support.

Peer Support Groups

Ladies

The Ladies Group meet in the morning on the first Friday of every month from 10am to 11:45am

Man2Man

The Men’s’ Peer Support Group, Man2Man meetings take place@ 6:30pm every second Thursday

So all you Ladies & Men:
Please just get in touch and let us know when you want to come along
and attend an informal get together and discuss & decide what support
and activities you want & need.