Counselling Services
Northumberland – Newcastle – North Tyneside
Affordable Counselling Services for the North Tyneside and Newcastle Online, Phone or In-house
Counselling is a form of support that enables the development of greater personal resilience. Our counselling services focus on using your strengths to develop new strategies for finding solutions to difficulties. We specialise in a wide range of needs, including anxiety and depression, relationship difficulties and more. Our team of volunteer and paid counsellors provide low-cost counselling services.
Which Talking Therapy is Right for Me?
If you are unsure about choosing between counselling and psychotherapy, we can help you talk it through and make a decision. We believe it is usually better to start small and progress from there. Our counsellors are members of BACP or UKCP and are experts in various areas such as anxiety counselling, PTSD, depression counselling, anger management, abuse counselling, bereavement and grief counselling, stress management and low self-esteem.
1-1 and Online Counselling Sessions
We offer 1-1 and online counselling sessions. If you can commit to attending scheduled sessions, please apply. Non-attendance at scheduled sessions reduces the availability of sessions for our members and has a cost to the charity. If you miss a session without letting us know you will be removed.
Cost of the Service
Anxious Minds runs a low-cost counselling service with a cost of £30 per session (If you are unemployed or on a low income the cost is £20) We encourage you to discuss your counselling needs with your GP first if you feel able to do so. Your GP can refer you to a range of general and specialist mental health services, so talking openly with your GP may help you access the right service the first time around.
Face to Face Counselling
The counsellor sees the client in a confidential setting, such as our base in Blyth and Wallsend or our outreach venues across the North East.
Telephone Counselling
The counsellor arranges a telephone counselling appointment at a convenient time and the counselling session takes place over the phone. Which means the client can access the service from their home or work.
Group Counselling
People with similar problems and experiences come together in a private and confidential setting with a trained counsellor. Everyone in the group talks and listens to each other and works through their problems as a collective.
“Every journey starts with a first step, make yours today”
For Wallsend please call 0191 262 0305
The Vault, 31 Station Road, Wallsend ,NE28 6RN
For Blyth please call 01670 946 188
86 Bowes Street , Blyth, NE24 1EE
Multi -Award-Winning Counselling Services
Anxious Minds have been delivering counselling services for over nine years. Our services are not funded, so we rely on donations to fund the centres and services supporting around 200 people a week.
We take referrals from all local GPs’ Mental Health and Crisis Teams from North Tyneside and Newcastle and Veteran’s Mental Health Services, and other Charities. The service has been the highest-rated service on Healthwatch, and had an external validation completed in 2020, with funding provided by the Association of Mental Health Providers scoring 98% with a grade of ‘OUTSTANDING’. More than 95% of our referrals are seen within two weeks making our provision accessible when needed most.
The project has won the Leading Mental Health Support Services of the Year for the last two years. UK Enterprise Awards and Winner of the MARKEL 3rd Sector Care Award in 2025.
