Free counselling for unpaid carers across Cambridgeshire

Counsellor talking to a carerCaring for someone you love can be meaningful, but it can also be exhausting, isolating and emotionally overwhelming.

Many carers put their own wellbeing last.

Caring Together Charity counselling service can provide up to ten free counselling sessions, offering a safe, confidential space where carers (individuals, couples and other relationships such as parent carers, sibling carers, carer and cared for person) can talk openly about the challenges they’re facing, without judgement or pressure.

You don’t have to carry everything alone.

Who we support

  • Unpaid carers supporting family member or loved ones.
  • Partners and couples affected by caring responsibilities.
  • Parents caring for children (young and adult) with additional needs.
  • Individuals and couples experiencing stress, burnout or emotional exhaustion.
  • Anyone feeling overwhelmed by life changes linked to their caring role.

What counselling can help with

  • Carer stress and burnout
  • Anxiety, depression and trauma
  • Feelings of isolation and loneliness
  • Guilt, resentment or emotional overwhelm
  • Relationship strain and communication challenges
  • Loss of identity or personal space.

About our team

Our Counsellors and Relationship Psychotherapists are highly experienced in working with carers and are professionally qualified members of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists). Our Counsellors can provide telephone and online counselling support.

If you would like to find out further information, please contact us at cambscounselling@caringtogether.org or contact 0345 241 0954

Meet our Cambridgeshire Counselling team

Steph, our Counselling Service Manager

Steph is our Counselling Service Manager at Caring Together Charity. Having been a qualified Counsellor for over ten years, Steph is passionate in her role working with unpaid carers. She says, “There are so many unpaid carers at breaking point, experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, and complete burn out. It is so rewarding to see the positive impact of the work we do within our team to support unpaid carers. We are a small but very effective service, which I feel proud to be a part of.”

Cathy, one of our qualified Counsellors

Cathy is one of our qualified Counsellors working with Caring Together Charity, she is passionate about helping carers manage stress, emotional burnout, feelings of guilt and resentment in the caring role.

 

As an integrative Counsellor, Cathy helps carers develop personalised strategies for their own individual needs navigating life’s challenges, creating healthy boundaries and encouraging positivity. As a trauma informed therapist, she will guide carers through their experiences with compassion, sensitivity and understanding. Her aim is to navigate clients towards self-compassion, emotional regulation and build healthy coping strategies. Cathy also works with couples who wish to improve communication, rediscover connection, and strengthen their relationship.

We can provide free counselling support across Cambridgeshire through funding received from Cambridgeshire County Council as part of the All-Age Carers’ Contract.

Cambridgeshire County Council