NZ Single Parents Trust

Jaqui Barrett was 31 and close to death when she first tried to get help. It was 1984 and the mum of 2 saw her life as one giant mess. But jaqui found it hard to get help back then because counselling wasn’t widely available and what was on offer was not what she needed. “It was a terrible situation. I actually felt worse – I felt I couldn’t even be depressed properly”, she says. She eventually found people who would listen and became a counsellor herself.

Things have changed greatly for people who need to reach out for help since then. Now we have counselling services available for all sorts of tough times in our lives and people who have been through these times themselves and come out the other end are offering their service to help others walk through similar times. There’s now a range of professionals available to help with all sorts of problems.

And it is not just women who are counsellors because many men are stepping up to help other males and in the last 2 – 3 years there has been a big increase in men coming to counselling.

Home and family, a not-for-profit community service has put forward a Counselling Awareness week which has just gone. Yesterday was the last day as it was from June 11th. They say, “it is better to talk”.

Home and family’s aim is to strengthen New Zealand families. They offer professional counselling to adults, children and teenagers.

Groups include:

1. New start program for migrant women.
2. Parenting through Seperation.
3. Chinese solo Mother’s Parenting Group.
4. Anger without aggro programme
5. Creating respectful girl’s programme.
6. Talking it through children’s programme.

There is no set price – clients are asked to make a donation they can afford.

homeandfamily.org.nz

Central Office and Mt Eden Counselling Centre
344 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden
Tel 09 630 8961
Fax 09 630 8487
info@homeandfamily.org.nz

North Shore Counselling Centre
52 Diana Drive, Glenfield
Tel 09 441 2433
Fax 09 441 2431
northshore@homeandfamily.org.nz

Julie News