Counselling
Disabled People's Peer Counselling Service
We are a BACP Accredited, confidential counselling service for disabled people and their families throughout Derbyshire.
The BACP Service Accreditation Scheme helps the public and practitioners identify services providing a high standard of counselling/psychotherapy. Click here learn more about what BACP accreditation means.
This page is designed to answer some of the questions you may have. We hope it will help you to make an informed decision about using the Counselling service.
BACP Reference no. 100147. 'BACP' is the registered Trade Mark of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
What is DCIL Peer Counselling?
Peer Counselling with DCIL means counselling for disabled people or their family members, offered by disabled people who are trained in counselling.
Our Counselling is one part of a support service developed by disabled people themselves. It follows a model where all the influences that make up our experience of disability - personal, social, environmental - are seen as a whole.
Peer counselling deals with the feelings people experience in everyday life. It can help to recover your own inner resources and strengths, to reach a better feeling of control and responsibility in your life, and to recognise the disabling influences that can be changed.
Counselling provides a place where you are taken seriously, valued and accepted, even when you may not be feeling particularly good about yourself.
Counsellors do not make decisions for you, but support you to come to your own decisions in your own way and your own time.
Who goes for Counselling?
People seek counselling for many different reasons:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- To help with confidence
- To recognise and tackle disabling influences in their lives
- To improve relationships with other
How do I get to see a Counsellor?
If you feel counselling could help you, please contact us by phone, letter, email or call in and ask for the Counselling Service.
E-mail: counsell@dcil.org.uk
With your permission a GP/Social Worker/Support Worker etc. can also refer you.
How much does it cost?
Our services are free to all disabled people and their families in Derbyshire. However, as a registered charity donations are always welcome. Subsidised transport may be available to make getting to counselling easier.
What level of experience do counsellors have?
DCIL has both Level 4/Post Graduate qualified Counsellors working towards accreditation and counselling students on professional training courses and on placement. If you want more information on the level of qualifications our counsellors have please contact us.
