Wellspring is a small community based Charity. We can only sustain our service and offer subsidised counselling sessions to adults thanks to donations, grants and fund-raising events. We receive very little funding from the Government and none from the NHS. Each session costs Wellspring about £50 to provide. To make sure we can continue to provide sessions, we charge a fee for adult and 11 – 18 year olds counselling .

Initial assessment

  • Young people aged 11 – 18 years: Initial assessment and ongoing counselling sessions – £25 for each session.

If you are not able to pay the full fee, it will not prevent your child from using our service. To access our bursary fund for those on low incomes, please speak to your child’s counsellor or reception team.

  • Clients aged over 19 years: Initial assessment – For an initial assessment session with a counsellor we make a non-refundable charge of £25. For those in receipt of qualifying benefits* this is reduced to £15.

Counselling Sessions

The fee for ongoing counselling is calculated according to your household annual income. If you are unable to pay the suggested fee per session, please discuss this with us during your initial assessment and we will do our best to help. This is dependent on sufficient funds being available in our subsidy budget and will be decided on an individual basis.

  • Full-time students over 25 years (no income) – £20
  • Up to £30,000 – £25
  • £30,000 to £40,000 – £35
  • £40,000 and above – £45

FURTHER REDUCTIONS – further reduced fees for adults or young people’s sessions can be requested by adults with low household incomes and/or state pensions in receipt of qualifying benefits. Please ask reception for details

PLEASE ENSURE YOU PAY PROMPTLY TO SAVE US HAVING TO CONTACT YOU

Clients in receipt of benefits

We will ask you to provide proof of receipt of one of the following qualifying benefits, at your assessment session:

  • Income Support
  • Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
  • Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
  • Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
  • Universal Credit
  • Disability Living Allowance / Personal Independence Payment
  • Student ID