Counselling
About Counselling & the Student Health and Well-Being Team
What is Counselling?
The Student Health and Well-Being team offer both Individual Counselling and Group Counselling.
Individual Counselling is a meeting between two people whereby time and space is used to help explore, clarify and understand personal difficulties in a non-judgmental setting. Talking in this way to an independent person, who is not there to judge or advise, offers space to reflect, enables emotional development, raises awareness of patterns of behaviour and helps with decision making and finding solutions.
Group sessions provide a safe space facilitated by a member of the Health and Well-Being team. This can offer a unique environment in which to learn about and experience both self and others. We all live in groups for much of our lives and working together with others in a group can provide valuable insights into characteristic patterns of thinking and relating in a group setting. The group experience gives individuals an opportunity to explore their issues in more depth, in a setting which more closely resembles work, study, social and family groupings.
An initial assessment session offers the chance to gain a sense of what counselling is and whether time limited individual or group counselling would be most appropriate to meet your needs. A contract to meet regularly with your counsellor or attend group sessions can then be made.
If following the agreed number of sessions you would like more support we will assist you in identifying other services.
The Student Health and Well-Being Team aims to enhance and support
your experience as a student at The University of Bath.
The Counselling Team
Sometimes problems or difficulties arise which may be helped by discussion in a supportive, confidential environment. University counsellors are available, by appointment, to talk in confidence about personal and emotional concerns which can affect your life as a student and your ongoing academic progress.
The service is here for an increasingly diverse population of students in the University and appreciates differences in gender, ability and disability, ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation, culture and religion.
The statements below reflect some of the presenting problems which students
bring to the service; perhaps some of them are familiar to you:
- I'm unhappy here
- I can't concentrate on my work
- I think I might be gay
- I've just heard that my grandmother has died
- I feel anxious a lot of the time
- I'm not sure I have made the right decision to be here
- I don't know whether alcohol is a problem for me or not
- I do find British culture a problem
- My relationship has broken down
- I have to get a first
- I'm feeling depressed
- I'm worried that counselling will make me say things I might regret
- I don't get on with my tutor
- I've just been diagnosed with …..
- I miss home
- I think I spend too much time on the internet
You don't have to be in crisis to use the Counselling Service. Students come to the service to explore a wide range of different issues.