Well I thought it was worth a celebration blog. The 1st Oct marks 5 years of Wright Minds, from humble beginnings with only 1 client a week the business has grown to allow me to offer 20 counselling hours a week, with a reduced rate for those on low income, students, or retired. In that time I have undertaken over 2000 hours worth of counselling, I have been able to move offices to a larger office with nicer facilities for my clients, attended multiple professional development days, weathered the onslaught of COVID and I just want to thank you all for taking part in the journey so far, I hope one day I will be writing my 10th, 15th or 20th anniversary post and that you will be reading them.

In 5 years I have attained certificates as a Trauma therapist, an anxiety management diploma, a CBT diploma, a Mindfulness diploma, completed a depression focused therapy certificate, undertaken a course on ADHD and Autism within counselling, increased my awareness of obsessions in therapy, improved my understanding a LGBTQ therapy spaces, completed mandatory updates for adult and child safeguarding.

COVID was a challenge for many but I was able to increase my use of video counselling (for those wondering this was the topic of my dissertation 12 years ago) and ensure that clients still had access to safe and helpful support when they needed it, COVID changed many lives and now Wright Minds is working in the new post pandemic world with even more flexibility offering video, telephone or face to face therapy to suit the clients needs.

Thank you for your support and I’ll see you in next months blog post.