Service Details

Bedford Open Door will see any young person between the ages of 13 and 25 in emotional difficulty, who lives in Bedford and surrounding area. This may be through self referral, or signposting by professionals, or other voluntary sector workers.
 Counselling takes place in the privacy of a small counselling room, and the atmosphere is welcoming and informal. Appointments are weekly and each session lasts for 50 minutes. At
  an initial exploratory session in which all issues are talked about, a way ahead will be the main
  focus. Sometimes the single meeting is enough, but sometimes meeting with a counsellor for
  some more sessions may be useful. In that case, our clients will be allocated to meet with for
  ongoing counselling.
The service is confidential unless there is a serious risk to a client or someone around
  them. We always endeavour to discuss risks and act with the consent of our clients, but
  our prime focus is the safety and well being ot the young people with whom we work.
Counselling at Bedford Open Door is free.
 Clients can speak with a receptionist on the phone during normal opening hours. Outside these times a message can be left on the answer phone.

ACCESSIBILITY

Bedford Open Door is committed to ensuring that our Service is accessible to all young people between the ages of 13 and 25 and aim to comply with Bedford Borough Standards for Accessibility. We have devised an Accessibility Strategy for 2012 which is available to view by asking our Project Manager. If you have any suggestions or improvements, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Bedford Open Door is committed to making the information and resources provided via its website accessible to all users. We aim to be standards compliant and follow general principles of usability in order to help all visitors to this web site.

Pages on the Bedford Open Door web site aim to conform to both the spirit and the letter of the United Kingdom Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995. In accordance with the DDA and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (SENDA) 2001, we aim to ensure that all our web pages conform partially to the W3C's WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidlines at level AA, and we are engaged in improving compliance with these guidelines.

It is possible that some of our pages might not currently conform to these standards, but we are endeavouring to ensure that all future web pages are compliant with accessibility guidelines. If you have any difficulty accessing the site, or have any suggestions for improvements, please contact us.

Bedford Open Door
Tel: 01234 360388
Email: counselling@bedfordopendoor.org.uk

Open Door is a fully independent registered charity (No. 1053008) and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - www.bacp.co.uk.