Initial appointment
The initial appointment wil be for 50 minutes and will help you decide what next steps you need to take. Sometimes this appointment is enough in itself, alternative options may be:
- up to six sessions of counselling
- referral to external agencies for long term counselling
- prescription for self help books (bibliotherapy)
- referral to workshops
- referral to longer term groups
If during the initial appointment you and the counsellor decide that short-term counselling would be helpful your will be placed on our waiting list for counselling. You will then be allocated a counsellor who may not be the person you met with at your initial appointment. The majority of students are seen within three weeks, although at certain times it may take longer.
If you feel your are interested in this form of counselling please email student.counselling@ed.ac.uk and we will be happy to send you our Registration Form and Questionnaire.
We can provide email counselling where appropriate.
This article was published on Jul 21, 2010