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1 in 4 of us
will experience a mental health problem each year
Cogwheel Counselling
has helped many thousands of people of all ages
We offer you support
and an opportunity to improve your mental health
Thanks to your support in 2024
we were able to support 400 people with their wellbeing,
providing 4,040 counselling sessions, including 400 for children and young people
Dealing with mental health issues
can be an extremely painful and traumatic time for all in the family
Cogwheel can help you
Mental health problems
in later life can be improved
With the right support you can recover
We encourage
personal development and positive change

What is Cogwheel?

Cogwheel Counselling is proud to be a Cambridge-based registered charity that provides affordable counselling for those on low or limited income. We believe that counselling should be available for everyone, despite how much they earn. 

Cogwheel provides individual therapy for people of all ages including children, adolescence, adults and the elderly.

Our Employee Counselling Service is available for organisations who want to offer their employees emotional support.

Cogwheel is one of the few Cambridgeshire counselling services accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

Read more about Cogwheel here

How can we help you?

Individual Counselling:

We are here to support people of all ages (children, teenagers, young adults, adults and the elderly) who are struggling. We can help with worry, stress, burnout, depression, family or relationship problems and other mental health issues you are experiencing.

We are proud to be a Cambridge-based registered charity that offers supported affordable provision for those on lower and limited incomes.

Alongside our affordable service, we also offer Cogwheel on Saturdays to fit around the working week. 

Employee Counselling Service:

Cogwheel offers organisations who wish to support their staff struggling with emotional wellbeing issues the option of registering with our Employee Counselling Service (ECS) for their employees to receive a course of counselling sessions fully funded by their organisation.

If you care about your employee wellbeing – we can help! 

Cogwheel Counselling Services:

Employee Counselling Service

Cogwheel’s Employee Counselling Service helps businesses and organisations support their employees’ mental wellbeing.
Find out more

Counselling Support Fund

Our Counselling Support Fund allows individuals or families on very low income to access the counselling support they need to improve their mental wellbeing.
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How to donate

Donations can be given either to a particular aspect of our work, such as the Counselling Support Fund or children/family counselling work, or to support the broader activities of the charity – either approach makes a real difference to what we are able to offer.
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Our events

Help support our work by joining one of our fundraising events. You can find out what’s coming up (or more about past events) here.
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Latest news

Cogwheel Impact

In our most recent survey, 46% of clients indicated that they were severely or moderately severely distressed at the start of
counselling, at the end of counselling this had reduced to only 12% of clients. 

What Our Clients Say About Cogwheel

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I can't recommend Cogwheel highly enough. The team are fantastic, from the support staff through to the counsellor that helped me. I came to Cogwheel at a difficult period in my life but with their help I can happily say that I am in a much more positive place. The counsellor I worked with looked to help me each week, but also helped me understand techniques and approaches to issues that I could use beyond our sessions. Cogwheel has made a big difference to my life and I am grateful for the help and assistance they gave me.
Cogwheel enabled me to talk about my troubles, and challenged my to change my ways of thinking about myself, my family and my future.
During counselling with Cogwheel I had a very observant question asked of me, which made me ask myself if I was being realistic in my expectations.
Cogwheel helped my find confidence in myself and think more positively and understand why I behaved and reacted to this in the way I did before.
Cogwheel offered consistent meetings and a welcoming, professional feeling. I felt that I was supported and was able to talk openly with my counsellor.
One-to-one counselling provided me some insight into some issues. Changes and progress started during the 12-week counselling period.
I felt that I had someone who helped me through a very hard time when there was no one else.
I felt like it was the first time someone actually understood how I was feeling, but no judgements.
My son is still using the ideas/games he was given to manage his worries/concerns.
The counsellor always gave me the time I needed to talk through my problems.
It was good to have a safe place to talk about very private and difficult subjects.
My head is much clearer. I feel happier and able to move on with my life.
Being listened to helped me to look at things in a different way.

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