This guide is for anyone in Birmingham looking for support that meets them where they actually are.

If I ask you to imagine what a relationship counselling session looks like, what do you see? I’m pretty confident it’s a room with a couch (sofa, settee, whatever you call it) and two people plonked on it, possibly a bit of a gap between them, facing opposite a clipboard wielding counsellor. And you’d be right. Partly. There is indeed a counsellor. The rest is up for debate. There’s a reason I said relationship counselling and not couples counselling, though the two are often

It's 2021. A crisp, late afternoon in the middle of August. We’re having a decent summer. There are people and their pets strolling through the park. And there I am, sitting on the grass in the shade, listening to the ring ring of a suicide helpline. Hold on. Wait. How did I get here? I was about to turn 30 and hadn't achieved anything I was told I was supposed to yet. I'd placed a world of expectation on my own shoulders and had not the foggiest clue how to make any of it a