Welcome
Ealing Abbey Counselling Service (EACS) is an established registered charity which offers confidential, professional help and a range of skills to meet the needs of our clients, without discrimination. We are a non denominational service – our counsellors and clients come from a range of backgrounds, cultures and belief systems.
Our office and counselling rooms are on the first and second floor of a converted Victorian building and accessed via side fire escape stairs. We have limited use of a ground floor annexe to the rear of the building for those requiring disabled access.
The Service was founded in 1994 and has developed from a small beginning of seven founder members into one of the largest voluntary sector counselling and psychotherapy providers in London and the South East.
We have around 100 practitioners: up to 70 counsellors, who are either professionally trained or at an advanced training stage and all of whom give their time for free; up to twenty supervisors who provide supervision in groups to our counsellors; and a team of up to 7 assessors who carry out a comprehensive assessment of new clients and match clients with counsellors as appropriate.
Our aim is to offer a professional, safe
and supportive environment for both our clients and our
practitioners.
PUBLIC
STATEMENT
Ealing Abbey Counselling Service (EACS) wishes to
make a statement in the light of the recent publicity concerning the Trust of St
Benedict's Abbey, Ealing and in particular it's monastery and
school.
EACS is one of the activities of the Trust of St Benedict's but
it has operated as a separate entity since it was started 17 years ago by a
small group of volunteers.
Furthermore, it should be noted that EACS is a
strictly non denominational counselling service where there has never been any
suggestion of inappropriate behaviour within the organisation.
The rooms
which EACS uses are provided by the Trust of St Benedict, which has always
supported our work as an expression of its wish to make a contribution to
encourage the healing and care of all residents within the London Borough of
Ealing.
The current Abbot, who has been in his position for the past 11
years, supports the counselling service and has consistenly offered his
encouragement to our work with all sectors of the community.
EACS is and
will remain vigilant in its scrutiny of counsellors who offer themselves as
candidates to work within the service; all candidates undergo an enhanced CRB
check prior to being offered a placement within the counselling service.
- May 2012-