Manna House Counselling Service, Northampton

Our professional counselling services are free to some clients and donations are requested from others towards costs. We’ve helped 5,500 clients during 57,000 sessions since we opened our doors in 1985 with an estimated ‘social return on investment’ over £26 million. Starting with just one volunteer working one hour a day, with a desk and a telephone in the basement of the Manna House Bookshop, the service has grown considerably to 29 professionally trained counsellors offering more than 250 sessions a month. We help people aged 7 to 85 years old and 41% of clients are non-wage earning. 51% of referrals to the service come from medical sources, 30% from self-referrals or friends and family, and 19% from other agencies. We offer a professionally trained service to people with problems. These problems might include a troubled marriage, a crisis - such as bereavement or redundancy - depression or suicidal feelings, emotional trauma, anxiety, relationship breakdown, eating disorders, abuse, or a personal spiritual problem. Male, female, young, old, people of faith or no faith - all are welcome. We are affiliated to the Association of Christian Counsellors (ACC) who are a nationwide umbrella organisation which standardizes counselling activities. For more information, please view their website www.acc-uk.org