We are the only specialist eating distress charity in the North East and aim to be a centre of excellence for eating distress support.
We offer counselling, support, information, help and hope to anyone in the region affected by eating distress. We have a person-centred approach and our services provide help from early identification through to recovery.
We have a new 13-to-16 year old counselling service open to select referral partners.
Placement opportunities now open for children and young people trainee psychotherapists in their 3rd or 4th year of training.
If you'd like to volunteer in a specialist service, within a highly qualified, friendly and supportive team, you will:
- Be undertaking a psychotherapy qualification
- Be in your 3rd of 4th year of training
- Have experience of at least one placement already with over 60 hours of placement
- Hold BACP membership, or equivalent, and ability to observe the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
We'd need you to:
- Be able to commit to a six month minimum placement and see two or three clients per week .
- Deliver online and in person counselling sessions from our office in Newcastle. We have space on Mondays at our office so you can be properly supported by our Counselling Lead and our Children and Young Person’s Counsellor.
- Provide two references and undergo a DBS check.
- Work within our 13-to-16 year old counselling service and potentially provide support to 17 and 18 year olds.
In return we will provide:
- Eating disorder / distress training and work experience in this highly specialist area.
- Other training and development opportunities including peer support and supervision.
- We will offer 1-1 supervision from an eating distress/disorder perspective with our counselling lead. We would still require you to have your own clinical supervisor and as a charity, we would be unable to contribute to the costs of your clinical supervision.
To apply: please submit your CV and covering letter to Rachel.Cowey@edne.org.uk.
