About EACS & Our Mission
Ealing Abbey Counselling Service (EACS) is an established, voluntary sector organisation offering confidential, professional help through its talking therapy provision. In the main, we are a generalist 1:1 counselling and psychotherapy service, with the addition of a small couples/relationship counselling service.
Working in partnership with other local voluntary sector and NHS providers, EACS helps bridge the gap between the constraints faced by the NHS and the alternative of private treatment. Our low-cost counselling and psychotherapy service is available to those who need a longer period of support to work through their issues; a different type of therapy from NHS talking treatments; and/or who prefer a different environment from the statutory services.
EACS is an inclusive and non-denominational organisation committed to anti-discriminatory practice: our service-users, counsellors and staff come from many varied backgrounds, demographic groups, cultures and belief systems. We welcome all minority groups and particularly encourage under-represented groups to seek our services.
Quality Assured
As an Organisational Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, we work within its ethical framework for professional practice and safeguarding. We also use nationally recognised clinical outcomes measures as an evidence base for our talking therapies.
We have a rigorous recruitment process and all counsellors and staff have enhanced DBS checks before coming on board. We are proud to provide a professional, safe and supportive environment for both our service-users and our practitioners.
Our counsellors also follow the code of ethics of the professional body affiliated to their training – normally the UKCP for psychotherapy trainees; the BACP; the BPS; or COSRT for our psychosexual / couples counsellors.
Trustees
EACS comes under the registered charitable status of the Trust of St Benedict’s Abbey, Ealing which, in addition to furthering its religious aims, also supports other ventures such as EACS for the wider public benefit. Our Trustees support EACS through use of the building at 1A Montpelier Avenue at very nominal cost. However, they have no direct day-to-day involvement in our actual service delivery and funding endeavours.