Create counselling rooms that promote well-being.

The goal is to create counselling rooms that promote safety, well-being and healing for our Young People. We know that the physical environment impacts attitude, mood and behaviour because there is a strong link between our physiological and emotional states and physical environments. Therefore, intentionally designing and maintaining healing environments leads to empowerment and resists re-traumatising those who have already experienced so much trauma.

So I am helping the Young People's Counselling Team in our efforts to make the counselling rooms at York Mind more sensory calming, with such lovely things as nice lighting and comfy chairs and promoting connection with our natural world through plants and paintings. We have two rooms to go!

I am also raising money for the activities art and craft group, and you can donate here towards this too.

Every little donation will help, so please give if you can!

Big thanks, Em!

More information about YORK MIND (INCORPORATING OUR CELEBRATION) LTD: Mental illness can devastate the lives of people who experience it and the lives of their friends, family and carers. As well as the often-frightening experience of the symptoms themselves, mental illness can destroy self-esteem, confidence & motivation and in many cases leading to a downward spiral of negative feelings and a complete withdrawal from normal life.

However, although most mental illnesses are not curable, they are treatable and in the vast majority of cases with the right support.