Mothertongue is a culturally sensitive, professional counselling and listening service where people are heard with respect in their chosen language. The charity offers holistic support to people and professional development to staff and volunteers from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. The language support offered, in partnership with agencies such as The Citizen's Advice Bureau, can, for some, be the difference between settling well and integrating productively, or getting into severe difficulties.
We have accredited professional counsellors who speak a minimum of two languages, a team of multi-lingual cross-cultural volunteers who deliver support to clients. We deliver counselling and practical language support in over twenty languages and can offer support in other languages through trained and culturally sensitive interpreters. The BACP accredits only the counselling provision within our service and not our other activities.
Mothertongue is a charity limited by guarantee, governed by a board of trustees.
We have accredited professional counsellors who speak a minimum of two languages, a team of multi-lingual cross-cultural volunteers who deliver support to clients. We deliver counselling and practical language support in over twenty languages and can offer support in other languages through trained and culturally sensitive interpreters. The BACP accredits only the counselling provision within our service and not our other activities.
Mothertongue is a charity limited by guarantee, governed by a board of trustees.
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The counselling model, which has been developed by Mothertongue, underpins all of the work that we do.
Recruiting staff and volunteers from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds to create a familiar and welcoming background for clients and to provide appropriate role models.
Offering a real understanding and a commitment to learning about people's differing cultures.
Recognising that many of our clients will not respond well to a completely non- directive method and so providing, where appropriate, a more structural approach to the counselling, with psycho-educational input and information sharing.
Recruiting staff and volunteers from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds to create a familiar and welcoming background for clients and to provide appropriate role models.
Offering a real understanding and a commitment to learning about people's differing cultures.
Recognising that many of our clients will not respond well to a completely non- directive method and so providing, where appropriate, a more structural approach to the counselling, with psycho-educational input and information sharing.
Over the past ten years Mothertongue has been developing its culturally sensitive model of counselling in Reading and the surrounding areas.
Mothertongue is unusual in that it has always sought to work with people across a broad range of black and minority ethnic (BME) communities rather than focusing on a single ethnic group.
It does this, for example, by using a culturally sensitive client-centred approach to counselling, and by recognising the effect of the stress of acculturation faced by members of the BME community.
Mothertongue is unusual in that it has always sought to work with people across a broad range of black and minority ethnic (BME) communities rather than focusing on a single ethnic group.
It does this, for example, by using a culturally sensitive client-centred approach to counselling, and by recognising the effect of the stress of acculturation faced by members of the BME community.
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