Listening Ear (Merseyside)

Who we are

• Listening Ear is a leading third sector, mental health organisation with its headquarters in Knowsley, Merseyside
• Our organisation specialises in delivering therapy and support services to children, young people and adults presenting with bereavement and traumatic loss, occupational health counselling and suicide postvention support services (please see our website for more details)
• Listening Ear holds full BACP Service Accreditation for its adult and CYP services (the first organisation to achieve BACP accreditation in Merseyside in 2004)
• We are continuing to grow and now offer services in Merseyside, Cheshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire and Suffolk

In the last four years we:

• Delivered counselling to over 5,000 adults and 4,000 children and young people
• Grew our unique suicide postvention service (Amparo) so that it now services a population of 6.1 million people (11% of the population of England)
• Delivered training in therapeutic approaches, suicide, self-harm and mental health awareness and specialist courses in bereavement and loss to over 500 front-line professionals
• Supported clinical placements for over forty counsellors in training
• Established a new department, Mindset Training, dedicated to the development of counselling professionals and supporting education in therapeutic approaches amongst a wide-range of frontline professionals