INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING

The goal of individual and group counselling is to help and improve the everyday functioning of the client. A major focus of counselling involves helping the client to identify, understand and reflect on his or her difficulties and find effective coping strategies so he or she may begin to fulfill their potential, achieve more satisfaction, and restore a sense of well-being into their lives.

This can be achieved by helping the client to develop skills, find solutions, make decisions, and develop effective coping strategies to deal with the stresses of everyday life. Counselling is also used to explore the deep rooted problems that can often suppress or stunt the client's autonomy, passion and personal power.

An emphasis is placed on a holistic approach to counselling. BAC-IN believes in providing care and services that includes the unique physical, social, psychological, emotional, spiritual and cultural needs of each client.

A Holistic approach is used that reaches a broader range of healing possibilities for the whole person by involving these dimensions collectively for effective & lasting healing from substance dependency.

ADDICTION THERAPY

BAC-IN provides a therapeutic counselling service for African/Caribbean, South Asian and Dual Heritage communities that addresses their cultural concerns, acknowledges their cultural experiences and also explores the underlying psychological/ emotional/spiritual causes that can under-pin the drug and alcohol addiction.

The illness of addiction wounds many aspects of the unique person; the therapy is purposefully designed to treat these aspects of the person to bring him or her to a new life and a new way of being. The treatment plan begins by identifying all the underlying issues of distress that move a person to chemicals and or other destructive behaviours.

Issues such as internalised racism ostracism, oppression, discrimination, exploitation, prejudice, trauma, anxiety, abuse, depression, feelings of not fitting in, not belonging, issue's with cultural/racial identity, spirituality, shame, cultural displacement, family pressures or other personal disadvantages.

The treatment plan then combines life-changing experiences that can revive and awaken the person's sense of integrity, sense of self-worth, sense of purpose, also enhance his or her capacity for self-empowerment and self autonomy.