Charitable Trust

Established in 1995 Life Story Charitable Trust makes available the benefits of counselling and psychotherapy to the widest possible number of people within the Reading, Berkshire community with the provision for budget and affordable counselling. We receive no external funding support from any agencies or organisations to fund our activities.

We currently provide in excess of 1'000 hours of 121 low cost counselling per annum directly to the Reading community (with capacity to increase this up to 4800 hours) working with  

Individuals
Couples
Families
Groups
Children 4 yrs and over - thro Play Therapy
Young People 18 years and over
No upper age limit 
Long & short term work

The therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists available at Life Story are all professionals who have a commitment to the centre's community.

They are a highly professional, multi-skilled team drawn from relevant professions and industry, offering a wide range of therapeutic services and are experienced in a variety of counselling techniques.

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Training

We provide graduate training placement opportunities and have well established links with both Reading and Roehampton Universities our current therapists in training are

Laura Payne

Graduate Supervison

Barbara Perry

We also work with the following organisations locally

Local NHS
	The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme aims to improve access to evidence based talking therapies  in the NHS  through an expansion of the psychological therapy workforce and services	www.iapt.nhs.uk
	The Department of Psychology has a long-standing reputation for excellence in experimental psychology, perception, learning, memory and skilled performance.
	The Charlie Waller Institute provides high quality workshops in addition to both a Certificate and Diploma in evidence-based psychological treatment. These workshops and courses are delivered only by nationally and internationally recognised clinical academics who are leaders in their field.	www.reading.ac.uk/charliewaller
Local Agencies
	One Step at a time  Supporting young people and vunerable adults	www.onestepatatime.org.uk
	Charlie Waller Memorial Trust aims to raise awareness of the nature and dangers of depression	www.cwmt.org
		www.mothertongue.org.uk
	The Foundation Drug & Alcohol Service 79A London Street Reading Berkshire RG1 4QA	0118 956 7441