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 and rely on the income we receive by letting out the rooms at the centre to fund our activities.

We do provide in excess of 2'000 hours of 121 low cost counselling per annum directly to the Reading community working with  

Individuals
Couples
Families
Groups
16 years and over
No upper age limit 
Long & short term work

The therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists available at Life Story are professionals who have chosen to base part of their practice at Eldon Square, Reading, Berkshire and all 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.

Training

We provide graduate training placement opportunities, usually six per annum and have well established links with both Reading and Roehampton Universities are current therapists in training are

Leon Budd	Julie Rayworth	Sharon White	Carla Marshall	Julie Newberry	Stephanie Hurlstone
Trainee Counsellor	Trainee Counsellor	Trainee Counsellor	Trainee Psychologist	Trainee Counsellor	Trainee Counsellor
Intergrative/Humanistic	CBT	Intergrative	Person Centered	Gestalt	Intergrative
Foundation Degree (FdA) Counselling	Foundation Course	Foundation Degree (FdA) Counselling	Practitioner Doctorate	Foundation Degree (FdA) Counselling	BSC Intergrative Counselling
Guildford College	Roehampton Uni	Guildford College	Roehampton Uni	Guildford College	Roehampton Uni

Supervision

We provide supervision and support for new trainees and recently accredited therapists together with business advice support in conjunction with Business Link

Graduate Supervison	CPD Supervison	Consultant Psychiatrist	Business Link Adviser
Angela Atack	Samuel Ochieng	Dr Paula Collett	Roz Jones

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
Reading University
	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	telephone  0118 956 7441