We’re a team of qualified and experienced counsellors based at Alphacom House, Oakhill Road in Horsham.
We operate as a Community Interest Company (CIC), our social mission is to offer an affordable community based counselling service to adults, children and young people in Horsham, Crawley and the surrounding areas..
Our counselling team can help support you if you are experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, bereavement, relationship difficulties or simply if you want to make some changes in your life. We aim to see you as promptly as we can and with flexibility around appointments. We are committed to working at your pace – so we can offer both short and long term therapy.
COVID-19 outbreak
As a result of the government’s change in guidance we have now suspended all face to face counselling at Alphacom House but we are still open. We also have a page of resources and signposting around COVID-19 which we hope will help, just click here
We are open for telephone assessments for counselling. Our counselling team have transitioned to counsel our existing clients by telephone and via the internet. Please be aware we do have a waiting list to begin counselling.
We know that this is is a difficult time – you’re welcome to contact us via phone or email.
Due to the outbreak our admin team are working on reduced hours currently – we are open Mon-Thurs 9am-12 then 1pm to 3pm and Fridays 9am-12.30pm. Outside of these times please leave a message or send us an email and we will come back to you.
In the meantime if you should need urgent mental health support for any reason please call the Sussex Mental Healthline on 0300 5000 101 (manned 24 hours a day).
For updates on NHS guidance on COVID please go to https://111.nhs.uk/covid-19
Wait times
We have high levels of demand for our adult counselling service at present – please read this page for more information about our current wait times.
Looking for support for an employee?
If you are an employer looking for counselling assistance for your employees please click on the tab at the top of this page.
If you are coming for counselling via your employer please click here
Looking for counselling support for a child or young person?
You can read more information about our Parent Adolescent Child team’s work here.
Next steps….
We hope you’ll find the information on these pages helpful – please use the links above to read more about our service. To enquire about an initial appointment use our contact form or call us on 01403 217900.
Privacy and Personal Data
We have updated our Privacy Notice to reflect the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). This contains all the information you may need about the personal data we collect from you and the use of this website.
Our counselling team….
In addition to our qualified counsellors’ we also have a number of counsellors in training who are based with us whilst working towards their professionally recognised counselling qualifications.
Recruitment for clinical placements
Applications from qualified counsellors are very welcome at any time, please email [email protected]
Research… HCCG is from time to time engaged in research projects with educational institutions aimed at increasing our understanding of how we deliver our services to you. We will always let you know if we have a research project running and give you more information.
