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Cornwall
Welcome! Our Wellbeing Hub in Cornwall (Truro) supports young people aged between 11-24 to improve their own mental health and wellbeing.
If you’re 11-24 and live or study in Cornwall, our programmes can support you to boost your motivation and self-worth and make positive changes in your life.
You can take a look at the three different programmes that we offer and self-refer using the form below.
If you need some time and space to think about your mental health with the support of a trained professional and you’re 11-24 in Cornwall, we can help.
Through our programmes, you will meet with a trained Brook Specialist or Counsellor at our Hub in Truro who will help you get the most from the programme and each session. We won’t judge you or tell you what to do. We’re here to listen, guide, and support you in finding meaningful ways to improve your mental health and wellbeing.
We don’t offer urgent help or mental health treatment. If you feel you need treatment or urgent help, please speak with your parents/carers or a trusted adult and/or find a support organisation.
The Mental Health Literacy Programme is all about supporting you to understand more about mental health and wellbeing and helping you feel more in control of your life.
This structured programme can help if you want to learn more about mental health. Each session will help you understand more about mental health and will cover topics including feelings, stress, and how to improve your mental health and build a support network.
Group sessions
We also offer the Mental Health Literacy Programme to small groups. These take place within schools, youth centres and similar organisations.
If you’re an organisation or school interested in arranging this for your young people, you can get in touch with us via email wellbeinghubcornwall@brook.org.uk
The My Life Programme supports you to feel more confident and learn how to improve your mental health and wellbeing in ways that matter to you. This programme can help if you have specific areas you’d like to work on.
You will have six sessions with a Brook Specialist, where you set your own goals and explore steps to reach them with support. Since everyone’s goals are different, the My Life Programme is unique for each person.
Sessions might include learning about relationships, sexual health and wellbeing and using various activities to help you reach your goals.
Counselling at the Hub takes place in a safe and welcoming space. You’ll be supported to talk about and understand events in your life that are hard, upsetting or confusing. In this programme you will usually have 8-12 sessions with a Brook Counsellor with each session lasting 50 minutes.
Counselling can help if you’re struggling with a change in your life or if you’re going through a challenging time that is affecting your mental health and wellbeing.
You can self-refer for a programme by completing our form. You can also get a trusted adult to support you to complete the form, for example your parent or carer, teacher, GP, healthcare worker.
After submitting your referral form, we’ll be in touch within 3 working days.
Please note that we are not open 24th December until 6th January. This means it may take us longer than usual to respond to your referral or email.
No, you don’t need to know which programme you want to join. However, if you do have a preference you can let us know in the form. One of our team members will always review what you’ve told us and assess which programme is best suited to your needs. If we need more information, we may get in touch with you or your trusted adult (if someone helped you fill out the form).
Brook promises to keep your information safe and protect it from being lost, damaged or shared with anyone it shouldn’t be.
If you have any questions about the use of your data you can read Brook’s full privacy notice, and read our privacy notice for this service (easy read policy notice) speak to a member of staff to ask for a paper copy or you can contact Brook’s Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@brook.org.uk or you can write to us at Data Protection Officer, Brook, PO Box 78732, London, EC2P 2TA.
It is completely your choice whether you join a programme. The programme only works if you’re actively engaged in the sessions and want to be there.
You have the right to cancel your referral at any point, if you would like to cancel your referral, please let us know at wellbeinghubcornwall@brook.org.uk
During the first session, the programme will be explained fully to you by one of our Brook Specialists or Counsellors. If, at this stage, you no longer want to participate then you can choose not to.
If you are 13-16 then you have the same rights to confidentiality as an adult. The Specialist or Counsellor will not tell your parents or anyone else, as long as they believe that you understand what you are agreeing to.
The sessions are confidential and we will not tell anyone that you saw us, or anything about what you said.
The specialist or counsellor will encourage you tell your parents, but they will not make you. That decision is yours to make.
The only time we might want to tell someone else is if we have any concerns that there is a risk to your safety or welfare. Sometimes it will necessary to share information with someone else, this will usually be discussed with you first.
If you have any questions not listed here, please get in touch with us at wellbeinghubcornwall@brook.org.uk or via our phoneline 07810118934. Phonelines are open Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm.
Unfortunately, we are not able to support with treating mental health problems or if you need help urgently. However, there are lots of places that can help.
It can be daunting taking that first step to getting help but the sooner you get help the easier it’ll be.