We are currently updating our referral process and launching a new system of how people can access our services. This will be completed in May 2025, for the moment please complete a self-referral form on the ‘contact us’ page.
There is only one pathway to access our services – Listening Spaces – For Open Conversations
If you are over 18 and live within a 20km radius of Ripon, North Yorkshire you can access an free session at one of our Listening Spaces by completing a full self-referral on our contact page and ticking which Listening Space you can attend – (Ripon, Knaresborough or daytime telephone call). If we feel our services are appropriate for you we then offer.
1. Twenty free counselling sessions with one of our university student placement counsellors
2. Subsidised therapy with one of our experienced therapists £45 per session – evidence of benefits will discount this cost
3. Access to our free, subsidised and fund-raising wellness events and classes (see Events page).
4. Appropriate signposting.
Ripon Listening Space is sponsored by
Knaresborough Listening Space is sponsored by
We are pleased to say that we are an approved organisation working in conjunction with Living Well North Yorkshire who are the contracted provider for the four Primary Care Networks across Harrogate and Rural District to deliver a social prescribing service across seventeen GP Practices. Social prescribing (also known as community referral) allows GPs, nurses and other healthcare workers to signpost patients to support outside of health services, through community organisations, local support groups and holistic hubs. Social prescribing can be accessed through self-referral, mental health and social care services, pharmacists and hospitals.
Primary Care Networks help integrate primary care with secondary and community services, and bridge a gap between general practice and emerging Integrated Care Systems. GP practices are working together with community, mental health, social care, pharmacy, hospital and voluntary services in their local areas in groups of practices known as primary care networks (PCNs). PCNs build on existing primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home. Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve.
Please signpost individuals to our contact page.