Our history...

Time to Listen, is a ‘not for profit’ organisation, which provides counselling and therapeutic services to Hull and the surrounding area. The service specialises in supporting children, young people and families with their emotional and mental health, offering early intervention to enable, maintain and improve wellbeing and life opportunities. Time to Listen has vast experience of working with attachment issues and developmental trauma and is registered with Ofsted as an Adoption Support Agency.

At Time to Listen we believe that:

-Families are the building blocks of communities.

-Communities comprise families who share common attitudes, interests, values and goals, resulting in feelings of belonging and caring for each other.

-Supporting vulnerable families at the earliest possible stage equips them with skills to raise well-adjusted children, enabling families to become strong community building blocks.

-Today’s well-adjusted children can be tomorrow’s parents who carry forward those skills to raise the next generation of well-adjusted children, to build future communities.

The service does not receive any financial support from the local authority or the NHS, though we are constantly seeking external funding from charities and other grant providers in order to provide free access to our services for anyone living in Hull. Though there are services offering counselling for children and young people many have specific criterion which needs to be met i.e. diagnosed mental health problem, being in receipt of certain benefits or the local authority have a statutory duty to assist. However, there are a large proportion of children, young people and their families, in and around the city of Hull, that do not meet these criteria and they are not in a position to pay for private therapy, which is often all that is available to them.

We are unique in that we are able to provide access to a wide range of therapeutic interventions with one simple request. The ‘one-stop-shop’ approach ensures that there is a fast response and eliminates the problem of searching around for a therapist to meet the needs of the individual.