Make a referral
Our counselling service is for children and young people living in the West Lothian area.
Each client will be offered a maximum of 12 counselling sessions. These will take place weekly at our counselling centre in Livingston. We ask for you to commit to offering a donation of at least £10.00 per counselling session. The amount will be agreed before counselling takes place. Please note that this charge will still apply even when a counselling session is not attended.
If you are an organisation financially supporting our clients, there will be a one-off, non-refundable donation of £150.00.
If a client fails to attend a session, no additional sessions can be added. If two sessions are missed without at least 24 hours notice all counselling sessions will end.
More information will be sent to you prior to counselling sessions commencing, however if you feel you would benefit from a discussion before making a referral, please feel free to email us at [email protected]
11 -17 year old Service
Open to new referrals
18 – 24 year old Service
(Up to 26 years old with experience of Care System)
Open to new referrals
Neurodiverse Service
11 – 24 year old (up to 26 years old with experience of Care System)
Open to new referrals
We are delighted to announce that S.M.I.L.E. Counselling secured funding from the National Lottery Community fund. Over the next three years we will be able to employ counsellors to work with clients aged 11 – 15 years-old and a counsellor to work with clients who have been diagnosed with or identify as having a neurodiverse condition. A huge thank you to the National Lottery Community Fund and those who play the National Lottery for this incredible and life changing support.
With this support from the National Lottery Community Fund we will have more availability for client sessions than ever before. From Autumn we will be able to offer counselling until 7:00pm Monday to Thursday.