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Blog – Thoughts on grief at Christmas time
Ailsa Hill, School Counsellor (East Lothian), offers some personal reflection and suggestions for remembering, during National Grief Awareness Week. 2020 has been such a strange and challenging year in so many ways. There has been so much talk of death and dying in the media that it’s a topic that has been more obvious to…
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Blog – Covid Needs: Levelling up
Alison Mattu, Midlothian School Counsellor, reflects on Maslow within the context of the covid pandemic. This year has been tough for many people in different ways. If you have felt worried, upset or afraid about what’s going to happen, you are not alone. For adults, children and young people, a lot has changed in our…
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Blog – Banter or Bullying?
Fran Armour, Business Support Officer, offers some personal reflection and sources of support in Anti-Bullying Week. Running from Monday the 16th of November to Friday the 20th, Anti-Bullying Week offers young people a chance to reflect on their experiences, either as the target of bullying or as the source of bullying behaviour. As a young…
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Blog – Understanding anger
Sinéad Rowe, Young Mens Therapeutic Worker, reflects on anger and what might be underneath it. Alongside joy and sadness, anger is perhaps one of the most shared emotions we experience in everyday life. Every individual experiences anger in different ways but it can easily become a ‘go-to’ emotion for young people. If we can understand…
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Blog – Young People Need Space…
Leila Coward, Youth Development Worker (LGBT+ Project), reflects on the need for young people to have safe spaces. I challenge any adult to live the life of a young person for one week and emerge saying that it was easy. Young people’s lives are complicated, with pressures looming in from every angle: from peers, from…
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Job Vacancy – School Counsellors x 4 (East Lothian)
School Counsellors x 4 (East Lothian) 35 hours per week £30,473 – £32,260 The posts are funded for an initial fixed term until 31st March 2023 (This is a three year agreement with the option of 2 additional periods of 1 year extensions). Based in Dalkeith. The postholders will be responsible for providing counselling with children…
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Job Vacancy – School Counsellor (Midlothian)
School Counsellor (Midlothian) 35 hours per week £30,473 – £32,260 Contract initially for 1 year (continuation dependent on MYPAS securing further funding). Based in Dalkeith. Responsible for providing counselling with children and young people aged 10-18 who attend school. The postholder will establish, develop, evaluate and report on, the piloting of the School Counselling service within…
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Blog – A Little Bit of Mindfulness
James Kelly, Counsellor, reflects on anxiety in young people and a shares a simple mindfulness technique. In my experience of delivering counselling over the past 12 years, I have come across a lot of young people who experience a great amount of anxiety about worrying about things that have happened in the past, or might…
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Eskvale Hockey Club – MYPAS Fundraiser
✨THANK YOU ESKVALE HOCKEY CLUB✨ for your fantastic Coastline Challenge fundraiser for MYPAS. An impressive 11595 km walked, ran and cycled – a superb collective club effort! 💛
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Blog – Changing our LGBT+ group to an online platform
From ‘In the Room’ to ‘On the Zoom’ Nicole Walsh, Youth Development Worker (LGBT Project) reflects on moving MYPAS’ services for LGBT+ young people from face to face contact to online contact. The Coronavirus pandemic has meant that we have all had to adapt and change how we live our lives. We were used to meeting up…
