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We would like to thank Poundbury Entertainments so much for their kind donation in support of our work. Pictured below is our Trustee Dave Lakins receiving the cheque from Poundbury Entertainments.

2025 is our 20th anniversary year and we would love to raise £1k to help support our work. If you would like to make a donation to us, please see our Crowdfunder page via https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/dtcp20th-anniversary-fundraiser We are so grateful for your support!

We have now said goodbye to our fantastic trustee Sandra (right) who has been such a great member of the Board and we welcome Carina to the team!  

Here is our wonderful trustee Dave Lakins accepting the kind cheque from Peter See of The Lions!

We are thrilled to welcome the Right Reverend Karen Gorham, Bishop of Sherborne as one of our patrons! The Rt Revd Gorham commented, “With increasing demand for Counselling services and issues of mental health in individuals there is a real need to continue to highlight the work of charities which promote care and wellbeing. I […]

We were so pleased that our key worker counselling scheme has appeared in local media recently! Take a look at the articles via the following links: Dorset Echo: Key workers receive free counselling from Dorchester charity | Dorset Echo Dorchester Nub News: Dorchester charity helps 89 key workers with free counselling sessions | dorchester.nub.news  Keep […]

DTCP was delighted to take part in the Rotary’s presentation evening on the 27th January via Zoom. During the evening, local Dorchester charities outlined their amazing work and Dave Lakins – one of our trustees – spoke about the work of DTCP. Following our participation in the Rotary’s Christmas Raffle, we were given £103.50 to […]

Our free counselling for key worker scheme was set up in April 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic to offer support to local key workers because of the increased stress and pressure on them during a very challenging time. We provided up to six free sessions and in exceptional circumstances 12 sessions. Key points: […]

15 delegates enjoyed the Exploring Sibling Issues in Therapy with Val Parker workshop on Saturday 9th October in Dorchester.   This was an interactive day workshop in which Val shared ideas from her recent book A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives (Routledge 2020) and encouraged us to deepen our engagement […]

We are so grateful to have received a generous grant of £5,000 from People’s Postcode Lottery- Postcode Local Trust! This money will support our important work providing low-cost counselling of up to one year to local people in need of help. Postcode Local Trust: www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk People Postcode Lottery: www.postcodelottery.co.uk