Cairns Counselling
Cairns Counselling aims to empower disadvantaged adults experiencing mental health difficulties to improve their mental health and quality of their lives by providing professional counselling by voluntary donation to remove affordability as a barrier to accessing vital mental health support.
Address
Migvie House, Ground Floor West, 23 North Silver Street, ABERDEEN
AB10 1RJ
Penumbra Mental Health
We are Penumbra Mental Health, a pioneering charity providing dedicated services for people with mild to serious and enduring mental ill health.
We support people on their journey to better mental health, by working with each person to find their own way forward. The power of people’s lived experience enables us to provide pioneering services which transform lives.
Address
20 Back Wynd, Aberdeen
AB101JP
YOGI & CINDY BEARS
Yogi and Cindy Bears are a team of Newfoundland dogs fully trained in Water Rescue, Animal Assisted Activities and as Therapy Dogs.
At Yogi and Cindy Bears we promote ‘The Provisions and the Training of Assistance / Therapy Dogs’. We provide an alternative type of therapy to medications, which comes under the realm of Animal Assisted Intervention.
Our Community Dog program Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) techniques is the term given to interventions where a specially trained dog and professional handler work together, in conjunction with a human services professional (eg therapist, social care practitioner, teacher or healthcare provider), to promote improvements in the physical, social, emotional and/or cognitive functioning of a person. These interventions are designed to meet particular goals to support that individual’s needs.
Goals can be very varied and may include helping with:
Working with companies and staff to prevent falling into Mental ill Health.
Building self-esteem.
Overcoming anxiety and building confidence.
Accessing the community.
Social interaction with others.
Assisting individuals with assistant dogs
Physical mobility, eg fine and gross motor skills.
Changing patterns of behaviour.
Address
9 Dunlin Court, Newtonhill
AB39 3QW
