Adjusting to life after you or a loved one experiences a traumatic injury can be incredibly difficult. You will experience a range of emotions, from anxiety and frustration to grief. Counselling can help you navigate this journey.
Fill out our referral form and we’ll be in touch to talk about how counselling could help you.
You will face many changes after a traumatic injury. Loved ones may have to take on a caring role. You may not be able to do everything you did before your injury. The emotional scars might remain even after time has passed.
Day One offers counselling to people who have experienced catastrophic injuries and their loved ones. We fund counselling for partners, family members and friends at any point. We also fund counselling for individuals who have been through major trauma once they have left hospital and are not receiving NHS counselling.
Counselling can help you:
- Process your feelings
- Address worries
- Feel supported
- Come to terms with changes to your life after your or your loved one’s traumatic injury.
Day One can fund up to six sessions of one-to-one telephone counselling sessions for people aged 18 or over.
Our approved provider, ASSIST Trauma Care, will offer an assessment to find out how counselling can best help you. They will then make a tailored plan to meet your needs.
What to expect
Complete our referral form and someone from Day One will get in touch to find out more about you and your needs. If counselling is appropriate, we’ll complete a referral to our specialist counselling provider ASSIST with you.
Everybody is different and there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to counselling. In their first call with you, an ASSIST counsellor will ask you some questions to help them personalise the counselling they’ll provide.
You’ll then receive up to six sessions of counselling over the phone. Afterwards, you’ll be asked for your feedback on how it went.
ASSIST Trauma Care are our approved counselling provider. ASSIST specialise in counselling for people who have experienced trauma. Their therapists have been trained to use evidence-based models to help people rebuild their lives and move on following a traumatic experience that has impacted them.
ASSIST generally offer up to six sessions of person-centred cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). ASSIST describes this as: “the combination of therapeutic models that have been shown to work and which provide an individual with important coping strategies and tools, combined with respect for and understanding of people as human-beings.”
All of ASSIST’s counsellors are accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), guaranteeing a high standard of professional care.
Find out more about ASSIST on their website
Gary's Story
Gary was rushed to Leeds Major Trauma Centre in 2024 after he fell 20ft from a roof. He suffered multiple serious injuries and was supported by Day One.
Day One stayed in touch with Gary and his family after he was discharged from hospital. A Day One Outreach Worker, Amanda, arranged for Assist to get in touch with Gary for counselling. Gary said: “I don’t know what we would have done without Day One by our side. At one stage I thought I was going to die. The counselling helped me massively as I felt like I’d fallen off a cliff emotionally after being positive for so long.”
