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Cogwheel Counselling Cogwheel Counselling is a Cambridge-based charity that provides affordable mental health counselling

An abusive relationship may have ended years ago. You may have moved on, rebuilt your life and created a home that feels...
17/10/2026

An abusive relationship may have ended years ago. You may have moved on, rebuilt your life and created a home that feels entirely different from the one you once lived in.

But when you share children with a former partner, leaving the relationship doesn't necessarily mean leaving the person behind. There may still be messages to answer, arrangements to negotiate, handovers to navigate. School holidays, birthdays and important decisions to discuss.

Sometimes, a name appearing on your phone can still make your stomach drop. A particular tone in a message can make you question yourself or their intentions. A disagreement can bring back the urge to explain, appease or defend yourself. An upcoming handover can leave you anxious hours before it happens.

Experiences of fear, control and unpredictability can shape how we respond long after the relationship itself has ended, particularly when circumstances mean that contact has to continue.

Counselling can offer a space to explore those responses, understand where they come from and begin separating what belonged to that relationship from the life you are living now.

You can have left the relationship a long time ago and still be dealing with some of what it left behind.

Cogwheel Counselling supports people dealing with the impact of historical domestic abuse. We are not a domestic abuse or crisis support service.

For more information, visit:
https://cogwheel.org.uk

Domestic abuse isn't limited to physical violence. Someone may have controlled access to money, monitored spending, isol...
16/10/2026

Domestic abuse isn't limited to physical violence. Someone may have controlled access to money, monitored spending, isolated their partner from friends or family, repeatedly belittled or humiliated them, controlled where they went, made them frightened of the consequences of saying no, or gradually removed their independence.

When there are no physical injuries, people can sometimes struggle to give themselves permission to describe what happened as abuse. They may even compare themselves with others and conclude that somebody else “had it worse”.

In counselling you don't have to prove that your experience reaches a particular threshold before you're allowed to talk about how it affected you.

If experiences from a past relationship are still affecting your wellbeing, relationships, confidence or sense of self, counselling can give you a confidential space to explore them.

Cogwheel Counselling supports people dealing with the impact of historical domestic abuse. We are not a domestic abuse or crisis support service.

For more information, visit:
https://cogwheel.org.uk

Our Cambridge Half Marathon runners raise crucial funds to support Cogwheel Counselling. Running for Cogwheel supports t...
12/10/2026

Our Cambridge Half Marathon runners raise crucial funds to support Cogwheel Counselling.

Running for Cogwheel supports the counselling sessions of children, young people, adults and older people living within Cambridgeshire who wouldn’t be able to afford counselling without our charitable income-based structure.

If you’d like to run to raise funds for mental health within Cambridgeshire, we’d love to have you on our team!

Find out how to claim your place here:
https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/ttp-cambridge-half-marathon-2027/

Getting help shouldn’t depend on how much you can afford to pay.Cogwheel Counselling is a Cambridge based charity that p...
09/10/2026

Getting help shouldn’t depend on how much you can afford to pay.

Cogwheel Counselling is a Cambridge based charity that provides counselling for people across Cambridgeshire. Our fees are based on what each person can afford, because when someone is struggling with grief, anxiety, relationship breakdown, trauma, depression or simply reaching a point where life feels difficult to navigate, finances shouldn’t be another barrier standing between them and support.

Keeping counselling affordable is only possible with support from the community around us. Income from counselling sessions contributes towards our work, but it doesn’t cover the full cost of delivering our service. We also rely on grants, fundraising and donations from people who believe counselling should be accessible to those who need it.

Every donation helps us continue to bridge that gap.

If you would like to support affordable counselling in Cambridgeshire, please consider making a donation to Cogwheel Counselling.

💚 Donate: https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/support-us/ways-to-donate/

Arriving at University and living independently can be daunting. For some students, they’re not just away from home, but...
08/10/2026

Arriving at University and living independently can be daunting. For some students, they’re not just away from home, but in a different country altogether.

Pressure to meet new people, make friends and fit in can be overwhelming on its own, but mix in the inability to withdraw to your own home to recharge and the pressures of academic achievement and it can easily feel like you have nowhere to go to feel completely secure.

Cogwheel Counselling provides a confidential affordable service to support young people, helping you make the most of your University experience.

For more information, visit:
https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/

If you’d like to take on the challenge of running the Cambridge Half Marathon we’d love to have you on the team. Every s...
07/10/2026

If you’d like to take on the challenge of running the Cambridge Half Marathon we’d love to have you on the team. Every step you run helps us provide affordable counselling to children, young people, adults and older people across Cambridgeshire.

🏃‍♀️ Ready to run for mental health?

Find out how to claim your place here:
👉 https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/ttp-cambridge-half-marathon-2027/

Starting college or university, you can find yourself in a room full of people who don't know you, your history or anyth...
06/10/2026

Starting college or university, you can find yourself in a room full of people who don't know you, your history or anything that matters to you.

You meet people who don’t know you were the quiet one at school, or the clever one, the funny one, the anxious one. The one who never put their hand up or the one who was always expected to get the highest grade. For some people, that feels incredibly freeing for others it can feel like a loss of identity.

If you’d like some support through that transition, counselling can be a great place to anchor yourself while everything shifts.

Cogwheel provides affordable counselling for young people. Find out more:
https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/

You don't have to become the loudest version of yourself to make friends at university.Freshers' Week can create a stran...
05/10/2026

You don't have to become the loudest version of yourself to make friends at university.

Freshers' Week can create a strange illusion. Everyone seems to be making friends immediately. They’re joining societies, going to parties and sitting in kitchens with people they apparently met twelve minutes ago. Social media is filled with photographs of people who already look completely at home with people they didn’t know yesterday.

If you feel like this isn’t your own experience you might wonder: Am I doing this wrong?

Starting somewhere new can create enormous pressure to be sociable, to say yes, to keep talking, stay out late and appear like a more confident, entertaining and outgoing version of yourself.

You are not alone in this feeling and performance can be exhausting. The people you meet by chance in your first week don't have to become your lifelong friends. Some people find their community immediately. Others find it slowly, through shared interests, work, accommodation or one conversation that happens months later when everyone's defences have worn down and they’re able to relax into themselves more comfortably.

Cogwheel Counselling works with young people to help work through life's difficult moments. Find out more about our counselling services at: https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/

Cogwheel Counselling is proud to be part of the Cambridge Half Marathon 2027 - and we’re offering fundraising places to...
01/10/2026

Cogwheel Counselling is proud to be part of the Cambridge Half Marathon 2027 - and we’re offering fundraising places to people who want to make a real difference to mental health in the Cambridgeshire community.

By joining our team, you won’t just be running 13.1 miles. You’ll be helping to raise funds to support the counselling sessions for someone who wouldn’t be able to afford counselling otherwise.

🏃‍♀️ Ready to run for mental health?
Find out how to claim your place here:
👉 https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/ttp-cambridge-half-marathon-2027/

You can love someone deeply and still find caring for them incredibly difficult. Supporting someone with Alzheimer’s can...
24/09/2026

You can love someone deeply and still find caring for them incredibly difficult. Supporting someone with Alzheimer’s can bring up emotions that are uncomfortable to admit; frustration, anger, resentment, exhaustion and helplessness.

You might miss the person they used to be and resent how much your own life has changed. You might lose patience and immediately feel guilty for it.

None of those feelings cancel out love or the relationship that existed before Alzheimer’s. Caring for someone while their memory, behaviour or personality changes can fundamentally alter a relationship. Relationships are complicated enough without asking carers to feel only the “right” emotions.

Counselling can provide somewhere to say the things that feel difficult to say anywhere else, without judgement.

For more information on how Cogwheel can support you, visit:
https://www.cogwheel.org.uk/

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