Wellspring provides affordable, professional Counselling for adults local to Nailsea and surrounding towns and villages, as well as Donation-based Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for young people age 11-18. Many of the CBT sessions for young people take place in local Secondary Schools thanks to a grant from The National Lottery.


Wellspring was established as a registered charity in 1994 by local Church Leaders and GPs. Wellspring offers confidential help and support to people in our local community. We offer our services to all who seek help whatever your gender, ethnic origin or religious beliefs.

Wellspring offers a unique service in the North Somerset area making Counselling accessible to all in a timely and cost effective manner. Clients all self-refer to Wellspring, often after being recommended to come to us by their GP. Wellspring is well respected in the area and has excellent links with local GPs and use their premises for evening and Young People sessions.  

Wellspring currently has no statutory funding but receives grants and donations from many local town and parish councils in North Somerset as well as local churches, other groups Trusts, individuals and through fundraising events.

Wellspring has a team of dedicated, professional  Counsellors who provide sessions for adults facing loss and bereavement, relationship difficulties, stress and anxiety, depression and issues resulting from physical, sexual or emotional abuse as well as other distressing situations. Our adult clients come from all walks of life from age 19 upwards.  

Our Donation-based Young People Service provides Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)  for Young People between ages 11 and 18.

Our Counsellors and CBT Wellbeing Practitioners are professionally trained, have regular Clinical Supervision and engage in Continued Professional Development (CPD) as recommended by BACP.  Wellspring Counselling is an organisational member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and abides by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

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Wellspring Counselling is governed by a board of Trustees - you can meet them here.

See our latest news and events top right.

A recent alternative group Christmas Card organised by the congregation of Nailsea Methodist Church, raised a wonderful £250. Thank you to the designer of the card for her inspirational and beautiful card and thank you to all who donated for their generosity.

Christchurch Nailsea and Tickenham chose Wellspring as the charity for their Annual Giving Day and raised an impressive £714.50. Thank you for your ongoing support and generosity.

Waitrose in Nailsea chose Wellspring as one of their charities for their green token scheme in December 2019 which raised £350. Thank you to everyone who put their tokens in for Wellspring.

Thank you to the many others who have raised funds for Wellspring during 2019. Without the generosity of local people Wellspring would not be able to continue supporting so many local people each week.

Wellspring offers professional and affordable Counselling to anyone seeking help. Our young people service also offers Donation-based Counselling and CBT to many local young people age 11-18 each week.

For as little as £5 per month you could become a ‘Friend of Wellspring’. By joining this growing community of Wellspring supporters you will be helping us create regular accessible funds to help secure these services both now and in the future. We invite you to offer us a regular donation, ideally by standing order which, if you are a taxpayer, can be gift aided (please use the blank standing order/gift aid form - please complete and return by post to Wellspring).

By doing this you can help Wellspring in the following ways.  In one year:

  - £5 per month helps provide two sessions of young people Counselling
  - £10 per month helps us provide a Counselling room for 20 sessions
  - £20 per month will help provide Counselling for 1 client (based on an average of six sessions)

For more information on how to help Wellspring please call us on 01275 810879.

Wellspring serves the communities of Nailsea & Backwell, Clevedon, Portishead and surrounding towns and villages.

Thanks to Grete Howard for generously giving Wellspring permission to use some of her photos in our Website.