{"id":598255,"date":"2026-09-12T16:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T16:24:09","slug":"new-counselling-service-launches-to-support-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598255\/","title":{"rendered":"New counselling service launches to support islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service aims to help people affected by neurological illness deal with issues like diagnosis, bereavement, trauma, anxiety and emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was also set up to allow islanders with mobility or personal barriers to attend face-to-face appointments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity received a refurbished laptop and two mobile phones from JT to help counsellors manage referrals and confidential records and to communicate with clients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reid said living with a neurological condition, or supporting someone with one, could have a &#8220;significant emotional impact&#8221;, while access to specialist support could be limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the technology would help the charity provide a &#8220;safe and confidential service&#8221; to people who could be feeling isolated or overwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The service aims to help people affected by neurological illness deal with issues like diagnosis, bereavement, trauma, anxiety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-598255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}