Hello Everyone,
Let me start by asking 3
simple questions. Firstly, what comes to mind when you hear the name Lifeline? Secondly,
do you often find yourself saying that you are fine even when you are not
because you do not want to be judged for being honest about your feelings? Lastly,
when was the last time you felt understood and listened to? While you think
about the answers to those questions, let me tell you about Lifeline Pretoria.
Lifeline is a
non-governmental, non-profit, community based organization of trained staff and
volunteer counsellors who offer free confidential counselling to people facing
personal problems. Lifeline counsellors help by caring, listening and
respecting their clients and treating them with dignity. The counsellors strive
to listen, accept and understand people as they are through empathy. They recognise
the importance of feelings and the way feelings affect how people behave and cope
with life’s problems. Lifeline aims to enable people to face their problems
with hope and confidence.
Lifeline Pretoria has four
centres in and around Pretoria. The main centre, which is in Val De Grace,
offers both telephone counselling and face to face counselling (by appointment)
and the three other centres; Queenswood, Mamelodi, and Soshanguve offer face to
face counselling only (also by appointment). A comprehensive list of the
offered services include: relationship counselling, telephone counselling, face
to face counselling (by appointment), rape counselling, trauma counselling,
HIV/AIDS counselling and training and outreach programmes for other welfare
organizations and the broader community.
In addition to the services
offered to the community, we also offer two important courses; the personalgrowth course and counselling skills course. The two courses are a pre-requisite if you
want to become a volunteer counsellor at Lifeline.
I hope that after reading
about Lifeline you are able to answer these three questions:
·
What is Lifeline?
·
What does it do?
·
How is it relevant to me?
In case you need to talk, give us a call or make an appointment to see one of our trained counsellors, they are here to listen.
LIFELINE
PRETORIA CONTACT DETAILS:
PHYSICAL
ADDRESSES:
MAIN
CENTRE:
71 Watermeyer Street (Cnr.
Naboom & Stamvrug, entrance in Stamvrug)
Val de Grace
Office
Telephone: 012 804 1853
Crisis
Line: 012 804 3619
Rape
Crisis: 082 340 2061
Email: reception.lifeline.pta@gmail.com
website:http://lifelinepta.org.za/
SOSHANGUVE:
Soshanguve Community Centre,
NAFCOC Shopping Centre,
Block F,
Buitekant Street,
Soshanguve
Contact
no:
079 644 8644
MAMELODI:
Education Block: Itsoseng
Clinic
Mamelodi Campus
University of Pretoria
(previously Vista University)
Mamelodi
Office
no:
012 842 3726
Cell
no:
072 592 2858
QUEENSWOOD:
Adami Centre (opposite
Christ the King Church)
Cnr Wren Avenue &
Woodlands Drive
Queenswood
Pretoria
Contact
no:
012 804 1853
Lifeline Pretoria is a member of Lifeline Southern Africa and Lifeline International.
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