Our Clinical Update 2024

At the Headlight Project, we exist to be a guiding light when the road ahead is dark. In 2024, we saw a 17% increase in referrals compared to the previous year – 244 people reached out for support. Our adult service rose by 15%, and our children’s service by 19%.

We also delivered 2,359 counselling sessions – 31% more than in 2023. Every one of those sessions represents a story, a struggle, and, hopefully, the start of a path toward healing.

Below is one of those stories we’ve been given permission to tell.

Client A was a young mother of two – her youngest just four months old – when she came to us. Her dad had died by suicide 9 weeks prior to her referral following an ongoing struggle with his mental health over the years which he sometimes showed but mostly hid.  She came to us early in her grief while on maternity leave and was struggling with feelings of disbelief, disconnection and numbness.  She was a busy young mother of two who was trying to balance this life alongside the loss of her dad, who she loved dearly.  She was keen to access therapy through Headlight, as she knew she needed the support, but had the added complication of childcare.   She had no one available to care for her youngest child, which limited her accessing other services for support at her time of need.  Headlight agreed to let he bring her youngest to one session to assess whether providing the therapy with an infant present was a viable option.  It was.  The baby slept while Mum engaged in the session and future sessions were arranged roughly around nap times.  Through safely adapting to the client’s situation, we were able to offer her the much-needed support she needed.

Below is some of her feedback we recently received.

“I just wanted to feedback how incredibly amazing your service is, me and my brother have had such helpful support so far, we’re so lucky to have our counsellors available to us. 

Lucia is mine and I can particularly speak about how fantastic she is. She speaks to me like a real person, not like a client that she has to be careful around. She speaks to me on levels that absolutely no other person could ever gift, she really is an outstanding person and counsellor which I am sure you very well know already! She keeps things so real and explains from different perspectives without ever judging or changing my mind, she helps to see the real picture and I’m in such a better place since meeting her.”