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Welcome to Ratcliffe & Brown

We are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to leaving a lasting legacy of improved mental health and wellbeing for our community.

We do this by focusing on three areas:

  • Developing the counsellors of tomorrow. We provide a unique and supportive environment for trainee counsellors to grow in a nurturing safe space. By enhancing their training experience, we ensure our community has a longer-lasting and more diverse professional mental health team.
  • The resilience of our frontline workers. For a community to have good mental health resources, we have to take care of our mental health workers. Ratcliffe & Brown proactively engage with frontline staff and their families to prevent burnout, stress, and compassion fatigue.
  • Building bridges within the patchwork of community resources. We partner with existing community platforms to make lasting changes. Social prescribing has become an essential part of the support network available to our community and an invaluable tool for providing free services to the more deprived areas of our community. Ratcliffe & Brown is proud to be an important provider of unique services fuelling the social prescribing model.

We are the change we wish to see. The lasting legacy starts today.

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Ratcliffe & Brown CIC | ASIST Trained Crisis Support | Social Prescribing UK | Counselling Placement Provider

How We Can Help

Referrals

We accept referrals from all Social Prescribers. Fill in our simple form to get your patient support today.

Counselling Retreats

Our retreats are available to students and qualified counsellors interested in resilience building, networking and CPD Opportunities.

Placements

To apply for a Trainee Counsellor placement, visit our "Placement Opportunities" page to submit your application.

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Ratcliffe & Brown CIC | ASIST Trained Crisis Support | Social Prescribing UK | Counselling Placement Provider

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Ratcliffe & Brown CIC offers luxury counselling retreats in Cornwall for trainee and qualified counsellors.

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Trainee Counsellor Placements 2025

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Trainee Counsellor Placements 2024

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Previous Customers We've Helped

I feel absolutely privileged to have secured a placement at Ratcliffe & Brown CIC. From the outset, I have felt supported, guided, and held to a professional standard that ensures both client wellbeing and my own development as a trainee counsellor. The emphasis on safeguarding, ethical practice, and comprehensive support…

- Placement trainee anonymous

Great workshops and training. I would highly recommend!

- Placement trainee anonymous

The training was excellent. Rachel's knowledge, experience and openness as a trainer made the experience engaging and incredibly informative. I left feeling very supported and well prepared for starting client work.

- Placement trainee anonymous

I loved and valued the training and still feel very grateful for the placement. It seems like a unique thing you are offering students which is a shame as the whole placement aspect is so stressful. I would love it if you made more of the concept of 'a dry…

- Placement trainee anonymous

Rachel is a great course leader and the course content is very well considered and delivered, and the group work is excellent

- Placement trainee anonymous