TalkingZone provides free counselling to children & young people from 3 years of age up to their 19th birthday who live in the Newport area. TalkingZone is based in every secondary school in Newport with on-site counsellors, and provides a peripatetic service to all primary schools within the city. TalkingZone also provides a limited community service to those young people who are not in mainstream education, employment or training.

As well as our counsellors that provide face to face counselling, TalkingZone Online is an additional place which is safe and private where young people can talk to a counsellor via text chat or find help about some of the things that may be worrying them. TalkingZone offers the online counselling service for young people aged between 11-17 years. Online Counsellors are available each Thursday between 6pm-8pm. The TalkingZone Online website also provides self help information and videos which are available 24hrs a day 7 days a week.

Find out how you can access the service. Including information about counselling provision within Primary and Secondary Schools, plus our Community Based Counselling Service.