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Health and wellbeing service

Get access to coaching to help with your mental and physical health, your social situation, addictions or your living conditions.

Health coaching

The Health and Wellbeing Team provides health coaching to help you address any health
and wellbeing issues that you may have. We will support you to develop a plan to address
issues that influence your health and wellbeing.

The team adopts a coaching approach to support as we believe that people have a key
part to play in achieving their goals and outcomes. Using coaching facilitates behaviour
change and helps you to take control of your issues, by developing coping mechanisms and
helping you to build resilience.

Our aim is to help you achieve a good life by addressing any factors that are impacting
you. This could be relating to your mental and physical health, your social situation,
addictions or your living conditions.

We will work with you to build relationships with friends, family and the community in
which you live.

If you are supported by another agency, with your consent, we will work collaboratively
with the agency in supporting you. For example, this could be your social worker,
probation officer or recovery worker.

What can you expect from the team

We will help you to complete a wellbeing assessment that will identify with you what areas of your life you need support with. This wellbeing assessment will be used to agree with you an initial plan. 
Whilst working with your Health and Wellbeing Coach (HAWC) you can expect the following:  

  • be treated with respect and dignity at all times 
  • help and support to improve your overall health and wellbeing 
  • support to enable you to achieve what is important to you
  • at times being challenged to think about things differently
  • encouragement to access the local community, become more active and improve your lifestyle and independence 
  • provide 'tools' to help you make positive changes to your life 
  • help to manage risk

Request help online

Anyone over the age of 16 can access support from the Health and Wellbeing Team. All we ask is that you are committed to working through your concerns. 

Request help via our online form

You can also contact us via e-mail: contacthealthandwellbeing.waf@cumbria.gov.uk 

Attend a drop-in session

We also have a range drop-ins available across Westmorland and Furness. You do not need an appointment. If you would like to have a conversation with a member of the team they can be found at the below venues: 

Barrow 

  • Mondays, 10am to midday at Women Community Matters
  • Thursdays, 2pm to 4pm at Barrow Library

Kendal 

Windermere    

Ambleside 

Penrith