{"id":29308,"date":"2022-05-20T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.helsinkimissio.fi\/?page_id=29308"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:40:41","slug":"for-adults","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.helsinkimissio.fi\/en\/for-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"For Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do you feel like an outsider in the company of others? Are you longing for relationships in your life? We offer adults counselling appointments with a professional free of charge. The goal of the appointments is to alleviate and help you understand your own experience. On our website, you can find a lot of information about loneliness, how to face it and how to fight against it. With our workbook, you can also work on your loneliness independently.
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Do not hesitate to contact us: Together we can overcome loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Centre for Loneliness Expertise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Centre for Loneliness Expertise offers services that reduce loneliness, such as counselling for loneliness and the Loneliness self-help guide. The services are available nationwide via remote connections. Check out all of our services!<\/p>\n\n\n <\/main>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Counselling for loneliness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We offer adults appointments with a professional and various tools to alleviate and help you face your feelings of loneliness, all free of charge. Loneliness as an adult is a distressing experience, but help is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Loneliness self-help guide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HelsinkiMissio\u2019s Loneliness self-help guide<\/strong> is suitable for anyone who wants to stop to think about loneliness and explore the thoughts, feelings and practices related to it. The workbook can help you find new perspectives on your relationships and ways to alleviate loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also check out MentalHub\u2019s self-help programme for loneliness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is loneliness?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One in ten people in Finland suffer from harmful loneliness. Loneliness is even more common among young people: About 14% of lower secondary school pupils and students in upper secondary education as well as almost a quarter of students in higher education experience loneliness. Loneliness is one of the biggest health risks for the elderly. However, loneliness is something that can be influenced. Join us in learning about loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meeting Place in S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our meeting place in S\u00f6rn\u00e4inen offers free counselling and companionship from volunteers \u2013 also without an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work against violence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aggredi is a form of work developed by HelsinkiMissio that focuses on perpetrators of violence outside the home and that has been operating in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area since 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal of Aggredi is to reduce or stop the violent behaviour. Aggredi offers an opportunity to deal with problems arising from violence on neutral ground. The work is carried out on a case work basis for each individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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