Steven Lean launched Lincoln Counselling in April 2020.
A Lincoln counsellor launched his own support service during the coronavirus pandemic and has seen an increase in demand in recent months, even over the Christmas period.
Steven Lean, 42, started Lincoln Counselling after spending eight years training and working in the industry. Lincoln Counselling focuses on areas such as anxiety, depression and relationship concerns.
In recent months, Steven said he has seen a big increase in people needing support, partly caused by social restrictions during the pandemic which has created a change in how our relationships function, often leading to strain, tension and difficulties within ourselves and with significant others.
Lincoln Counselling welcomes individuals, couples, schools and businesses to get in touch; offering its confidential service.
Lincoln Counselling has increased availability and so is now available seven days a week from 9am to 9pm.
It is available seven days a week from 9am to 9pm and is priced between £35 and £65 depending what is required. Counselling for individuals starts at £35 and for couples at £55.
Counselling is also available for businesses to help them support their staff.
Lincoln Counselling is based at Greetwell Place in Lincoln.
Steven worked in drug rehabilitation in Devon eight years ago before moving into the volunteer sector and working for organisations such as Red Cross, as well as in mental health units.
Steven has trained and worked in the industry for around eight years.
He told The Lincolnite: “What I’ve seen is an increase in demand for counselling, specifically with anxiety, depression and relationship concerns.
“We have seen much change in how we function as individuals, as families and as a society during this COVID pandemic.
“Much of this change presents itself as confusion of what and who we are, creating pressures that weren’t that before. The distractions of old have disappeared.
“I see that counsellors will play a critical role in how children and adults come to terms with uncertainty having had old plans stripped away from under all of us. There are many counsellors out there and companies trying to offer support, please reach out and get in touch.”
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Police and the Health and Safety Executive are investigating the death of a man at a hotel in Immingham on Wednesday, which is currently being treated as unexplained.
Humberside Police detectives and scene crime officers, as well as paramedics, attended the scene on Pelham Road on January 27 after a report that a body had been found at Silver City Hotel at 10am.
Officers were seen using a side door to enter a property behind the hotel.
A spokesperson for Humberside Police said: “On arrival at the hotel officers found that a man had sadly died.
“His family have been informed and are being supported by local officers.
“The man’s death is currently being treated as unexplained and Humberside Police, along with the Health and Safety Executive are conducting a joint investigation into the circumstances.”
Staff from Cadent Gas were also spotted at the scene.
Cadent Gas said it was called out after reports of a gas escape.
A small gas leak was found inside Silver City Hotel, which has now been made safe.
A man who was caught with thousands of indecent images of children after police arrested him in his car has avoided jail at Lincoln Crown Court.
Officers received information that Anthony Burke, 65, had been downloading the illegal images and in January 2020 tracked him down to an industrial estate at Caythorpe Heath near Grantham, where he was living in his car.
Victoria Rose, prosecuting, told the court: “The defendant was found in a Sherpa van. He was living in that van and there was a bed in it.
“Another vehicle linked to Burke was nearby. In that vehicle there was a computer hard drive which contained indecent images of children.”
Miss Rose said that a total of 4,181 indecent images of children were on the hard drive of which 344 were classified as being in the most serious category.
The images, which had been downloaded between March 2015 and December 2017, showed children as young as four years old being abused.
When Burke was interviewed by police, he admitted what he had been doing.
Miss Rose told the court: “He said he knew it was wrong but he became addicted.”
Anthony Burke, 65, of Caythorpe Heath, Caythorpe, admitted four charges of possessing indecent images of children.
He was given a 15-month jail sentence suspended for two years with 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days. He was also given a five-year sexual harm prevention order.
Mark Watson, in mitigation, said that Burke’s life was at a low ebb at the time following the death of his mother from cancer followed by his wife being diagnosed with the disease.
“Until that point the defendant didn’t have a computer.
“Computers and the internet were alien to him. Having gained access to the worldwide web he also began looking at these images and his interest became an addiction.”
He said that Burke had no convictions for any similar offence and had not accessed any illegal images for over three years having stopped looking at them.
A mother of three from Horncastle has been reunited with her “best friend”, Batman the cat, after he went missing for five months.
Taryn Burn, 23, said Batman, 4, went missing in August but initially didn’t think much of it because he liked exploring the area.
After a couple of days there was still no sign of him, so Taryn started searching all the places Batman would normally go to, but had no luck.
There were a few false alarms along the way, including a possible sighting near an industrial estate in Horncastle.
Taryn borrowed a cat trap from cat protection for three months in the hope of finding Batman, but there was still no sign of him.
Batman is a much-loved part of the family. | Photo: Taryn Burn
With Christmas on the horizon, Taryn’s oldest child Bentley, 5, said that Santa knew where Batman was and would bring him home on Christmas Eve, but sadly as 2020 ended he still wasn’t home.
Taryn told The Lincolnite: “It was devastating knowing that there was a possibility of having to break my child’s heart.
“I spend many nights walking around the fields trying to find him, going backwards and forwards daily.”
He may not look it, but rest assured Batman is happy to be home. | Photo: Taryn Burn
She never gave up, and continued to post on community Facebook pages until she finally had the breakthrough she’d been waiting for.
On Wednesday, January 27, Taryn was made aware of a post online saying that a cat had been spotted, so within minutes she raced to the area and saw him there.
“He was sat on top of a shed, as we called his name he let out the biggest meow”, Taryn said.
Aaaaaaand relax. | Photo: Taryn Burn
“Honestly the amount of joy I felt, I just could not stop crying.
“This was the same place that I had checked weekly, so we must have missed each other each time for five months.”
Batman started life with his family in similar circumstances, as Taryn found him roaming the streets of Skegness alone at just four weeks old.
Taryn described Batman as her “best friend” and said his presence helped her though a difficult stage of her life.
Batman can get back to snuggling with Taryn’s daughter Brooke, 3. | Photo: Taryn Burn
“When my daughter was born, she was born poorly and spent eight and a half months in hospital in Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham before she came home.
“Batman was my rock, he was always there when I needed someone. For most people a cat is just a cat, but to me he’s my best friend.”
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