Services

What Services Are Available?

We offer a range of services such as:
  • Short-term Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy
  • Short-term Counselling
  • Short-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • Couple Counselling
  • Symptom Monitoring and Medication Review
  • Support Work
  • Behavioural Guidance
  • Guided Self Help
  • Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
  • Group Treatments


Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a practical and structured form of psychotherapy that focuses mainly on problems in the 'here and now'. The basis of CBT is that, what people think affects how they feel emotionally and also influences what they do. CBT can provide you with a greater ability to identify your problems in life and to confront them and solve them. CBT helps you to look at the way you respond to situations. By helping you to understand your reactions CBT educates you about how to change your behaviour so that it becomes more helpful and productive, and less damaging to your wellbeing and mental health.

Counselling

Counselling helps you explore and understand your difficulties and to cope better with feelings of distress or dissatisfaction. The Counsellor helps you to view things more clearly, often from a different perspective. Counselling is used to encourage you to explore various aspects of your life and feelings and to examine in detail the behaviour or situations which are proving difficult for you. As with CBT, Counselling also aims to help you initiate some changes in the way you think and behave so that you cope better with your problems and function more productively at home, at work, and in your relationships with others.

Guided Self Help & Books on Prescription

The aim of Books on Prescription is to enable people with mental health issues to have good, accessible information about their condition. Our Psychological Therapists prescribe the most appropriate Self Help books for your current problems and you collect these from your local libraries on short term loan. These prescribed books can be used by you on your own, without any professional guidance, or they can be used in conjunction with guidance from one of our Psychological Therapists. The books are prescribed as a Self Help treatment plan to help you learn basic coping strategies for managing problems such as anxiety or low mood.

Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy;

Computerised CBT is simply Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivered by an interactive computer programme. The interactive programme works with you, helping you to understand the tools of CBT and learn the techniques that will help you to cope better with problems such as anxiety, depression and phobias. We provide two computerised CBT programmes: FearFighter and Beating The Blues;

FearFighter

FearFighter delivers CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) via a computer (standalone PC or internet) for anxiety and phobias. FearFighter is an online therapy and can be accessed from home, the office or even the local library. The programme takes only three months to complete, and requires minimal telephone support. Little or no computer skills are required to use this programme.

Beating The Blues

Beating The Blues delivers CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) via the computer (standalone PC or Internet) for low mood. It has eight sessions which each last about 50 minutes. Beating the Blues is an online therapy and can be accessed from home, the office or even the local library. You do not need to be computer literate to use this programme.