Psychological therapy is often more commonly known as ‘talking therapy’. We use evidence-based models, which can be useful for people with certain types of psychological or emotional-related difficulties, such as:

• Anxiety
• Depression or Low Mood
• Panic Attacks
• Health Anxiety
• Phobias
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Complex Trauma; they may experience adverse experiences throughout life.
• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), compulsive behaviours such as checking, counting, hand-washing and intrusive thoughts or images that feel disturbing or do not seem to go away.
• Complex or atypical bereavement.

If a client is receiving support from the community mental health team (CMHT), if appropriate we can offer psychological therapy in con-junction.

We also provide group psychological therapy support. Our current groups run for a period between 8 to 12 weeks. These are either online or face-to-face. Our current groups are as follows,

• Survive and Thrive Group: teaching coping strategies to people who have experienced trauma or PTSD.
• Compassionate Focused Therapy Group (CFT Group): offering strategies for learning self-compassion and compassion for others as a way of managing inner experiences of shame or guilt.
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT Group): teaching and training of mindfulness strategies for managing experiences of depression or anxiety.
• Change-Up Group: offering group therapy for people with either mild to moderate mental health problems.

Therapy can help people to:

• Understand their current problems and how they have arisen
• Learn how to deal with them in helpful ways (by identifying their own inner resources, identifying and enabling engagement with other appropriate resources and by enabling helpful changes in lifestyle and thinking)

Male Survive & Thrive Group Video: