How NHS Talking Therapies can help you

We offer a number of different one-to-one therapies, including:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Guided self-help (CBT)
• Counselling for depression
• Couples counselling
• Interpersonal therapy
• Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing

Appointments are available between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday but there are also opportunities to have therapy in the evenings.

We’ll ask you to complete a short questionnaire before each session, so we can better understand your symptoms.

We run several group therapy sessions which are led by NHS Talking Therapies professionals.

You can find out more information about group therapy here.

Getting a job and keeping it can be difficult when you’re feeling the effects of stress, anxiety or depression.

If the NHS Talking Therapies team find your mental health issues are affecting your employment, or vice versa, our employment advisors will work alongside them to help you achieve your ambitions in the workplace.

We will give you confidential advice and support if your mental health is affecting your employability, so you can nail down that job.

For those already working, we can also advise on issues like redundancy, discrimination, unfair dismissal and more.

We work together with HR departments and unions as much as you would like us to, acting as an advocate on your behalf.

To get help from our employment advisors, self-refer to NHS Talking Therapies.

Having a long-term condition can affect all areas of our life – not just our physical health.

If your illness is affecting your mood, or stress and anxiety are making your condition worse, the long-term conditions team will work alongside us to give you specific support.

We have experience working with a number of long-term conditions, including:

• Epilepsy
• Strokes
• Diabetes
• Fibromyalgia
• Cardiac disease
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Respiratory conditions such as COPD
• Long COVID

To receive support from the long-term conditions team, visit our NHS Talking Therapies self-referral page.

We offer therapy remotely by video call or telephone. This can be a really helpful way of accessing therapy.

This can allow you to have more flexibility with appointment bookings. Usually we are also able to offer remote therapy more quickly than face-to-face therapy. There are some exceptions to this, and some common mental health problems are not recommended to be treated by remote therapy. This can be discussed with you after your assessment.

Some people seeking help have doubts about remote therapy, and sometimes don't consider remote therapy as a helpful option for them. Research has shown that remote therapy can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy, while another study found that people benefitted from remote therapy faster than face-to-face therapy.

During the Covid pandemic, our team had to pivot to remote therapy and some of our clinicians also had doubts about delivering therapy remotely. However, we found that it was a really helpful approach and we actually had better outcomes from remote treatment than face-to-face therapy.

We hope that this information will address any doubts you may have and, where appropriate, help you consider remote therapy with us in future.

To access remote therapy, self-refer to NHS Talking Therapies on the main referral form.