NHS Northumberland Talking Therapies

This usually involves 5 sessions with a PWP, usually lasting around 30 minutes per session. Sessions tend to take place weekly or fortnightly and can be delivered face to face or on the telephone.

The sessions will involve identifying goals, understanding your difficulties, agreeing treatment plans and monitoring your progress. The focus will be on guiding you through the self-help materials and helping you to develop strategies to become the best manager of your mental health.

Each session you and your practitioner will agree some tasks to complete in your own time at home. These tasks will be aimed at helping you reach your treatment goals. The more time you spend on these between session tasks, the more likely you are to benefit from treatment.

Support Classes and Workshops

We offer the following classes and workshops:

• Improving Wellbeing Class
• Low Self-Esteem Class
• Long Term Health Conditions Workshop
• Behavioural Activation Course
• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Class

The classes and groups can run between four to 10 weeks. These classes can for be 1 hour, 90 minutes or two hours long, depending on the class.

Our classes are run on a rolling programme. They provide participants with an in-depth understanding of their symptoms and methods to combat them.

 

Computerised CBT

This is an online programme called SilverCloud that you can access as often as you like, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The programme is interactive and informative and will provide you with a space to reflect and learn techniques that can help to improve the way you are feeling. It is helpful for stress, depression and anxiety.

The content is of Computerised CBT is identical to what a therapist would work through with you.  You are supported online by a therapist who will monitor your progress and help you through the modules.

Step Three Counselling

Step Three Counselling is a high intensity intervention offered between 6 to 8 sessions. Counsellors will build a supportive, non-judgmental and in-depth relationship with you based on empathy and honesty.

Sessions are offered face to face, by telephone or via a secure online platform.

Together with your counsellor, you will establish and work towards a therapeutic aim. Through exploration of your experiences and emotions, your counsellor will support you to:

• Access and express underlying feelings and make sense of them
• Find new meanings to make positive changes in your life.
• Reduce your negative thoughts and feelings
• Feel better about yourself and your life
• Find ways to achieve a greater degree of choice and purpose in the world
• Develop emotional awareness
• Gain greater understanding of yourself, your relationships, and your responses to others
• Find different ways to manage your feelings
• Explore childhood experiences and feelings and how they related to present day situations

 

Counselling at step three is suitable for:

• People who can explain what is bothering them
• People who may have tried other support first
• People whose problems have continued for a longer time
• People who can be reflective between counselling sessions
• People who want to explore feelings and emotions

Step three counselling can be helpful for individuals experiencing mild and moderate feelings of:

• Depression or low mood
• Relationship issues
• Bereavement, Grief and Loss
• Complicated or long-lasting feelings of grief
• Work problems
• Adjusting to significant Life events and Changes
• Self-esteem issues
• Loss of confidence
• Anger
• Issues around maintaining attachments and relationships

Person Centred Experiential - Counselling or Depression

Person Centre-Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD) is a high intensity intervention that can be offered up from 6- 8 sessions or up to 20 sessions, depending on the service.

Sessions are offered face to face, by telephone or via a secure online platform.

Sunderland Counselling Service are a leading local provider of PCE-CfD Counselling and Supervision.

Counsellors will build a supportive, non-judgmental and in-depth relationship with you based on empathy and honesty.

Together with your counsellor, you will establish and work towards a therapeutic aim. Through exploration of your experiences and emotions, your counsellor will support you to:

• Access and express underlying feelings and make sense of them
• Find new meanings to make positive changes in your life.
• Reduce your negative thoughts and feelings
• Feel better about yourself and your life
• Find ways to achieve a greater degree of choice and purpose in the world
• Develop emotional awareness
• Gain greater understanding of yourself, your relationships and your responses to others
• Find different ways to manage your feelings
• Explore childhood experiences and feelings and how they related to present day situations

PCE-CfD is suitable for:

• People who can explain what is bothering them
• People who may have tried other support first
• People whose problems have continued for a longer time
• People who can be reflective between counselling sessions
• People who want to explore feelings and emotions

PCE-CfD can be helpful for individuals experiencing mild and moderate feelings of:

• Depression or low mood
• Relationship issues
• Bereavement, Grief and Loss
• Complicated or long-lasting feelings of grief
• Work problems
• Adjusting to significant Life events and Changes
• Self-esteem issues
• Loss of confidence
• Anger
• Issues around maintaining attachments and relationships