Talking therapies

Therapy with us involves talking to a trained professional about your thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

We offer a wide range of therapies recommended by the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE), including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Counselling.

Therapy can be provided one-to-one, in a group, over the phone, via video call or online. Depending on the type of therapy offered, we will see you for 6–12 sessions and each session runs for 30 or 60 minutes. Sessions are scheduled at the same time each week.

We can see you in local health clinics across Portsmouth. All of our clinics are wheelchair friendly. If needed, we can provide an interpreter and easy read information.

Benefits of therapy

Sometimes it's easier to talk to one of us than to relatives or friends. We aim to:

• give you a safe time and place to talk to us, without judging you

• help you make sense of things and understand yourself better

• help you resolve complicated feelings, or find ways to live with them

• help you recognise unhelpful patterns in the way you think or act, and find ways to change them (if you want to).

A significant number of published research trials have evaluated the therapies we offer.

These therapies have shown to be helpful for common mental health difficulties, in addition to physical conditions such as chronic pain or fatigue.

We see the many different ways therapy can help. People often finish with a more positive outlook, they’ve overcome their fears, their relationships improve, and they feel hopeful about their future.

You may like to read some feedback and encouragements by those who received therapy with us.

Courses and workshops

We often use courses and workshops as our first line in offering support. These can be individual online and with other attendees. People can feel nervous about attending them but they have some fantastic benefits and members are supported by the course facilitators at every step. We offer a wide range of courses and workshops, which include:

• Balancing Your Thoughts

• Mood Management

• Stress management

• Overcoming worry

• Panic and Phobias

• Health anxiety

• Post Natal support

• Long Term Conditions

To find out more details about our courses and workshops, please click here.

Types of therapy

We offer many different types of talking therapy. For certain difficulties, one type of therapy may be better than another. Some talking therapies also suit different people.

Even those of us who offer the same kind of therapy will have a slightly different way of working from each other because all therapists have a personal style as well. We may suggest a combination of approaches if that could help you best.

Whichever therapy you begin, we’ll work together towards your goals and regularly check that we’re on the right track.

Read more about the different types of therapy we offer:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Counselling

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy

Compassion-focused Therapy

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing

Narrative Exposure Therapy

Interpersonal Therapy

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia

Couples Therapy

Difficulties we treat

If you’re going through a hard time, we want you to know that you’re not alone and good support is now available. We provide talking therapies for all kinds of common mental health difficulties.

Employment advice

Alongside therapy our Employment Team can help you find employment or training, and support you with workplace adjustments or disputes.

Pathways to holistic support

We partner with local organisations, and with services across health and social care. Our partnerships bring together a range of experience and expertise, to help improve accessibility, and to provide you with the care and support you need. Read more about our partnerships and how you could benefit.

Self-help resources

Be sure to check out our useful section of self-help resources for wellbeing.