Our educational courses offer some of our most accessible and successful treatments. They are available online and face-to-face in some areas.
Courses cover a range of topics such as anxiety and low mood, sleep problems, the menopause, and older adulthood. Whilst the courses can be interactive, they are not group therapy. There is no pressure on anyone to share information.
Our facilitators are all improving access to psychological therapies professionals, experienced in delivering talking therapy. If you are interested in attending a course, complete a self-referral form and tell the therapist at your assessment appointment which course you are interested in.
Takes place over 5 x 90-minute sessions.
This course looks at how stress, low mood and anxiety can impact on the way we think, feel, and behave.
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Takes place over 4 x 90-minute sessions.
Sleep Well aims to help you make changes that will aid positive sleep.
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Takes place over 4 x 2-hour sessions.
Focusing on low mood and anxiety for people aged over 65, we discuss:
Takes place over 4 x 90-minute sessions.
Providing a first step in mindfulness for anyone who is experiencing or has experienced depression, anxiety, stress, or long-term health conditions.
The course aims to:
Takes place over 9 x 2-hour 30-minute sessions.
The course style is experiential. It is about cultivating awareness of present-moment, body and mind experience.
It is about developing the 'being' mode of mind, and coming out of the 'doing' mode, which is often overworked and stuck in unhelpful patterns.
We learn to identify these patterns and begin to move from reactive (leading to more suffering) to responsive (leading to less suffering) ways of meeting life’s& challenges.
Practices include lying down, walking, gentle stretching and sitting meditations. These are always invitational and adaptable to the individual physical needs of patients.
Participants will not be asked to share the stories of their personal situations in the group. The focus will be kept to present moment awareness.
Takes place over 4 x 90-minute sessions.
This course explores how mindfulness might help with pain management.
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Takes place over 6 x 2-hour sessions.
Mums often find life with a baby or toddler challenging. New demands and responsibilities, together with broken sleep, can sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed, low in mood, irritable or anxious. This group offers support for mums with children up to the age of 2 who may be struggling with the transition into parenthood.
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Takes place over 5 x 90-minute sessions.
The transition through menopause can bring physiological and psychological changes that can lead to low mood, anxiety, or stress.
Uncomfortable physical symptoms, low energy and memory difficulties can be challenging. The course helps people learn more about the impact of the menopause transition, as well as strategies to adapt and live well, through and beyond the menopause
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Takes place over 6 x 2-hour sessions.
This course is for those who find that worry is stopping them from enjoying life.
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Takes place over 7 x 2-hour sessions.
This course is for those who are experiencing recurrent longer-term depression rather than reactive low mood to a life event.
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Takes place over 8 x 2 hours sessions held fortnightly.
The course provides an opportunity for clients who are diagnosed or self-identify as autistic and/or ADHD to learn more about their individual neurodivergent challenges.
Through the course you will learn some coping strategies and build a better sense of self-compassion.
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