WellMinds Psychological Therapy Service

Our person-centred Initial Assessment usually takes up to 60 minutes. This can be delivered remotely via video link or face to face at the clinic. We will work with you on a one-one basis to understand the main difficulties that you have been experiencing and the triggers that have led to this. We may use specific questionnaires as part of the assessment process to support our understanding of the key difficulties that you are experiencing. Through assessment, we can determine what support may be best moving forwards, whether this is within our service or signposting to a different service that may better support your needs. To book your Initial Assessment please contact us.

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) helps people to learn about the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and how we can get stuck in negative cycles which causes lots of distress on our day to day lives. By learning what keeps us stuck, we can make small practical changes to get ‘unstuck’. It is the current evidence-based treatment for treating a range of mental health problems in the NHS and is recommended by National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is a type of therapy that helps you to process traumatic memories and their associated symptoms. These memories can make you feel stuck in negative past experiences and prevent you living in the here and now. We use bilateral stimulation and your brain’s natural ability to heal and process events to help you work through difficult memories and manage your emotions around them.

We are both qualified Clinical Supervisors in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy and offer private clinical supervision to professionals working in private practice. Please contact us for more information or to make an inquiry.

Don’t worry, we will take time to do a thorough assessment and explore options with you. You just need to be open and honest about your difficulties and let us do the rest. If we think you need a therapy that we can’t offer, we will support you in the right direction to get the help you need.

No. You are not required to have any kind of mental health diagnosis to access therapy with us.

Sessions are typically weekly and can vary between 60-90 minutes. 90-minute sessions take place for trauma processing, and we will discuss this with you if it is required. The initial sessions will include lots of questions from us so we can understand how best to help you with your difficulties. We will then take time to ensure you understand what’s involved so that it feels right for you. After this we will use each session to help you understand more about your difficulties and learn ways to manage them. People get the best out of therapy when they work on themselves in between sessions; we will work with you to come up with ideas of things to practise to consolidate your learning and help yourself to feel better.

Typically, CBT sessions are 60 minutes long. There may be instances where a specialist CBT intervention is recommended and therefore this may require a longer session time (90 minutes) – this would be discussed with you if required. With EMDR we would typically use 60-minute sessions in the preparation phases only (approx. 2-3 sessions) and thereafter 90-minute sessions for the trauma processing elements of therapy.

Regular attendance is important, like gym classes and physio, you get out what you put in. People also get the best out of therapy when they work on themselves in between sessions, we will work with you to come up with ideas to practice to consolidate your learning and help yourself to feel better.

Not necessarily. We offer both face-to-face therapy at the clinic and remote therapy via video link.

- Initial Assessment – £95 per hour

- CBT/EMDR - £95 per hour session

- CBT/EMDR £140 per 90-minute session (if required for trauma processing/other specialist interventions)

- Clinical Supervision for professionals – please contact us for more information

- Workshops – Coming Soon...

If you do not attend a planned session or cancel the session within 24 hours prior, you will still be required to pay 50% of the session fee. If you give us more than 24 hours’ notice, then you will not be charged. Due to our waiting list, we may have to discharge you if you fail to attend or cancel 3 appointments, this allows us to give everyone a fair chance at accessing therapy.

This is a difficult question to answer because everyone is different. However, we are trained to deliver CBT in up to 16-20 sessions. That does not mean you will need to have all those sessions, some people need far less, we will conduct therapy reviews every 4-6 sessions to make sure you are on the right track.

Therapy sessions are confidential between you, the practitioner, and their Clinical Supervisor. The exceptions to this are when you pose a risk to yourself, someone else or a child, if this occurs then we have a duty of care to breach confidentiality to inform relevant organisations to ensure the safety of those effected. We will also breach confidentiality if you indicate you are engaging in illegal activities.