NHS Oldham Talking Therapies is for people over the age of 16 years, who are registered with a GP in Oldham.
We offer support and treatment if you're experiencing low mood, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, grief, and sleep difficulties.
We can help you deal with the effects of a long-term health condition, chronic pain, or post natal depression, We also offer couples therapy if you are struggling in your relationships, and psychosexual therapy for any intimacy difficulties.
Read more about what we can offer below, or watch our short introduction video.
Everyone who wishes to access the service will be invited to seminars to introduce the service and explain what we can offer, as well as learning strategies and techniques to use while waiting for treatment.
Therapies to support your mental health and wellbeing
- Guided self-help
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
- Counselling
- Psychosexual therapy
- Couples counselling
Courses and seminars
- Healthier minds, healthier you (for low mood, anxiety and stress)
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Emotional skills
- Recovering from childhood trauma
- Dad drop in sessions
- Long term conditions group
Click here to read more about our courses. You can request a place using our referral form.
Online self-help (SilverCloud)
We offer a mental health self-help program called SilverCloud, where you can instantly access materials shown to have a positive impact on depression, anxiety and stress. Find out more about SilverCloud.
Employment support
Our employment advisors provide personalised employment support. Whether you're looking for a new job, staying in your current role, or want to overcome barriers that may be holding you back, we’re here to guide you towards achieving your goals. They can also offer support around debt, housing, welfare benefits, caring responsibilities, social isolation and more. Click here for information about our employment support.
- Refer yourself here: we'll get in touch shortly after we receive your form.
- Refer yourself to our online self-help programme (SilverCloud)
- If you have serious concerns about your safety or the safety of others, visit our help page
The service is for people with mild to moderate common mental health problems (e.g. depression and anxiety), with a strong focus on self-help. To help ensure referrals to our services are appropriate, please carefully consider whether it'll meet the patient's needs.
If you feel a professional referral is appropriate, please contact us for a copy of the professional referral form.
Our talking therapy services have supported many people over the years.
It’s important to attend your appointments, and attend on time.
Therapy is only helpful if you attend and attend regularly. You will have a limited number of appointments so using the time offered in full will help you benefit from therapy.
Missing, cancelling or repeatedly turning up late for appointments indicates that now might not be the right time for therapy.
If you miss your first appointment, or miss or cancel more than two appointments during therapy (giving less than 48hours notice), or repeated turn up late, you would be discharged from our service.
Other things about your appointment:
- Please don’t take any alcohol or drugs before or during your appointment.
- Complete tasks and work between appointments. Most of the work in therapy happens between appointments, so being prepared to commit to this is important.
- Complete the questionnaires for every appointment. This helps us understand how you are feeling and symptoms you may need more help with.