Stockport Secondary Care Psychological Therapies

This service is available to support psychological interventions in the Secondary Care Mental Health Service offering direct psychological therapy and interventions to clients mostly seen at our base and indirect psychological support to staff via supervision, training and consultation.

Inpatients on the psychiatric wards can be offered a formulation /consultation as appropriate or a neuropsychological assessment.

Our referrals come from Care Coordinators/Consultant Psychiatrists in the Community Mental Health Teams for service users that meet eligibility criteria for secondary care mental health services.

Individual therapies available include:

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Cognitive Analytic Therapy
  • Art Psychotherapy
  • Integrative Therapies
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Group interventions include Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and a Bipolar Relapse Prevention Group.

Secondary care service users can be referred for a screening for a range of cognitive difficulties excluding dementia; this may lead to offering a full neuropsychological assessment.

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Contact information

Secondary Care Psychological Therapies
Oasis Building,
Stepping Hill Hospital, Poplar Grove,
Stockport,
SK2 7JE

Tel: 0161 716 5766

Fax: 0161 716 5711

Parking Available: Yes

Opening hours

9am-5pm some flexibility is available around later appointments.

9am-5pm Telephone contact, no answer machine available outside these hours.

Referral methods

  • Health professional
  • Social care professional
  • The above have to be either a CMHT Care Co-ordinator or a Consultant Psychiatrist