NHS Stockport Talking Therapies is for people over the age of 16 years, who are registered with a GP in Stockport. We can help you to improve your emotional wellbeing in a safe, compassionate space, if you’re experiencing problems such as:
- Low mood or depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Stress
- Panic attacks
- Sleep problems
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Help to manage the emotional impact of a long-term physical health problem, or chronic pain.
If our service is right for your needs, we will offer you an assessment to see how our team can help. Following your assessment, you may be offered our workshops, groups or online cognitive behavioural therapy. If these aren’t suitable, we can also discuss one-to-one treatment options
Therapies to support your mental health and wellbeing
- Guided self-help
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Counselling
- Couples counselling for depression
- Psychosexual therapy
Groups and workshops
- Improving your mood workshop
- Reducing and managing anxiety
- Living well with pain and long term health conditions
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
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. Find out more about our employment support.
- Refer yourself to our service: If our service is right for your needs, we will offer you an assessment to see how our team of therapists and counsellors can help you to manage your feelings and symptoms. We work in partnership with Big Life Group (previously Self Help Services) and Pure Innovations to minimise waiting times, and sometimes we may offer you the option of having your initial assessment with these services. You may decline this option by stating this in your self-referral. If you are unable to complete the referral form yourself you can ask your GP or health professional to refer on your behalf (please refer to advice below).
- 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 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.
We recognise that from time to time you may have difficulty in attending your appointments or need to rearrange.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you can’t attend by contacting our office number on 0161 716 5640 and leaving a message for your therapist.
We need at least 24 hours’ notice to rearrange your appointment, so we can offer the slot to someone else waiting for support.
If you miss more than two appointments or if you miss your first appointment without letting us know, we will unfortunately have to discharge you back to the care of your GP.
Any appointments which aren’t rearranged with 24 hours’ notice will still count towards the total number of sessions agreed with your therapist.
We’re sorry for any inconvenience, please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help make your appointments more accessible.
We offer a confidential and non-judgemental service. Your worker, and their supervisor/manager will usually be the only people authorised to access your information and they will do so to ensure we are providing an effective service.
We will always keep your GP up to date on your care with us and we will routinely send copies of your assessment and discharge reports to your GP, or let them know if we have any concerns during your treatment.
Sometimes we may need to share specific information to other people who are involved in your care (such as if you have an assigned social worker or health visitor). If this is the case your worker will normally discuss this with you first and we always aim to gain your consent.
There are some instances where we will always disclose information, with or without your consent. These instances include when:
- We believe that you may be at risk of harming yourself
- There is a serious risk to the health and safety of others (e.g. children and vulnerable adults)
- You disclose any past unreported crime (for example childhood sexual abuse)
- Information is required to be used in court
- We need to give information to the police to help detect or prevent a serious crime
- We believe there is a threat to your safety
Where possible we will always inform you when we need to share information for the reasons given above.
Confidentiality will be maintained according to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policy. Visit our data protection and confidentiality page for more info on privacy and data protection policies.