Services

Croydon Talking Therapies is a free and confidential NHS talking therapies service. We offer a range of psychological therapies to adults 18 years and over, who are registered with a Croydon GP or live in the borough of Croydon. Our main offer of treatment is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or treatments based on these principles. We are currently also expanding into couple therapy for depression and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT).

Our aim is to help improve the mental well-being of people experiencing difficulties such as:

• Low mood
• Feeling down due to unemployment or difficulties at work
• Sleep problems
• Low self-esteem
• Panic attacks
• Sadness that won't go away
• Excessive worrying or anxiety
• Relationship or family problems related to how you feel
• Low mood or anxiety related to a medical condition such as diabetes, Irritable bowel Syndrome and Fatigue
• Experience of a traumatic event
• Stress
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Phobias

We are available at many GP surgeries and other clinics around Croydon.

For more information visit: croydontalkingtherapies.nhs.uk

The Lambeth Talking Therapies Service is provided by the Lambeth Primary Care Psychological Therapy Service. We provide advice and brief treatment, including self-help therapy for people, aged over 18, with depression or anxiety.

A particular focus of our service is caring for people who are unemployed, or who are at risk of losing their job.

We provide care for people who live in the London Borough of Lambeth or who are registered with a Lambeth GP.

To get an appointment you can call 0203 228 6747. If you have been referred by your GP (or by someone else) you need to call the service within 21 days of your referral. The call will take approximately 25 minutes so please call when you have time and are able to talk openly. We can call you back if necessary.

You can download a leaflet about our service here

For more information visit: lambethtalkingtherapies.nhs.uk

The Lewisham Talking Therapies Service is provided by the Lewisham Primary Care Psychological Therapy Service. We provide brief treatment, including self-help therapy for people, aged over 18, with depression or anxiety. Currently all treatments are offered remotely either video, digital or telephone consultations.

We also offer Employment Advice for people who are unemployed, or who are at risk of losing their job.

We provide care for people who are registered with a Lewisham GP.

For more information visit: lewishamtalkingtherapies.nhs.uk

At the Southwark Talking Therapies Service we help people, aged 18 and over, cope with depression and/or anxiety. We are based at the Maudsley Hospital. Our service is for people who live in the London Borough of Southwark and/or people registered with a Southwark GP.

We provide a range of therapies including one to one, group, and home-based online support programmes.

SPTS also provide advice on employment related issues for people coping with depression and/or anxiety.

We can be contacted directly, or your GP can contact us for you. Our service is provided in different locations, including GP surgeries, hospitals and local community centres.

For more information visit: talkingtherapiessouthwark.nhs.uk

Thames Ward is a medium secure, forensic acute admission ward in River House, at Bethlem Royal Hospital. Thames ward is where everyone is first admitted to at River House to determine what treatment and care they need within the unit.

As well as providing an in-house assessment and referral service, we provide inpatient care and treatment for men, aged 18-65, who have mental health problems and a history of offending behaviour, and who are acutely unwell or have challenging behaviour. Acute illnesses start quickly and have distressing symptoms.

We provide nurse-led group therapies and a designated, named worker, who co-ordinates the care of each person. Our health and social care professionals work with people, their families and carers, to develop care plans to help prevent relapses, and to help identify early warning signs, so that they know how to get help in a crisis.

To learn more about our forensic services, visit our National Forensic Services page.

Our unit is in Lambeth Hospital. We offer services for men, aged 18-65, who have been detained on Sections 3 or 37 under the Mental Health Act 1983. We care for people with treatment resistant psychosis, with or without mild personality disorders; drug and alcohol misuse; and challenging behaviour. Psychosis involves distorted perceptions of reality, thinking, feeling, hearing and seeing often with symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

We provide care for people in our local community and from all over the UK

We provide assessment and rehabilitation in hospital. Our service brings together different health and social care professionals, including nurses, occupational therapists and psychiatrists.

We help people to maintain their health and move on to live more independently in their community.
 

The Trauma and Dissociation Service (TDS) is a national specialist, outpatient assessment, consultation and treatment service for adults who are suffering psychological difficulties following trauma and/or dissociative disorders. We assess and treat survivors of a range of traumatic events (both adult and childhood) including domestic violence, childhood abuse, assault, torture, war, rape, major disasters and accidents.

We are the only NHS specialist service offering treatment for people presenting with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and severe dissociative disorders.

*The service will open to referrals on Monday 5 December 2022, after this date you will be able to make a referral by completing the form on our webpage. Please do not send any referrals before this date as they will not be processed.

The TREAT service is an outpatient service open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. We work alongside clinical teams, offering additional support with physical and mental health. We provide evidence based specialist treatments for patients with ongoing or difficult to treat symptoms, as well as clozapine titration.

We offer:

• Specialist assessment including detailed investigations
• Initiation and management of specialist and third-line treatments
• Physical assessment including blood tests and ECGs
• Investigation into other causes of non-response, such as comorbid substance misuse (including alcohol), the concurrent use of other prescribed medication or physical illness.
• Clozapine initiation to people with schizophrenia whose illness has not responded adequately to treatment despite the sequential use of adequate doses of at least 2 different antipsychotic drugs.
• Support to manage side-effects of medication

Please email TREAT@slam.nhs.uk to request a referral form.

The treatment service is a multi-professional community team that offers psychological and pharmacological therapy interventions, along side key working and dual diagnosis working, to people with complex non-psychotic presentations, primarily but not exclusively: recurrent affective disorders, anxiety, trauma, PTSD and OCD, and personality disorders.

The treatment service offers all of elements of the Assessment & Liaison service combined with targeted therapeutic interventions either provided within the team or by co-working with IPTT.

The service retains the ability to carry out Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act assessments, carers assessment and fulfill the safeguarding responsibilities as well as liaising with local authority personalisation services.

The service has clinical specialists providing therapy and key working and clinical supervision and training to case managers in the community. The service is able to key-work approximately 300 people.

Croydon Treatment Teams East & West provided care and support for people, aged 18-65, who have a range of mood and affective disorders and Personality Disorders. We care for and support people who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

People eligible for our service must be on the Care Programme Approach (CPA). The CPA is a way of describing what you need in order to get the best care. It is for patients who need to see several people or organisations for their mental health care and treatment.

We can provide people with a care co-ordinator to plan their care and support them to access the best available help. They are usually a community psychiatric nurse, social worker or occupational therapist. This will be time bounded.

Our service provides access to a range of talking therapies. We work closely alongside Touchstone, Croydon's Personality Disorder Service.

Our service brings together teams of health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.

Croydon Treatment Teams East & West provided care and support for people, aged 18-65, who have a range of mood and affective disorders and Personality Disorders. We care for and support people who live in the London Borough of Croydon.

People eligible for our service must be on the Care Programme Approach (CPA). The CPA is a way of describing what you need in order to get the best care. It is for patients who need to see several people or organisations for their mental health care and treatment.

We can provide people with a care co-ordinator to plan their care and support them to access the best available help. They are usually a community psychiatric nurse, social worker or occupational therapist. This will be time bounded.

Our service provides access to a range of talking therapies. We work closely alongside Touchstone, Croydon's Personality Disorder Service.

Our service brings together teams of health and social care professionals, including nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.