Plans to "transform" attitudes to mental health, with a focus on children and young people, have been announced by Theresa May. Additional training for teachers, an extra £15 million for community care, and improved support in the workplace were among measures announced by the PM.
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Bipolar disorder, sometimes known as manic depression, is a complex illness affecting between 1% and 5% of the population. People with the condition have problems with their moods, experiencing periods, or ‘episodes’, of extreme highs (mania), and usually periods of depression.
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CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is evidence based and offer a wide range of tools to manage your behaviour, thoughts and feelings. These are all on extra alert during Christmas - one of the busiest fun-filled times of the year – a most wonderful time of the year!
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While Christmas can affect anyone’s mental health, it certainly has the potential to exacerbate the symptoms of those with existing conditions. You could be a parent trying to manage expectations while also coping with limited finances; you might be someone who feels isolated at Christmas.
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GPs are unable to access confidential care locally. We have treated 405 GPs with mental health problems over the last year; with CBT 85% are making a full recovery. The GPs were all suffering from common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression. Read more out the results here.
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In this guide, you'll find advice on how to manage your anger. You'll find relevant information about anger and what you can do in this article. The advice can help you improve your life.
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One of the mental health issues I often treat as a CBT Therapist in London is ‘Low Self-Esteem’. When you have a negative picture of yourself it can often lead to a feeling of low self-esteem – you don’t feel that you are good enough. This feeling is more problematic in a romantic relationship.
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“I’m so depressed” has become a familiar expression when we’re feeling a bit down in the dumps, stressed or anxious. CBT is the recommended therapy for depression according to NICE. AS a CBT Therapist in London and the UK I treat many people for depression, and I hope this post can help anyone…
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Lucy Wallis writes for the BBC about Catherine Benfield's journey out of OCD. She recovered with CBT, but also helped by creating Olive the personification of her OCD. In the CBT treatment of OCD we often encourage clients to externalise their OCD experience, for these very reasons...
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Being in a relationship does not necessarily, in itself, protect people from having suicidal thoughts. This is the finding of a recent study into the correlation between relationship status and suicidal thoughts conducted by scientists from MedUni Vienna’s Institute of Social Medicine and the…
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As a CBT Therapist in London ‘sleeplessness’ is part of the majority of therapy talks I have with my clients. This is not because I see a lot of clients with sleep disorder but because feeling rested is essential to our overall well-being and because not being able to get a decent sleep can reveal…
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We have expert CBT therapists that are effective in treating PTSD. CBT and EMDR are the treatment of choice for PTSD and complex PTSD. We have outstanding results for PTSD: measured on anxiety, depression, and Impact of Events Scale(r). You can benchmark our data across other CBT and EMDR services.
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CBT and the Perfect Relations When you are a CBT Therapist, you talk to a lot of different people looking for CBT Therapy. Among my clients are also a good deal of couples, and I hope that this can be helpful to many of them as a ‘food for thought’ either before they see a CBT Therapist or perhaps…
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When I first decided to try CBT – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the depression and anxiety were both severe, and I constantly felt stressed and incapable of doing my job as a writer. There was often a sense of dread, and for two months I'd struggled to leave the house alone.
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Now that Xmas is over, and people are struggling with New Year diets and other depriving resolutions, you may not feel at your jolliest, but CBT can help you. Your next break is likely at Easter with the nights still drawing in very early and the wintry weather, January can seem a bit of a struggle.
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I had an interesting experience with a client recently who came to see me for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in London. I knew we had to address ‘relationship’ and how CBT could help, but it was not CBT for Couples we needed to talk about. The issue this client had was her relationship with her…
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The brains of men and women react very differently to depression – and this may mean that each sex should receive different drug treatments, research suggests.
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Depression is now the leading cause of ill health and disability in the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), following a huge spike in the number of people who report living with the condition. The condition has overtaken lower respiratory disease as the biggest global health…
Read MoreYou feel like a better version of yourself when you’re in a healthy, mature relationship. That doesn’t mean your partner completes you, but they do complement your life in just the right way.
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PHP and Efficacy are delighted to launch their services for the new NHS England-wide General Practitioner Health (GPH) service. Efficacy and PHP have worked together for 6 years in Greater London. GPs were unable to access confidential care locally and GPH bridges a gap.
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The General Practitioner Health Service (NHS GP Health) and Efficacy are delighted to launch their joint service for the new national England-wide NHS GPH.
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Depression and anxiety are both mental health conditions, however, the causes, signs and symptoms can occur in different ways. Depression is more than just feeling unhappy for a couple of days. However the illness affects people in different ways and can cause a wide variety of symptoms - from mild…
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After years of living with anxiety, panic disorder and horribly anxious feelings surrounding my social anxieties, I was running on empty about the tools to cope with anything. I knew I desperately needed help, so I decided to take action.
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BILLED as the “most depressing day of the year” Blue Monday has struck bringing with it a dark cloud of doom. The party season is over and the endless late nights and booze-fuelled bashes have taken their toll and, apparently, today is the day that it all comes to a head.
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