Specialist psychological services

Psychological assessments and personalised treatment programmes to help your employees manage mental health difficulties that are impacting their day-to-day function at work and home.

Accreditations

Fast access to quality care

Enjoy quick access to gold-standard psychological treatment with no waiting list.

Neurodiverse support

Tailored support for neurodiverse employees whose work is being impacted by mental health challenges.

Facilitated return to work

Assists employees in returning to work with clinically informed adjustments to help prevent relapse.

What is our specialist psychological service?

We provide psychological assessments and treatment programmes for employees impacted by mental health difficulties, often leading to long-term or recurring absences.

Our network HCPC-registered psychologists and BACP-accredited CBT therapists provide support for conditions such as:

Chronic depression
Anxiety
OCD
Panic disorder
Trauma and PTSD
ADHD/ASD diagnosis
Complex grief and work-related stress/absenteeism

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Referral via EAP Helpline

If your employee is facing mental health challenges that are affecting their personal life and work—such as increased absences, reduced hours, or difficulties in relationships—they can reach out to the EAP support line. If brief counselling isn’t enough to meet their needs, we’re here to provide the specialist psychological support they may require.

Referral via HR due to manager concerns

If a manager notices changes in a team member’s mental health, performance, or attendance, they can turn to HR for guidance. HR will assess the situation and, if significant mental health concerns are identified, they can connect the employee with our specialist psychological services to ensure they receive the support they need.

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Employee self-referral via HR

If an employee is struggling with long-term or complex mental health issues and finds it challenging to maintain their role, they can approach HR or Occupational Health for help. HR can reach out to our specialist psychological services to see if we can provide the necessary support to help the employee thrive.

Employee self-referral for neurodiverse condition

An employee may feel that they have a neurodiverse condition, such as ADHD or Autism, that is impacting their work. They can talk to their employer, HR, or Occupational Health, or their manager can contact our specialist psychological services. We’re here to help with diagnosis and support, aiming to reduce the impact of their condition on their role.

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What our service users say

The whole experience has been so supportive and helpful, not just the therapy but all the kindness that my case manager showed me throughout all of this. It was beyond my expectations.

This has changed my life.

I never expected I’d recover after all these years but the changes I have experienced are huge, my therapist is amazing at what she does.

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

CBT is a type of talking therapy. It provides a clear formulation of the difficulties and teaches clients how to identify and understand how their unique thoughts, behaviours, and emotions interlink and reinforce each other. Clients learn how to break their unhelpful cycles, understanding the origins are often in core beliefs formed early in life.

It often uses tailored diagrams, ‘maps’, and worksheets and requires active participation from the client. A comprehensive CBT package can equip clients with skills they can use for life. It can be applied to almost any issue, condition, or situation.

What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?

Trauma memories are held in the brain unprocessed/fragmented. The bilateral brain stimulation that occurs through EMDR (client using their eyes to track the hand movements of the clinician) mimics the REM phase of sleep.

When trauma memories are processed using this method they are then stored in the brain in the usual way, without the distressing symptoms that characterise PTSD. Hand tapping or auditory stimulation may be used instead of eye tracking.

What is the difference between a counsellor using CBT skills and a psychologist offering a comprehensive CBT package?

Our HCPC registered Psychologists have 6 years of training (to Doctoral level) in psychology and talking therapies (CBT and core therapies).

Our BABCP (British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies) accredited clinicians have 2-year post-grad intensive CBT training. This accreditation demonstrates that they have reached a level of expertise in CBT where they can work with complex cases using CBT.

This level of knowledge and experience enables our clinicians to work intensively with clients with complex/long-term issues to a deep bespoke level, ‘mapping out’ tailored formulations and treatment plans on how clients can free themselves from their unique difficulties, providing sustainable change from long-term issues.

Counsellors offering CBT skills who are not BABCP accredited, will not have undergone the same level of training in CBT. Therefore, they would apply CBT skills to less complex cases (see Stepped Care Pyramid - overleaf). NICE Guidelines and CBT competency frameworks recommend that when using CBT, the level of CBT expertise therapists possess should increase according to mental health complexity of the clients they treat.

Therefore, when working at the level of mental health need that Psychological Services work at it is clinically appropriate for Psychologists and BABCP therapists to be delivering our therapies.

What is the benefit to the business of investing in Psychological Services?

Can’t my employee get this on the NHS?