- Overview
- Available Locations
- Contact us
- IAPT Silver Cloud
- Talking therapies
- Peer Support
- Useful resources and links
- Hear from our service users
Type
Changing Minds IAPT ServiceEvery month IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) help over 1,000 people in Northamptonshire who are feeling isolated, stressed, low in mood or anxious, we will work with you to put a plan in place.
This may include being offered talking therapies, a group, computerised cognitive behavioural therapy, online wellbeing groups, telephone or face to face support. Therapeutic work takes place in GP surgeries and other suitable facilities throughout the county, and offer workshops and webinars out of hours or during the weekend.
Who is this service for? Anyone aged 17 and half and over registered with a GP in Northamptonshire.
How to access this service: Access the service by calling 0300 999 1616 (9 to 5 weekdays) or by filling in the online form below called 'Click here to register for IAPT'.
If you require mental health support out of hours please call The Mental Health Number on 0800 448 0828 -lines available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Available Locations
Contact us
Telephone: 0300 999 1616
If you are a patient of the IAPT service in the North of the county and the lines are busy and you are unable to get through, please call our IAPT North team on: 01536 444876 and 01536 444854.
To register for the service please complete an online form here.
IAPT Silver Cloud
Silver Cloud
Silver Cloud is an online programme that you can access in your own time once you have been referred by a member of the IAPT team. A worker will regularly access your work and offer you online support. It can help you learn new skills and give you information on your problem.
Please note: if you are seeing a mental health professional from any of the following services please contact the team directly:
- PCART
- UCAT - PCLW or Crisis Team
- Acute Liaison Mental Health Service
- Nstep
- CAMHS
Each of the services above are linked to their dedicated page. Please contact the relevant team.
If you are not currently seeing one of these services and would like to register for IAPT, please continue to SIlvercloud via the link above or complete the registration form below for a member of our team to contact you.
Talking therapies
What are talking therapies?
Talking therapy aims to help you gain a better understanding of the issues that are troubling you.
It can help you find new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. This can help you improve how you cope with situations that you find difficult everyday life.
Your therapist with work with you to understand your difficulties and agree which type of therapy is best for you.
All our therapies are National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline approved and evidence based for specific anxiety disorders or depression.
Changing Minds IAPT service currently offer the following talking therapies:
Guided Self Help
What is Guided Self-Help?
It is a short term therapy, 4-6 sessions, based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which aims to support people with mild to moderate common mental health difficulties, such as low mood, anxiety, panic and stress. This evidence based and NICE recommended CBT type of approach is tailored to your individual needs and focuses on the ‘here and now’ problems and difficulties.
GSH is delivered by Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) who will offer 1-2-1 sessions over a short time period. They are trained to work with common mental health problems and offer support. They have a range of skills and experiences of working with people in different settings and from all ages and walks of life.
Who is it for?
Changing minds offer GSH for mild to moderate depression of anxiety disorder/problems
GSH is for anyone who wants advice and support to help them help themselves to better manage their low mood or fears/anxieties
How might it help me?
Your PWP will offer feedback and support you in learning how to make positive changes using a toolkit of very practical exercises and interventions that will help you to recognise how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes can affect your feelings and behaviour.
You will be supported to learn practical tools and skills will help you to deal with your difficulties and manage things better.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
What is it?
It is Nice (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) guideline-recommended therapy for depression and anxiety disorders/problems. This means there is research that proves it can be effective in helping people with these difficulties.
CBT is a talking therapy which helps you to understand the interaction between your thoughts/images (cognitions), what you do (behaviours), your emotions (moods) and physical feelings. It can help you to understand what caused and maintains your difficulties. CBT can help you to work towards changing unhelpful thoughts or behaviours and to better manage your moods and physical reactions, both now and in the future
Who is it for?
Changing minds offer CBT for mild to moderate depression of anxiety disorder/problems
CBT is for anyone who wants to better understand their difficulties and who is ready and prepared to make positive changes in their thinking style or behaviours
How might it help me?
You would work alongside your therapist in regular meetings (usually weekly) to gain a shared understanding of your current problems. Together with your therapist, you would agree a plan to tackle these. This plan will involve working towards change in your therapy sessions and through tasks you have agreed to do in between your therapy meetings. Towards the end of sessions, if needed, you would agree a plan to continue with progress on your own after therapy ends
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
What is it?
It is Nice (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) guideline-recommended treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This means there is research that proves it can be effective in helping people who have PTSD.
A central part of EMDR is the “desensitisation” phase when you would be helped to recall traumatic events in a safe environment whilst following rapid eye movements, tapping or auditory tones ( a process known as “bi-lateral stimulation”): this helps stimulate the mind and body’s normal, healthy way of processing memories
Who is it for?
Changing Minds IAPT service offers EMDR to people who have experienced a single trauma or possibly more than one trauma. We work with people who have good coping skills in everyday life and who currently have a stable living environment
How might it help me?
EMDR can help you to increase “adaptive information processing” of past memories, improve responses to any current triggers in your everyday life and to plan how you might manage any future triggers or challenging situations
Counselling for Depression (CfD)
What is Counselling for Depression?
A particular type of counselling that has been developed to help people suffering from depression.
There may be some variation in the number of sessions of counselling you are offered according to the way your local service is run. People with mild to moderate depression receive about 6–10 sessions over 8–12 weeks but in more complex cases up to 20 sessions of counselling may be offered. In most NHS services it is likely that you will be seen once a week for about 50-60 minutes
Who is it for?
Counselling for depression is for people who have low mood.
For example: Being critical of ourselves, feeling we are worthless and being left with unresolved feelings from difficult relationships can make us feel low and depressed.
How might it help me?
Counselling aims to help you get in touch with the feelings underlying your depression, to express these, make sense of them and develop new ways of looking at yourself and the world around you. This is achieved by counsellors focusing on how you feel and understanding your situation from your point of view.
Inter-Personal Therapy (IPT)
What is it?
IPT is a talking treatment for depression. The focus of therapy is on the current depression where social functioning is affected.
IPT is a structured and focused therapy across 16 sessions aiming to reduce symptoms of depression that can impact on social functioning.
Who is it for?
IPT is for moderate and severe depression where depression will be the main area of difficulty. IPT supports people who are motivated to work on their depression cycles and seek to understand the interpersonal issues of depression and want to improve their social functioning.
IPT requires the main area of depression is linked to the following needs:
Role changes such as lifestyle, work, relationships such as divorce, illness
Grief related depression where the loss is within the last 5 years
Sensitivity in relationships that impacts on depression and isolation
How might it help me?
IPT offers a focused and active approach in treatment of an agreed focal area of depression. IPT will help you to monitor your symptoms of depression and agree specific goals to guide your recovery. IPT can help you to develop skills to aid the resolution of problems affecting your current depression cycles.
Peer Support
Peer Supporters are people who have experienced recovery from mental health distress. They are in a good position to understand what you are going through.
Feeling Low, Stressed or Anxious?
Peer Supporters specialise in helping people who are experiencing some of the above. We offer people the opportunity to talk about how they are feeling and practical and emotional support to help them plan their recovery. We offer short term support (3 to 6 hour long sessions) to people aged 17+ throughout Northamptonshire.
Useful resources and links
Useful resources
Changing Minds IAPT leaflet - accessing the service (over 65)
IAPT - are day to day struggles getting you down?
IAPT - are you not sleeping? feeling stressed?
IAPT - exam stress getting you down?
Changing Minds IAPT- leaflet- POLISH[pdf] 577KB
Useful links
Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
NHS choices
First for Wellbeing
Mind
Advice and Practical Services
Citizens Advice Bureau
Community Law Service
Northamptonshire Food banks
Shelter
Counselling and Support Services
Northamptonshire Carers
Cruse
The Manna House Counselling services
The Doddridge Centre
The Lowdown for people ages 12-25
Northamptonshire Domestic Abuse Service (NDAS)
Northamptonshire Rape and Incest Crisis Centre (NRICC)
Eve – Domestic Violence & Abuse Help Northamptonshire
Substance 2 Solution (S2S)
Samaritans
Voice for Victims and Witnesses of Crime in Northamptonshire
Hear from our service users
We value feedback from service users that we have worked with through the Changing Minds IAPT service. Here is what some of our service users have said about their experiences through our iWantGreatCare feedback:
I've had 6 calls and felt very comfortable talking about what's happening in my life. The support and encouragement was fantastic and was supported by lots of resources to help me along the way."
"Before I had therapy I had large amounts of anxiety and irrational thoughts, worries and not living a life without fear. Now I am more confident I have been shown how to cope better. I feel excited about feeling less anxious I feel I am now in control and I am more able to problem solve. I thought a phone session therapy would not be effective but to my surprise it has been so much easier and found it to be one of the best therapy sessions I have encountered. I have so much to thank for this service it's lifted a heavy weight off me."
"When I called you I was in a very bad way mentally. The wonderful team has assisted me in changing my way in thinking. I am now able to get back into doing my hobbies, I feel with the tools they have given me will help me cope with my mental health issues. I am now able to work out what emotions are worth my energies and what are not. I want to say a very big thank you for the help I have been given."
To provide your feedback on your experience with the IAPT Changing Minds service click here to complete an iWantGreatCare form.
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IAPT is a service for people with mild to moderate depression and/or an anxiety disorder.
If you are seeing a mental health professional from any of the following services please contact the team directly:
- PCART
- UCAT - PCLW or Crisis Team
- Acute Liaison Mental Health Service
- Nstep
- CAMHS
Each of the services above are linked to their dedicated page. Please contact the relevant team.
If you are not currently seeing one of these services and would like to register for IAPT, please answer the following questions.
Are you currently suicidal or have plans to take your life?
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Please contact 111 or the Samaritans.
You can also click here to view more information on services that can support you
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Are you currently self-harming?
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Please complete the registration form for IAPT
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Have you required medical intervention for your self-harm?
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Please contact 111 or the Samaritans. You can also click here to view more information on services that can support you.
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If you are seeing a mental health professional from any of the following services please contact the team directly:
- PCART
- UCAT - PCLW or Crisis Team
- Acute Liaison Mental Health Service
- Nstep
- CAMHS
Each of the services above are linked to their dedicated page. Please contact the relevant team.
If you are not currently seeing one of these services please register for IAPT below
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