IAPT Talking Therapies Northants

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.