The Complex Primary Care Psychology Service
The Complex Primary Care Psychology Service provides specialist, evidence-based psychological therapies to clients with chronic, complex emotional adjustment disorders. Issues that the Complex Primary Care Psychology Service may be able to help with include:
- Anxiety, panic and stress
- Effects of abuse
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Obsessions / compulsions
- Chronic physical health difficulties
- Depression
- Personality related difficulties
- Medically unexplained symptoms
Therapists will have received training in one or more NHS approved, evidence-based psychological therapies, and will work collaboratively with clients to help decide on the most appropriate type of therapy for their particular needs.
Psychologists within the service are professionally qualified and registered with the Health Professions Council as Practitioner Psychologists.
Therapists see people with a wide range of difficulties, meaning that the length of therapy offered varies from person to person. As a rough guide, clients are seen for somewhere between 6 and 20 sessions on a weekly or fortnightly basis. However, there is no fixed, upper limit for the number of sessions provided and where appropriate clients will be seen for longer than this.
The service also offers specialist consultation, advice and training on a range of clinical and service related issues to local commissioners, statutory and third sector providers
Accessing the Complex Primary Care Psychology Service
Students can be referred either directly from a GP, another healthcare provider such as a Consultant Psychiatrist, or are 'stepped-up' from briefer, less intensive interventions provided by a local Primary Care Mental Health Teams.