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What is Talking Therapies?
NHS Talking Therapies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire offers free, confidential support for people experiencing everyday mental health difficulties, including low mood, anxiety, stress, and general worries that are starting to feel hard to manage.
Our approach focuses on evidence-based techniques and therapies, to help you understand what’s affecting your wellbeing and develop new ways of responding.
Who is this service for?
NHS Talking Therapies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire is for you if you:
- Are aged 16 and over, including those over the age of 65
- Are registered with a GP in Herefordshire or Worcestershire
- Are consenting to the referral
- Are ready to engage in treatment
- Need certain adjustments to access therapy, we will support this wherever possible
Priority groups
We aim to see you as soon as possible if you are:
- Pregnant or a new parent
- A British Armed Forces veteran whose symptoms are related to their military service
How we can help
We help with common mental health symptoms of low mood and anxiety, including:
- Feeling low, hopeless or lacking motivation.
- Finding it hard to cope with work, life or relationships.
- Having flashbacks or nightmares about a past event.
- Worrying about the past or future, or thinking something bad will happen.
- Feeling anxious, irritable or struggling to relax.
- Experiencing panic attacks.
- Feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
- Having obsessive thoughts or behaviours.
- Feeling nervous in social situations.
- Managing specific fears such as spiders, flying or heights.
We can help if you have low mood or worry related to the challenges of living with a physical health condition, such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
What we can treat
We can help if you have mild to moderate symptoms linked with:
- Low mood
- Lack of motivation
- Depression
- Low self-esteem or confidence
- Worrying too much
- Stress
- Anxiety about your health
- Body dysmorphia
- Insomnia and sleep difficulties
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic
- Phobias, including agoraphobia
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Social anxiety disorder
- Worry or low mood linked to living with a long-term physical health problem
What we can't treat
We may not be the right service for you if you're experiencing:
- Severe depression or anxiety
- Risk of significant self-harm or suicide
- Post-traumatic stress related to multiple incidents and/or resulting in severe mental health problems
- Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or symptoms of psychosis, such as hallucinations or delusions
- Hoarding
- Dementia
- Significant learning disability
- Drug or alcohol misuse that would make it difficult to engage
- We cannot treat drug or alcohol misuse, but we can work with you while you are receiving treatment for this
- Eating disorder
- Skin picking disorder
- Hair pulling disorder
- Disabling complex mental health difficulties that require support from additional services
Find out more about Talking Therapies
Anxiety
Anxiety is a natural response to threats that cause you to feel worried, nervous, concerned, or uneasy.
When anxiety becomes difficult to control and affects your everyday life, then you may have an anxiety disorder.
Depression
Depression is more than just feeling unhappy or fed up for a few days.
While everyone experiences low moods from time to time, depression can cause ongoing feelings of sadness, hopelessness or a loss of interest in daily life that last for weeks or months.
