Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies

NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies provides treatment for adults with common mental health difficulties such as anxiety and or depression including those with co-morbid long-term physical health conditions or persistent physical symptoms.
 
Therapies are delivered according to a stepped care model, with most people receiving help at step 2 from registered or trainee psychological wellbeing practitioners (PWPs) and a further proportion going on to receive help at step 3 from accredited or trainee NHS Talking Therapies High Intensity Therapists.
 
We treat the following conditions:
Depression (excluding Bipolar Affective Disorder)
 
Anxiety Disorders:
- Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- Panic Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Hoarding
- Social Anxiety
- Health Anxiety
- Specific Phobia
- Agoraphobia: with or without Panic
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Body Dysmorphia
 
Adjustment Reaction – to specific life events, which has not responded to active monitoring e.g., loss.
 
Mixed Anxiety and Depression (the term meaning sub-syndromal depression and anxiety, rather than both anxiety and depression)
 
Referrals will also be accepted for people with comorbid long term physical health problems/persistent physical symptoms in the context of anxiety and/or depression including:
Cardiac conditions
Diabetes
Respiratory conditions e.g., COPD/Asthma
CFS/ME (chronic and/or post viral fatigue)
Long COVID
Chronic Pain
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Cancer
Menopause
 
Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies also offers employment support. Waythrough’s Employment Advisors work as part of the NHS Buckinghamshire Talking Therapies team. They can provide support for you if you are experiencing common mental health difficulties and have employment related issues. This applies whether you are currently employed, off sick from work, or unemployed and looking to find work.