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    Comprehensive support

    Conditions we support

    Whatever you're carrying, you don't have to face it alone. Our accredited UK therapists work across every area below — matched to what you bring.

    48+

    Conditions covered

    28+

    Approaches used

    Evidence-led

    NICE-aligned care

    Nationwide

    Online, UK-wide

    Where to begin

    You don't need a diagnosis to deserve support

    Most people arrive at therapy without a label. They arrive because something has become hard to carry alone: sleep has gone, a relationship has soured, work feels unbearable, or a grief has settled in and refused to move. The list on this page exists to help you find language for that, not to sort you into a box.

    Clinically, the distinction that matters is rarely the name of the difficulty. It is how much of your life it is taking up, how long it has been going on, and whether it is getting in the way of the things you care about. NICE guidance for common mental health problems is built around exactly that: severity, duration and impact on daily functioning, rather than a single symptom on its own.

    Difficulties also rarely arrive alone. Anxiety and low mood frequently travel together. Burnout and workplace stress overlap. Trauma can present as insomnia, irritability, or a body that never quite settles. Our therapists are trained to work with the whole picture rather than the presenting complaint, which is why the pages below cross-link rather than sit in isolation.

    If you are unsure which page fits, that is entirely normal and it is not something you need to resolve before making contact. The two-minute check will point you somewhere sensible, and a free 15-minute intro call with a therapist will get you further than any amount of reading.

    Formulation over labels

    Your therapist builds a shared picture of what is keeping the difficulty going right now — the thoughts, behaviours, relationships and history that hold it in place. That formulation, not a diagnostic code, is what the work follows.

    Evidence, applied sensitively

    We draw on the approaches with the strongest evidence for each presentation — CBT for panic and OCD, EMDR and trauma-focused work for PTSD, behavioural activation for depression — and adapt the pace to the person in the room.

    Overlap is the norm

    Around half of people who meet criteria for one common mental health difficulty meet criteria for another. Treating the pieces in isolation rarely holds. We work across them.

    Choosing a starting point

    How to use these pages

    Four honest steps, none of which require you to be certain.

    1. 1

      Notice what has changed

      Not what is wrong with you, but what is different from six or twelve months ago. Sleep, appetite, concentration, patience, the things you have quietly stopped doing. Change over time is the most useful signal there is.

    2. 2

      Read one or two pages, not fifteen

      Pick the page that sounds most like your day-to-day experience. If two feel true, read both — the cross-links between them are deliberate, because that combination is common and treatable.

    3. 3

      Take the two-minute check

      It is a brief, plain-English screener based on standard clinical questionnaires. It does not diagnose. It gives you a sense of severity and a suggested starting point you can bring to a first conversation.

    4. 4

      Talk to a therapist before deciding

      The free 15-minute intro call exists so that you can ask questions without committing. Most people find the assessment session clarifies more than weeks of self-research.

    The evidence base

    What good practice looks like in the UK

    NICE-aligned first-line care

    For most common presentations, NICE recommends a psychological therapy as a first-line option — often before, or alongside, medication. That includes CBT for anxiety disorders and depression, trauma-focused therapies for PTSD, and interpersonal or behavioural approaches where they fit the person better.

    Stepped care, honestly explained

    NHS services work on a stepped-care model: lower-intensity support first, more intensive therapy if that is not enough. Private therapy lets you start at the step that actually matches your need, which is often why people come to us after a long wait or an ill-fitting course of guided self-help.

    The relationship does much of the work

    Decades of psychotherapy research find that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is one of the most consistent predictors of outcome, across every modality. This is why we match carefully and why the intro call matters more than it looks.

    Progress is measured, not assumed

    Our therapists use validated brief measures where appropriate, so that change is visible and the plan can be adjusted if something is not working. Therapy should be accountable to you.

    Questions

    Frequently asked

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