We are involved in a number of service areas.
Adult Community Psychological Services (ACP) provide a range of psychological interventions to individuals within the community, often as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The goal is to promote reflective, compassionate, and trauma-informed care for service users and their families.
Specialised healthcare team that provides support, treatment, and care for adults experiencing eating disorders. We primarily help people who are suffering with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa and variations of these eating disorders.
The Early Intervention Service offers supports to people aged between 14 and 64 years old, who may be experiencing symptoms of first episode psychosis. Anyone aged between 14 to 18 years will also have support from the Children & Young People’s mental health services.
The support offered is designed to meet an individual’s and their family / close friend’s needs. The approach is a hopeful and positive one that endeavors to keep in place an individual’s personal strengths, healthy activities and interests.
Early Intervention Psychosis Service (EIP) – North Essex
Early Intervention Psychosis Service (EIP) – Mid Essex
Essex Support and Treatment for Early Psychosis (ESTEP) South East Essex
Essex Support and Treatment for Early Psychosis (ESTEP) South West Essex
First Episode in Psychosis (FEP) North West Essex
At Risk Mental State (ARMS) for Psychosis | Essex Partnership University NHS Trust (eput.nhs.uk)
Together with Baby (Essex Parent Infant Mental Health Service) is a specialist parent and infant mental health service. We help parents better understand their baby’s emotional responses and communications, and strengthen the relationship between them.
Many parents find that they have not bonded with their baby in the way that they had hoped. Some may also have difficult feelings about being a parent. Which can be confusing and uncomfortable. We work with parents and their infants in the first 1001 days of their life, from conception to age two.
By Your Side is a maternal mental health service provided by Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, in collaboration with midwifery colleagues, which offers therapeutic care and grief therapy for people who were pregnant and have experienced a perinatal loss. Our team aims to help people with their loss, being by your side during a devastating time.
We provide psychology and behaviour therapy support for people with learning disabilities in Essex. We are part of the Essex Learning Disability Partnership (ELDP).
The partnership aim to help adults with learning disabilities and their families or carers. We offer expert health support to keep people healthy and well.
Visit EPUT Learning Disability Service for more information.
We have both Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Services in Essex. There are four services that EPUT provide for neurodevelopmental conditions within Essex.
Find more information about the service in your area.
Autism Spectrum Disorder services
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Services
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Clinical Health Psychology Services
The Clinical Health Psychology Service (CHPS)
Complex Needs Services
Personality Disorders and Complex Needs (PD & CN)
The Personality Disorder and Complex Needs (PD&CN) Service User Network (SUN) is for service users living with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder, or for those whose complex emotional needs mean they would meet, or are within the threshold to meet, diagnostic criteria for Personality Disorder (i.e. they have ‘traits’).
Please visit our dedicated Personality Disorder and Complex Needs Service User Network (SUN) webpage, for more information.
Inpatient and Urgent Care
Adult Inpatient Psychological Services
The Transition Intensive Psychology Service (TIPS) is led by a Consultant Practitioner Psychologist, and includes Practitioner Psychologists and Systemic Family Therapists operating across Mid and South East Essex CCG, North East Essex CCG and West Essex.
We consider referrals from mental health professionals for individuals aged 18 years and older who:
- Have a diagnosis of Personality Disorder.
- Have received psychiatric inpatient care for one year or more or have a pattern of recent, lengthy, repeat admissions to psychiatric inpatient care.
- Have not been able to benefit significantly from or engage with past treatment.
- Have a history of developmental trauma.
- Have an active working relationship with their care-coordinator and an allocated psychiatrist.
The objective of TIPS is to provide highly specialist, evidence-based, trauma informed psychological treatment assisting service users to transition from frequent and prolonged inpatient care to living in the community with as much independence as possible. We aim to ultimately reduce risk, hospital admissions and re-admissions as well as length of stay in hospital.
Central to our work is recognising the effects of complex trauma (including various forms of childhood abuse) and attachment damage that can lead to relational and emotional regulation difficulties experienced by our service-users. We aim to empower service users to take responsibility for their engagement and treatment whilst offering them the skills for making changes in their lives.
Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs) are specialist mental health services who provide support to people experiencing a mental health crisis.
Psychologists in these teams assess patients, provide therapy, and support both patients and their families. They work with other mental health teams to make sure care continues smoothly and to create treatment plans that fit each person’s needs.
The Intensive Outreach Team (IOT) combines outreach and rehabilitation services. Our team includes nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists, and support workers. We help people who:
- Have serious long-term mental health problems, including those who struggle to take medication or engage with services.
- Need more support than regular community services can provide.
- Often show challenging behavior.
- Have been admitted to hospital frequently in the past two years.
- Have both severe mental illness and personality disorder.
Contact details are for the team are below.
Knightswick Clinic
92-94 Foksville Road
Canvey Island
SS8 7BE
Older People Mental Health
We offer comprehensive support and assessment for people diagnosed with dementia and their carers.
These services address a range of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, dementia, and other age-related psychological concerns
Specialist Dementia & Frailty Psychological Services are designed to support older adults experiencing dementia and frailty. These services provide comprehensive assessments, personalized care plans, and various interventions to improve the quality of life for individuals and their caregivers.
Specialist Services
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Forensic psychologists working in probation services play a crucial role in assessing offenders and developing treatment programs.
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) are provided for people under the age of 18 who require specialist support. We provide services for young people and their families throughout England across two sites: the St Aubyn Centre, Colchester and Poplar Adolescent Unit, Rochford Hospital.
At both locations, we have a team of highly qualified mental health professionals who provide assessments, treatments, educational resources and short-term rehabilitation for young people.
NHS Talking Therapies
Therapy For You NHS Talking Therapy Service offers free and flexible access to therapies, including cognitive behavioural therapy and counselling for people experiencing common everyday problems including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and specific phobias.