Children and Young People’s Emotional Wellbeing Service

Service Status: CLOSED to new referrals

About the service

This service offers brief, focused, evidence-based mental health support for children, young people and families who are experiencing mild-moderate symptoms of anxiety and/or low mood and is likely a recently emerging difficulty.

Young people suitable for support would experience no or very low risk to self or other people. 

The effective treatment is based on research and real-life evidence, working with lots of young people.

Our trainee Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) will assess and support children and young people with anxiety and/or low mood symptoms.

Young people will receive between 6-8 sessions of treatment (each lasting 45-60 minutes). Sessions are usually weekly and held in person, on a 1:1 basis, at our premises at Highcliffe Court (Clifton), or can be accessed by videocall. We also offer a parent-led anxiety intervention for younger children aged approximately 5 - 11 years.

How can this help?

This low intensity intervention is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and guided self-help. It focuses on setting and working towards agreed goals.

Our trainee CWPs aim to help children, young people and their parents/carers in the self-management of their recovery, to feel empowered and have tools for life.

Who can access?

Children and young people aged 12-18 years (for 1-1 sessions) experiencing symptoms of anxiety and/or low mood, OR parents / carers of younger children (c.5-11 years) who would like to access anxiety support for their child(ren).

Exclusion criteria

• We are unable to work with young people where there is current, active self-harm and/or suicidal ideation or current, ongoing safeguarding concerns.
• A young person might not be suitable for support if their difficulties are influenced by: wider family/systemic issues, co morbid difficulties or experiences of traumatic events.
• Developmental or neurodivergent differences might impact efficiency of an intervention and would be assessed on an individual case basis.
• We cannot work with young people who are receiving therapeutic input from another agency (e.g. CAMHS / Social Care)
• Please note that unsuitable referrals will be signposted back to primary services e.g. GP / School Pastoral Staff.

Referring In 

We will not accept agency referrals into this service. We welcome agencies to support young people and families in completing a referral, but the primary contact details must be for the parent/carer and/or young person themselves. 

We are currently closed to referrals. Please re-visit this webpage for further updates and details of how to refer on re-opening.