NHS Manchester Talking Therapies

Our online therapy platform, Silvercloud, provides access to a range of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy programmes that can help you work on anxiety, low mood and stress. These programmes can be accessed in your own time, anywhere, from a device connected to the internet. You will also have access to Silvercloud for one year after therapy.

You will be supported throughout the programme by one of our practitioners (with weekly or fortnightly support calls for 6 weeks) who will provide guidance and tailor the online therapy to meet your needs.

We offer online taster sessions to help improve your mental health and wellbeing. Current sessions available, include:

• Managing Stress
• Perinatal Mental Health and Wellbeing

These taster sessions are around 30-45 minutes in length and will introduce Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) skills and techniques that you can learn and continue to practice in your own time.

To register for one of our taster sessions, click here to make a referral. Once you have completed our form, you will be sent an email containing further information and a video link to the taster session.

Click here to register for an online stress taster.

In the future, we’ll be launching more sessions on different topics, so please check back with us!

Please note: this service is unlikely to be suitable for you if you are at immediate or imminent risk to yourself or others. To access support in a crisis, click here.

Workshops at NHS Manchester Talking Therapies can provide you with skills and techniques to manage how you are feeling in the ‘here and now’. Our workshops will help you learn how to manage emotions and negative thoughts, which will have a positive impact on your life.

Low Mood Workshop

Overcoming Worry Workshop

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction workshop

Click here to make a referral to one of our workshops.

As part of your therapy, you might work with a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) who will provide talking therapy, based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), that can help with common mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression.

As part of your therapy, you might work with a Counsellor who can help you to identify any problems in your life, allowing you to reflect on what is happening and consider alternative ways of doing things.

If you’re not sure about what therapy might be most helpful for you, then please use the form below to arrange a conversation with one of our practitioners about the options available to you.

Click here to make a referral to speak to a practitioner.

We provide instant access to SilverCloud – an informative online therapy programme proven to help with stress, anxiety, low mood, and depression.

Flexible, use it anytime, anyplace, anywhere…

Whether at home, work or elsewhere. On a computer, tablet or on a mobile phone. Work flexibly at a steady pace.

State of the art technology…

Includes easy to follow programmes with:

• Video clips
• Interactive quizzes
• A journal
• Audio-guided mindfulness exercises
• Reflective exercises… and more

Accessible and easy to use…

You work independently with guidance from one of our practitioners who will offer weekly or fortnightly support calls for 6 weeks. The programmes consists of evidence-based interventions including; activities and concepts from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy all recognised to have a positive impact on low mood and anxiety.

How do I access?

Click here to make a referral for online therapy.

Our workshops will help you learn how to manage emotions and negative thoughts through various evidenced-based tools and techniques.

1 – Contact with our service: Once we have received your referral, a member of our team will contact you to provide you with further details, and book you on to your chosen workshop. If we think one of our other options may be more suitable we will discuss this with you.

2 – Attend, learn & practice: Our workshops cover a different tool each week. It is recommended that these are practiced each week in-between sessions to gain the most benefit.

3 – Workshops are facilitated by qualified practitioners.

4 – There is no need to share and talk about your problems if you do not wish to do so. You can participate as much or as little as Find out more about our workshops below:you like. Our workshops aim to be relaxed and informative, providing you with the skills to manage your symptoms. Our workshops are not group talking therapy.

A six-week workshop for people who are experiencing symptoms related to low mood and would like to create healthy coping strategies and promote ongoing wellbeing. You will be guided through various evidenced-based tools and techniques based on principles from Cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT).

CBT focuses on the here and now, and continues outside of sessions. CBT aims to help you see the links between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Providing you with the skills to improve day-to-day management of the symptoms of low mood, such as increasing motivation and challenging negative thoughts.

Click here to make a referral to a workshop.

• Mondays, 1pm – 2.30pm (Northmoor Community Centre)
• Tuesdays, 1.30pm – 3pm (Microsoft Teams)

A six-week workshop for people who are experiencing symptoms related to worrying and would like to create healthy coping strategies and promote ongoing wellbeing. You will be guided through various evidenced-based tools and techniques, based on principles from Cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT).

CBT focuses on the here and now, and continues outside of sessions. CBT aims to help you see the links between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Providing you with the skills to improve day-to-day management of the symptoms of worrying, including: relaxation techniques, letting go, problem solving and challenging negative thoughts.

Click here to make a referral to a workshop.

• Wednesdays, 5.30pm – 7pm (Microsoft Teams)
• Thursdays, 1.30pm – 3pm (Microsoft Teams)

An eight-week evidenced-based workshop that helps people disentangle from their stresses by strengthening their capacity to observe what is happening in the present moment, non-judgmentally. The workshop includes Mindfulness Meditations, Mindful Movement, Mindful Walking, Self-Compassion and numerous different theories and concepts to help people cultivate loving awareness of themselves in their lives, increasing wellbeing.

Click here to make a referral to a workshop.

• Fridays, 12pm – 2pm (Kath Locke Centre)