SPACE TO BREATHE services for sps patients

The following resources and links are to facilitate our partnership with Specialist Psychology Services (SPS) to offer practical support, signposting to services, emotional stabilisation & mindfulness to individuals who are working with the service.

This service is for individuals who are 18+, currently an SPS patient and fit with the referral criteria. These services are aimed to provide:

• One to one emotional stabilisation support: this can include grounding, handling stress and anxiety, managing sleep and rest, handling overwhelm, developing a wellbeing toolkit. This can also involve practical support like debt, life organising, housing etc.

• Involvement in a post-therapy support group: the opportunity to join in a post therapy support group where individuals can discuss the impact and effects of ending therapy, ways to bed in what they’ve learnt and handling endings. This offer is available to anyone ending therapy and they can be a member for up to one year.

• Involvement in the continuing mindfulness group: the opportunity to carry on learning about mindfulness if either a) you’ve been part of the SPS group or b) it’s considered mindfulness could assist an individual.

We believe these services will be particularly beneficial

a) when an individual is facing a lot of external challenges outside the remit of their SPS sessions.

b) where there is concern at how an individual might handle the conclusion of their support (discharge)

or c) how prepared they might be for an intervention in the first place, these services would be of benefit.

Full service details and referral criteria have been sent to the team but are available here.

To refer someone to the project use the button below to access and complete the referral form.

The project is being run and managed by Andy Freeman. You can contact him below.