• Session 1 – Introduction to CBT
• Session 2 – Management of physical symptoms
• Session 3 – Managing worry and solving practical problems
• Session 4 – Noticing and challenging unhelpful thoughts
• Session 5 – Understanding and dealing with avoidance
• Session 6 – Maintaining change and planning for the future

• Session 1 – Introduction to CBT
• Session 2 – Exploring low mood and decreased activity
• Session 3 – Overcoming barriers and identifying our values
• Session 4 – Noticing unhelpful thoughts
• Session 5 – Challenging negative thoughts and improving sleep
• Session 6 – Maintaining change and planning for the future

If suitable, we can also offer the above programme. During treatment, you will be invited to complete interactive modules and receive weekly support from your assigned clinician.

The programme usually takes about 6 weeks to complete and you will be offered a telephone appointment at the beginning and end of the treatment.

1. Getting Started
2. Good Sleep Habits
3. Improving Sleep Association
4. Sleeping Less To Sleep Better (Shift work option available)
5. Managing Thoughts & Worries
6. Keeping Your Sleep Cycle Healthy

We offer a Long Term Conditions (LTC) Self Management Course for anyone living with a long term physical health condition. The course aims to help people to manage their condition better and improve their physical and emotional wellbeing. This course consists of eight weekly sessions.

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• Learn about the nature of low self-esteem: how it develops, how it affects our emotions and thoughts, and how it influences how we lead our lives. We will look at how this all fits together in common patterns of interactions
• Understand what keeps low self-esteem going
• Build experience and confidence in situations which you find difficult and which trigger self-critical or anxious thoughts
• Develop a more positive and accepting attitude towards yourself
• Plan for managing future difficulties and challenges

• More about dementia and how it affects your loved one
• More about managing stress and low mood that can occur in the role of being a carer
• How to respond when your relative is distressed and how to cope with the behaviours you find most difficult
• The opportunity to share experiences with others

Many people with physical health difficulties can have times when they feel down or worried about it. Feeling down or worried can, in turn, make it harder to manage your LTC the way you want to.

The Live Well team can help with managing the emotional impact of living with a long term condition. Please click here for further information.

• Learn about the nature of OCD, including intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviours and how this fits together in a common pattern of interactions
• Understand how making unhelpful assessments of our thoughts can cause these thoughts to become intrusive and cause behaviours to be repeated
• Develop strategies to cope with thoughts and life events, and use behavioural experiments to break the vicious cycle of OCD

• Learn daily meditation practices
• Have the opportunity of applying these ideas to your own experience, through regular meditation practice, through discussion with other participants, through exercises done in class and through weekly home practice
• Have access each week to audios to guide your meditation practice to help you consolidate what you have heard in class
• Have the unique opportunity of sharing your experiences and ideas with others who understand the issues caused by depression

• Learn daily meditation practices
• Have the opportunity of applying these ideas to your own experience, through regular meditation practice, through discussion with other participants, through exercises done in class and through weekly home practice
• Have access each week to audios to guide your meditation practice and handouts to help you consolidate what you have heard in class
• Have the unique opportunity of sharing your experiences and ideas with others who understand the difficulties caused by health problems

Move your Mood is a 10 week Step 3 depression course which has protected time for physical activity incorporated into every session. The aim is to share with our patients the many benefits of moving our bodies to aid our mental wellbeing whilst providing evidence based treatment. In it you will learn:

• Learn CBT strategies and techniques to manage and overcome low mood
• Learn about the link between low mood and physical activity
• Have 30 minutes protected time for movement and physical activity as part of the group

Testimonial from a group member:
“I enjoyed the group thoroughly and found the social interaction good. It was really good to see and hear from others going through similar things to me as well as seeing everyone getting involved with the physical side of things. It made me adjust my thinking process around ‘smiley fitness instructors’ e.g. Joe Wicks. I looked forward to attending the group and the facilitators were excellent. I’ve made a friend out of the group as well which I’m pleased about. I found it all brand new but really interesting, the content was thought provoking and got me thinking in different ways, particularly about my Rules for Living.”

This is a 10 week structured group designed to help mothers struggling with depression and anxiety after birth. The course is facilitated by a CBT Therapist, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner and Health Visitor. We also offer one session just for partners.

The group provides an improved understanding of postnatal depression and anxiety and learning to look after yourself again. We also learn to apply practical strategies using a CBT approach.

Way Forward Bucks (WFB) is a year-long programme for people who have previously been unable to lose weight or maintain previous weight loss using community services, such as WW or Slimming World. The programme includes dietetic support, physical activity guidance, and has a strong emphasis on psychology to support behavioural change which in turn encourages individual health gains.

All referrals to this programme need to be made by a registered GP or another medical professional, such as a practice nurse.

• WFB patient information leaflet
• WFB professionals information leaflet
• WFB professionals referral form

Please note that due to the medical information required, only professionals can refer to WFB.