Emergency Services

As a therapist in private practice I am unable to offer an emergency service. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need immediate emergency support you have a number of options listed below. This kind of distress may involve:

• a psychotic episode which means a serious loss of your usual sense of reality and can include hearing voices and hallucinations

• suicidal behaviour or intent

• other behaviour that is likely to endanger yourself or others

• being at serious risk of harm from someone else

UK based services

• Call NHS 111 and choose the 'mental health' option. This is for when you need help or medical treatment quickly but it's not a life-threatening emergency.

• Call 999 emergency services if you are in a life-threatening situation (yours or someone else's). Alternatively, you can go to Accident and Emergency at your local hospital if you have serious concern for your immediate safety. A & E staff will provide immediate support.

• Call 116 123 to talk to Samaritans.

Additional websites

• Hub of Hope website HERE to search for local in-person crisis support as well as phone / online-based crisis support

• Safely Held Spaces website HERE "for people experiencing extreme mental and emotional distress and altered states, often called psychosis, and for the people supporting them". They focus on organisations that take a compassionate, non-pathologising and often more holistic perspective in their approach to supporting people in such states of distress.