To access talking therapies, you will first need to refer yourself for an assessment appointment. Please read our referral criteria to help you decide if this would be helpful to you.
The referral form asks you for a bit of information about the difficulties you are experiencing. Once this is submitted someone from our clinical team will look through the information. We may contact you to discuss this information before offering you an appointment for an assessment. At an assessment someone from the team will meet with you to discuss what has brought you here and discuss what may be helpful. This is a collaboration between you and us to help you to find the most suitable source of support. An outcome of this may be that you are placed on our waiting list for talking therapy such as counselling. Talking therapies are currently provided in Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley.
“The therapy has given me a lot of insight into why I do things ... I feel more in control of myself and the eating.”
Talking therapies
All staff are trained in either SSCM (Specialist Supportive Clinical Management), MANTRA (Maudsley Model of Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults), FTAN (Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa) or CBT-10. This means we can offer a range of talking therapies which include:
Guided self-help – a 6-8 session programme designed for people over the ages 16 and over who are unhappy about their relationship with food and where the problem is low level or in its early stages. Guided self help combines a written manual/booklet with a ‘guide’ (a health professional) who will help to steer you through the sessions and a set of activities so you are in charge of the changes you make and moving forward.
Counselling –sessions of counselling can give you the opportunity to explore issues around your eating disorder, and can help you work through areas of distress and difficulty which arises. You may want to work on developing strategies for managing these feelings, and the opportunity to explore moving away from the disorder and finding other ways of coping with difficulties and uncomfortable emotions.
CBT-10 – this is a programme of ten weekly sessions, for those with regular episodes of binge eating and bingeing and purging behaviours. The treatment is follows a manual which helps you identify some of the unhelpful beliefs and fears which may keep the disorder going and aims to help you to move towards reducing problem behaviours and move towards a more balanced relationship with food. CBT-10 can be offered in a group or one-to-one setting.
CBT-AN-20 - This is a structured Cognitive Behavioural Therapy programme. The therapy is aimed at people who are below a healthy weight, or who have lost a significant amount of weight, and are experiencing an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa or atypical anorexia nervosa.
