Priory Hospital Ticehurst House

Priory Hospital Ticehurst House’s residential adult general mental health service takes place at Highlands. We use a range of therapeutic interventions and multiple therapy formats, designed to treat a wide range of mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, stress, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our specialist team are dedicated to providing you with established and innovative treatment programmes, enabling you to tackle your mental health challenges and symptoms, explore the underlying causes and triggers for your mental health difficulties, and empower you to make a full and sustainable recovery.

We are also able to offer flexible outpatient treatment for your mental health concerns within our specialised outpatient facility. The Lodge Therapy Centre, is located within the tranquil grounds of Ticehurst House, and offers adults, adolescents and children a welcoming sanctuary to explore their mental health and wellbeing.  

Unfortunately, conditions such as depression, anxiety, stress, OCD and PTSD are unlikely to go away on their own, and often require expert psychological treatment and therapy to overcome. Without professional intervention, these conditions may become progressively worse over time and continue to have a detrimental impact on all areas of your life, which is why it is so important to seek the specialist help and support that you need. At Ticehurst House, we assign our highly skilled mental health professionals in a way that is flexible around the needs of each individual, enabling us to deliver bespoke treatment, and facilitate lifelong recovery.

Priory Hospital Ticehurst House provides personalised and innovative outpatient treatment programmes for adults and young people. These are offered on an individual basis or as part of a group therapy programme. Our therapeutic techniques include:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
• Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
• Person-centred therapy (PCT)

We also guarantee:

• Rapid and convenient access to treatment
• Direct access into therapy
• A highly skilled multidisciplinary team
• Recovery-focused care which addresses the needs of each individual, centred around evidence-based practice

You can read more about the type and format of the therapies offered at Ticehurst House, on our approach to treatment page, or you can download our dedicated mental health treatment brochure.

At Ticehurst House, we believe that the location and setting for mental health treatment is just as important in the recovery process as the treatment programme itself. Our beautiful site and welcoming hospital environment really do help our patients in their road to recovery.

We provide:

• Beautiful private grounds including landscaped gardens, in which our patients are able to relax and unwind
• Comfortable and welcoming therapy and consultation rooms
• Close proximity to the well-appointed village of Ticehurst, offering access to local amenities
• Close proximity to the A21 and the town of Wadhurst
• Easy access to Central London and the Home Counties

Our highly qualified team at Priory Hospital Ticehurst House comprises some of the country’s leading mental health experts, each of whom possess a wealth of experience and bring extensive expertise to our services. Our dedicated team comprises:

• Consultant psychiatrists
• Clinical psychologists
• Therapists
• Mental health nurses

Priory boasts a diverse team of practitioners. Committed to providing the best treatment to each and every one of our patients, they pride themselves on placing patients at the heart of the treatment journey. This approach ensures that you are allocated to the best expert for your needs and benefit from a truly bespoke treatment programme.

For detailed biographies on individual experts, including their backgrounds, specialisms and qualifications: Please click here to view our specialists

We are continually monitored by our independent regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), in order to ensure that we are delivering the highest standards of care to each individual that seeks support with us.

Choosing to self-fund

There are many reasons why people may choose to pay to receive specialist outpatient mental health care at Priory Hospital Ticehurst House. It may be due to local NHS providers having long waiting times for treatment, or not being able to offer the specific package of treatment that you need. Alternatively, you may just prefer the peace of mind of receiving efficient access to specialist treatment from the UK’s leading independent provider of mental healthcare and addiction services.

We are dedicated to delivering evidence-based outpatient therapy that results in the most positive outcomes, and can book appointments at a time that is convenient for you. For more information on how to commence with exceptional treatment at Ticehurst House, contact us today on: 0800 840 3219 or via email

Using your private medical insurance for mental health treatment

The Priory Group is a registered and approved provider for all of the UK’s leading private medical insurers, including Bupa, Vitality, Aviva, Cigna, WPA and AXA PPP.

If you have access to private medical insurance, either personally or through your workplace, your policy will usually require you to obtain a GP referral before undergoing treatment with Priory, and you will be requested to provide your insurance policy details at the time of booking the initial consultation, so that pre-authorisation may be agreed with the insurance provider.

In addition, different policies cover different levels of care, so for any queries, it is advisable to contact your insurer, or our dedicated admissions team on: 0800 840 3219, who will be delighted to assist you with any questions that you may have.

Priory Hospital Ticehurst House also provides specialist adult acute mental health services, as well as a dedicated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) offering, in partnership with the NHS. For more information on our NHS services, visit our Priory Hospital Ticehurst House NHS services page.