Priory Clinic Aberdeen
- Highly qualified specialists
- Online and face-to-face appointments
- Mental health assessment from just £75
About this location
Priory Clinic Aberdeen is conveniently located right in the heart of Aberdeen’s city centre, providing fast access to flexible outpatient support for a range of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and stress. We can offer evening appointments, allowing busy people to access the mental health treatment they need, planned around work and other commitments.
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Our services
Our flexible treatment programmes include outpatient therapy, which is designed to fit around your existing commitments.
For more information on the outpatient treatment we offer throughout our wider Priory network, including at Priory Clinic Aberdeen, please click the link below:
At Priory Clinic Aberdeen, our experts have a wealth of experience in delivering a wide range of therapy services, including:
Mental health difficulties can prevent you from functioning effectively on a daily basis and can have a negative impact on your psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing. Without professional support, mental health problems can become worse and can lead to you developing other mental health conditions and long-term problems.
At our Aberdeen clinic, we recognise that all of our patients are different and have unique mental health challenges. Therefore, we're dedicated to placing you at the heart of your treatment journey, ensuring that treatment is unique to your needs, so that we can deliver the most effective mental health and wellbeing support for you.
We use a range of therapeutic techniques, helping you to overcome your mental health challenges, reduce your symptoms and improve your quality of life. All treatment packages are designed in close collaboration with you and are individually tailored to your unique requirements, in order to produce the best possible outcomes. If you need more intensive treatment or specialist support, Priory's nationwide network and our close clinical links with Priory Hospital Glasgow mean that we can facilitate a seamless transition to inpatient mental health services, if this is needed.
Our psychiatrists and therapists in Aberdeen
At Priory Clinic Aberdeen, our team of highly qualified psychiatrists and therapists are dedicated to providing exceptional care and personalised treatment plans for a range of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD, ensuring the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Frequently asked questions
Here, you will find some commonly asked questions about Priory Clinic Aberdeen.
What mental health conditions are treated?
At Priory Clinic Aberdeen, we deliver tailored treatment for a range of mental health conditions including:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Bereavement and grief counselling
- Panic attacks
- Anger management issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Personality disorders
- Sleep disorders
Who makes up the expert team?
Our specialist team consists of a psychiatrist and two therapists, all of whom are leaders in the field of mental health, and bring extensive clinical experience to our services. You can be reassured that our team in Aberdeen are qualified to provide the best treatment possible, and produce the most positive outcomes for you. We also ensure that our specialists engage in continuous professional development to guarantee their practice adheres to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, and is guided by the very latest research.
Dr Allen Shand is Priory Clinic Aberdeen's consultant psychiatrist, specialising in general adult psychiatry. Dr Shand is a dedicated member of our team, ensuring that we can offer the very best, bespoke mental health treatment, flexibly and discreetly. He is an elected member of the Roya| College of Psychiatrists and has ongoing research interests in depression, SAD and bipolar disorder.
Our specialists pride themselves on placing patients at the heart of the treatment journey. This approach ensures that you're allocated to the best expert for your needs and benefit from a truly bespoke treatment programme.
How do I pay for treatment?
There are two ways you can pay to receive treatment at Priory Clinic Aberdeen:
- Self-paying – this means that you pay for your treatment yourself
- Payment via private medical insurance – we are a registered and approved provider for all of the UK’s leading private medical insurers, including Aviva, AXA Health, Bupa, Cigna, Healix, Vitality and WPA
For more information on self-funding your treatment or using your private medical insurance to pay for our services, call us today on 0800 098 4816 or visit our fees and funding page.
How is Priory Clinic Aberdeen regulated?
The services we provide are continually monitored by our independent regulator, Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), which is the healthcare body that's responsible for service regulation in Scotland. HIS inspectors check that independent healthcare services are complying with necessary standards and regulations, meaning that you can be assured that the treatment you receive at Priory Clinic Aberdeen is of the highest standards.
If you do have the need to complain, have followed Priory’s complaints process and are unhappy with the outcome, you still have the option to contact an independent organisation, including the national regulator, HIS. Full details can be found in Priory’s 'making a complaint' booklet, available upon request.
Why Priory?
Private medical insurance
We are a registered and approved provider for all of the UK's leading private medical insurers. The services that we offer at Priory can be funded through private medical insurance. This includes:
- Mental health treatment
- Addiction treatment
- Eating disorder treatment
All clients will have access to our highly skilled and accredited clinicians, many of whom are published experts in their fields of treatment. Whatever your requirements, we are committed to working with you to get your life back on track.
