Expert mental health treatment at Priory Wellbeing Centre Birmingham

We are able to provide established outpatient treatment for a wide variety of mental health conditions including:

Depression treatment in Birmingham

Depression is a severe and debilitating mental health condition, which causes individuals to experience overwhelming feelings of sadness and despair. It is important to recognise that it is normal for us all to feel sad and ‘down’ from time to time, but if you find that you are experiencing crushing low moods that are affecting your ability to function, it may be that you are struggling with depression.

Depression symptoms can be difficult to cope with and include persistent feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness, which can often prevent people from reaching out and seeking the support that they need. However, it’s important to understand that depression is treatable, and the most crucial first step towards overcoming your depression and regaining control of your life is to seek professional help. Our depression specialists in Birmingham are committed to delivering high quality and evidence-based outpatient treatment for your depression, enabling you to tackle your symptoms, and take steps towards the healthy, happy and fulfilling life that you deserve.

Anxiety treatment in Birmingham

Anxiety is a broad term that encompasses a range of different disorders, all of which can have a profoundly negative impact on an individual’s quality of life, and their ability to function. Although it is common for everyone to feel anxious and worried on occasions, experiencing these emotions over a prolonged period of time and in a heightened manner, may indicate that you are struggling with a debilitating anxiety disorder.

Anxiety comes in many different forms and is characterised by individuals experiencing overwhelming feelings of worry and dread that seem to be disproportionate to the situation. These anxiety symptoms can often make even the simplest of tasks seem impossible, and may act as a barrier to people seeking the professional support that they need. However, it’s important to recognise that you’re not alone, and you don’t have to struggle with anxiety; this condition is treatable, and it is possible for you to make a full and sustainable recovery. Our anxiety treatment experts in Birmingham are dedicated to providing each and every one of our patients with bespoke outpatient anxiety treatment, enabling you to reduce your symptoms, tackle the underlying triggers and causes for your anxiety, and take steps towards a more positive way of life.

Stress treatment in Birmingham

Stress is usually experienced in response to severe emotional or mental pressure, and unfortunately, is becoming an increasingly common problem in the context of modern working life. Whilst we can all feel stressed from time to time, if you find that your stress is becoming difficult to cope with or is causing you to experience physical symptoms and emotional exhaustion, it may be that you require expert therapy to help you to overcome it.

Chronic stress is unlikely to improve on its own, and can become progressively worse over time, ultimately having a hugely detrimental impact on both your personal and professional life. Outpatient stress treatment in Birmingham has been designed to enable you to overcome your stress symptoms, learn new and healthier ways to cope with stress in the future, and take steps towards recovery and wellbeing.

Our team of experts at Birmingham are also able to provide outpatient support for:

• OCD
• PTSD and trauma
• Bereavement and grief counselling
• Panic attacks
• Anxiety attacks
• Personality disorders
• Anger management issues
• Sleep disorders
• Sexual dysfunction or psychosexual issues
• Gender dysphoria
• Self-harm
• Perinatal depression
• Transcultural mental health issues

We are also able to offer Young People’s Services in Birmingham, for individuals under the age of 18 who need help for their mental health problems. This service is led by highly qualified child and adolescent mental health experts, and involves:

• 1:1 therapy for mild to moderate mental health needs
• Consultant psychiatrist appointments on-site

We also offer a range of outpatient therapy packages for young people, to treat:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs)
• PTSD

Relationship counselling and therapy in Birmingham

Another specialist service that we are able to offer at Priory Wellbeing Centre Birmingham is expert counselling and therapy for individuals and couples who are experiencing relationship problems.

Sheila Ridgley, an established counsellor and therapist at the wellbeing centre, has a wealth of experience in providing specialist relationship support and therapy. She specialises in working with couples, individuals, and families, and focuses upon relationship problems that arise as a result of issues such as infidelity, communication, different life stages, bereavement, depression, work-life balance, or feelings of low-self-esteem that impact on peoples' lives and relationships. Our relationship counselling and therapy service is aimed at:

• Marriages
• Longer-term relationships
• Newly formed relationships
• Those who are separated or divorced

Like all staff at the centre, Sheila, is dedicated to providing bespoke therapy creating a safe, supportive and non-judgemental environment for individuals, couples and families to receive support.

Mental health in the workplace is becoming an increasingly prevalent issue in today’s society, especially in the context of modern city life. Working in highly competitive and pressurised environments can cause individuals to develop what is known as ‘executive stress’, which in turn, may lead to further mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. If you work in a challenging occupational environment and find that you are struggling to manage your stress levels and work-life balance, our specialist team at Birmingham can help you to improve your mental resilience, enabling you to thrive within the workplace and manage occupational pressures in a healthy way.

As well as having a negative impact on the individual, mental health problems in the workplace cost UK employers approximately £30 billion per year in lost production, employee absence and recruiting new staff. Therefore, we are also able to provide bespoke training to organisations to help to improve workforce performance and wellbeing, and we welcome enquiries from employers who wish to promote a culture of positive mental health within their business.

Outpatient mental health treatment in Birmingham comprises a wide variety of treatment approaches, all of which are underpinned by clinical research and have been found to be highly effective in the treatment of mental health conditions. We are able to provide:

• Outpatient therapy for your mental health challenges, delivered in a number of different formats including:
  • 1:1 therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Couples therapy
• A number of different therapeutic techniques including:
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
  • Psychodynamic counselling
  • Systemic therapy
  • Solution-focused approaches
  • Transactional analysis
  • Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)

You can read more about our different treatment options on our approach to mental health treatment page.

We are also able to offer psychosexual therapy to our patients at Priory Wellbeing Centre Birmingham. Psychosexual therapy is a specialist therapeutic method that has been specifically designed to help people who are struggling with psychological/sexual difficulties. This form of therapy combines elements of behavioural and cognitive techniques, helping people to develop an understanding of their sexual problems, broaden their choices of sexual expression, and better express their sexual needs.

Psychosexual therapy can take place as part of couples therapy sessions, or on an individual basis, and provides an opportunity for people to talk about their issues with a compassionate and supportive therapist who has a wealth of experience in helping to resolve a wide range of sexual problems. 

Some of the issues that are explored in psychosexual therapy include: 

• Loss of sexual desire
• Painful intercourse
• Difficulties with orgasm
• Arousal disorders
• Premature or delayed ejaculation
• Erectile dysfunction
• Sexual difficulties following abuse
• Relationship breakdowns
• Not being able to achieve penetrative sex
• Fear of sex
• Menopause
• Pregnancy and post-natal sex
• Sexuality and physical illness
• Poor body image relating to intimacy

Each member of our specialist treatment team has an extensive knowledge base in the field of mental health, and many are published experts within this area. We are dedicated to providing evidence-based outpatient therapy for all of your mental health challenges, and ensure that all treatment is bespoke and underpinned by robust National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines.