Psychotherapy Department (City and Hackney)

You can be referred to the service via a mental health professional.

If you are experiencing psychological difficulties that are affecting your day to day life, your thinking processes and responses, or your patterns of behaviour, speak to your GP in the first instance. They can direct you to the most appropriate service to help you.

Talk to our Virtual Assistant

You will see on the right hand side of this page that there is a small button that says 'Click to Chat'

We have launched a new feature that will enable you to communicate with the team online through a virtual 'chat'. You will be able to change appointments, request reports and documents to do with your care and ask questions. You can still contact the team by phone in the usual way. This is just an additional option.

Three ELFT services will be piloting this Virtual Assistant.

To close the Chat, simply click on 'Close Chat'

For more information and FAQs, please follow this link. 

Ways To Get Started

We have prepared these self-help presentations, with voice-overs, of the introductory sessions that we normally offer in groups as a first stage of treatment within the service. There are three different series of presentations and following your assessment the psychotherapist will have identified with you which one to complete from the list below. In order to avoid confusion, we recommend that you only access the presentations that you agreed during your assessment.

Psychotherapy Foundation Introduction (PFF)
We advise that you start with module 1 and work through them in order through to module 4. After completing module 1 there is a video to watch that we hope demonstrates how to take a curious attitude to your experiences and those of people you are interacting with in your life. The modules and video are listed below in order:
PFF Online Version - Module 1.WMV
Mentalising Video.MOV
PFF Online Version - Module 2.WMV
PFF Online Version - Module 3.WMV
PFF Online Version - Module 4.WMV

Introduction to Mentalisation Based Treatment (iMBT)
We advise that you start with module 1 and work through them in order through to module 6. After completing module 1 there is a video to watch that we hope demonstrates how to take a curious attitude to your experiences and those of people you are interacting with in your life. The modules and video are listed below in order:
iMBT Module 1 Mentalising.MP4
Mentalising Video.MOV
iMBT Module 2 Problems with Mentalising.MP4
iMBT Module 3 Emotions.MP4
iMBT Module 4 Tolerating Distress and Mentalising Emotions.MP4
iMBT Module 5 Attachment.MP4
iMBT Module 6 Understanding Personality Disorder.MP4

Understanding and Managing PTSD
This is for people who have been through traumatic experiences and have been identified as having Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The aim is to help you understand why you have developed PTSD and to be able to manage the symptoms.

We suggest that you:
Work through one section per week and complete the suggested tasks discussed at the end of each section
Think about your key areas of difficulty for discussion and treatment planning at your review
Understanding and Managing PTSD- powerpoint slides with audio.MP4
Relaxation Exercises for PTSD.MP4