Mental Health and Wellbeing

Between them, clinicians at The Cavendish Clinic offer sessions between 8am - 9pm, Monday to Friday. Not all clinicians are available every day.

We will ask what days and times suit you best for sessions, and accommodate your preferences whenever we can.

At The Cavendish Clinic, 60 minute sessions are priced between £130 and £160. There is an additional charge for sessions that are 60 - 90 minutes. If you have any questions about the cost, you are welcome to contact us.

At The Cavendish Clinic, 50 - 60 minute sessions are priced between £130 and £160. There is an additional charge for sessions that are 60 - 90 minutes. If you have any questions about the cost, reach out and schedule a free introductory consultation with one of our expert clinicians.

Yes. We accept self-referrals. We also accept referrals from professionals, including clinicians working at other physical health or mental health services.

Family members or significant others can help you with the referral process if you would like, but we will need to have your written consent before we correspond with them. 

There is no charge for an introductory consultation of up to 60 minutes.

If you decide to have an assessment, we will ask you to pay via a bank transfer at least 24 hours before this takes place.

Payment for ongoing sessions is also via a bank transfer on the day of each appointment.

The clinician(s) you are seeing will send invoices to you outlining the fee and their bank details.

If someone else is paying the invoice on your behalf, such as a family member, we will need your written consent to correspond with them directly about invoices - or we will send invoices to you and ask you to share these with them.

Some clinicians at The Cavendish Clinic accept health insurance payment.  This information is listed on each clinician’s profile.

If you arrange with a clinician that payment will be made via a health insurance, you will be asked to provide your membership number and a pre-authorisation code in advance of an assessment. This is so that we can confirm we have authorisation to offer you a service. It also means we can clarify if there are any stipulations we need to know about, such as if the insurance company states how many sessions can be offered.

Most of the therapies we offer at The Cavendish Clinic are short- to medium-term therapies, usually taking place on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

We find that many people benefit from 8 - 20 sessions, depending on their reasons for referral and therapy goals. However, some people have fewer sessions, and others have more. Schema therapy, in particular, is usually offered over a period of 6 months to 2 years. 

At the end of an assessment, we will give you an indication of the number of sessions we think could be beneficial - this will be based on several factors, including your hopes and expectations for therapy, any previous experience of therapy and whether there are any circumstances that may impact on your ability to meet regularly or test out strategies between sessions.

We will review the usefulness of therapy with you every 4 - 6 sessions, or at different points if you prefer. At these points, we can also revisit the estimated number of sessions we think may be beneficial.

Our aim is to help reduce the concerns or difficulties that have contributed to you seeking therapy, and their impact, and to improve your emotional wellbeing and quality of life. We want you to feel brighter, and more confident, and able to apply the strategies gained through therapy, day-to-day, and even when facing challenging situations in the future.  

At the assessment, we will ask you about the main reasons for considering therapy, and about your hopes and expectations for this. We will also ask you to tell us a bit about what life was like growing up and about your current day-to-day circumstances, such as how you generally spend your time. We will tell you about how we work, the main therapy approaches that The Cavendish Clinic offers, and which of those we think may be more beneficial for you, and why. You will have the opportunity to ask us as many questions as you would like.

At the end of the assessment, we will make a plan together for how to proceed. Our clinicians have extensive experience of providing different therapy approaches to adults who have diverse backgrounds, including incorporating adaptations based on preferences, strengths and needs.

However, sometimes we do not think that our service is best placed to help address the concerns or difficulties a person tells us about. In this instance, we would explain why this is and try to signpost on to colleagues. 

At The Cavendish Clinic, we have many years of experience of providing different short-, medium- and longer-term evidence-based psychological therapy approaches to adults who have diverse backgrounds. At the end of a therapy assessment, the clinician will offer some suggestions about the therapies that may be most beneficial for you, and why.  

This is something that we will also talk about during the formulation stage of therapy – that this takes place during the initial sessions, when you and the clinician will work collaboratively to develop a shared understanding of factors that may have increased vulnerability for difficulties arising and being maintained.

Oftentimes, more than one approach is indicated. In this situation, you and the clinician will consider which fits with your personal preferences, any previous experience of therapy and your goals. Alternatively, the clinician may suggest a more integrative therapy approach, which means incorporating different and complementary strategies.

You will be offered information about different options, so that you can think about what suits you best, in your own time. You will have the opportunity to ask as many questions as you would like, to help you reach a decision.  

We offer a broad range of evidence-based psychological therapies at The Cavendish Clinic. Our clinicians also have extensive experience of adapting these to make them more tailored and paced for adults who have diverse strengths, preferences and difficulties.

The main therapy approaches we offer are:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

• Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)

• Couples and Family Work (Systemic Therapy)

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

• Mindfulness 

• Schema Therapy 

We almost always offer sessions online, rather than in person. If you are unsure if this way of working will suit you, let us know and we can arrange a free introductory consultation so that you test out what this is like.

Some clinicians at The Cavendish Clinic have published scientific articles about working online during the height of the covid pandemic, when this way of working became more commonplace.

Some clinicians offer a very limited number of in person sessions. You can check this with us.

Yes, what you talk about with our clinicians will be confidential. The only time that we would breach confidentiality is if you disclose information that makes us concerned that you, or someone else, are at serious risk. We will always aim to let you know about our concerns before we notify relevant parties, such as your GP or another health professional involved in your care.

The clinician you are seeing will give you their email address and contact phone number. They will endeavour to reply to you between sessions as swiftly as they can. However, please note that your clinician and The Cavendish Clinic do not provide an emergency service. If you require urgent help or support between appointments, we recommend contacting your GP, emergency services via 999, Accident & Emergency, or crisis help lines (including The Samaritans and NHS Direct).

Please let us know if you need to rearrange or cancel an appointment. Our clinicians aim to be flexible and will offer an alternative date/time to meet.

We do not charge for therapy sessions that have been cancelled more than 48 hours in advance.  You may be charged if you cancel with less notice.

Yes, at The Cavendish Clinic we offer a free 60 minute introductory consultation.

This is an opportunity to find out about the referral, talk through any questions you may have and share some information about who we are and how we work.

We are not entrepreneurial and there is no hard sell. At the end of the appointment, you do not have to decide whether to book a therapy assessment. We will encourage you to take the time to think over what will suit you best, and you will be welcome to ask further questions afterwards. This is because one of the aims of the introductory consultation is for you to find out what it is like to talk to a clinician about things that are challenging or difficult - some people find this easy, but many do not, so we think that having a chance to test this out is important and can be helpful.

Please note the introductory consultation is not an in depth therapy assessment. We will not ask for extensive information about your current circumstances or past. Depending on the reasons for considering therapy, we may not offer an opinion, at this point, on which psychological approach we think is most indicated.

At the end of the introductory consultation, if we think a different service would be better placed to help you, we will explain why this is and try to signpost you to colleagues.