About Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies

The Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies offers help and support to improve wellbeing and manage stress, low mood, and anxiety. We aim to reduce the onset of mental ill-health, prevent deterioration and promote recovery by offering a range of flexible services tailored to meet your specific needs.

Our services, provided in community settings throughout the region, include a wide range of workshops and courses, talking therapies, including counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy. Alongside this, we also offer employment support. Our Employment Advisors are here to support anybody who is currently referred into Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies, by providing advice, motivation, and guidance regarding employment.

Norfolk & Waveney Talking Therapies work in partnership with a number of organisations. These are:

 

Norfolk Partners 

 

  • Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
    Provides a wide range of health and social care services, specialising in mental health and wellbeing
  • Norfolk and Waveney MIND
    Local division of the national mental health advocacy and support charity
  • Relate
    Relate provides counselling, support, and information for all relationships and its vision is a future in which healthy relationships are actively promoted as the basis of a thriving society. Relate offers a range of services to help you with your couple and family relationships, whether you're young or old, straight or gay, single or in a relationship. As a wellbeing service partner, Relate can offer relationship counselling for couples, individuals, and families as well as Couples Counselling for Depression.
  • ELFT Digital Therapy (EDT)  EDT are part of East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), so they are an NHS service. As a partner to us, they provide us with experienced PWPs and Therapists  that are fully integrated within our own teams of clinicians providing assessments and treatments.

Xyla and Dr Julian

Xyla Digital Therapies and Dr Julian also provide assessment and treatment within our NHS Talking Therapies. Their clinicians are trained to the same standards as our own team and offer the same range of support. If they contact you, please be assured that you are still with Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies. We involve these teams at times so that you can receive the help you are seeking without unnecessary delay.

Our Leaders

Norfolk and Waveney Talking Therapies are led by an expert team which brings together years of experience in providing high quality mental health services:

Norfolk & Waveney

  • Karl Williams - Director of Psychology for Talking Therapies
  • Lorraine Martin - Service Manager
  • Karen Lince - Deputy Clinical Lead
  • Paul Saggers - Deputy Service Manager - Step 2
  • Liza Pepper - Deputy Service Manager - Step 3
  • Ella Guy - Lead Therapist - Step 2
  • Cathy Ashby - Lead Therapist - Referral Pathways 
  • Lianne Harvey - Senior Business Support Manager
  • Heather Pym - Senior Business Support Manager
  • Vicki Knights - Marketing Lead