Lambeth & Southwark Mind
- Unit 4, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace
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Welcome to Lambeth and Southwark Mind
We work across both boroughs to support positive mental health and wellbeing. Working closely with a range of partners, we offer a number of activities, from our peer support groups to an information line. Our mission is to provide free, innovative, long-term services that empower and support everyone experiencing a mental health problem.
What are Support Groups?
Peer support happens when people with a similar lived experience come together to provide emotional, social or practical help to each other.
In Lambeth and Southwark Mind, this means that people who have an experience of mental ill-health can spend time together, connect, share experiences and ideas of what can help. This support can be helpful for all involved – those supporting can feel helpful, useful and involved and those being supported can feel less alone, isolated and understand that others have had similar experiences.
We feel more connected
Mental ill health can lead to us feeling alone, like we are the only person going through this, that we are isolated and that nobody else can help. This can lead to feelings of helplessness, a downward spiral of depression, anxiety or hopelessness. This can make things worse and lead to us doing things that aren’t helpful.
Peer support can mean that someone else is there, sometimes simply ‘I get that…’ or ‘when I felt like that, I tried this and it was really helpful’ can make a huge difference.
Understanding and empathy
Trying to explain how things are to someone who has never experienced a mental health issue can be really tough – sometimes simply finding the words to describe what is happening can be impossible and can feel like wading through treacle. And when others don’t understand, it can lead to frustration.
When people have their own experiences, it can be much easier. People get it. They understand. They have often felt similar things themselves or can see where you’re coming from, even if it is different from them. This can be a relief.
Independence and self-worth
Peer support is working together. Everyone is helping everyone – we can all feel empowered, build independence, increase our self-worth by knowing we are an important part of the support, even if often we say very little. And we know that even if we are the one being helped today, at some point we will be able to help someone else.
In Lambeth and Southwark Mind, all groups will be led by a Peer Support Facilitator who has lived experience of mental health. They will focus on working towards wellbeing and recovery. All our peer support groups are for anyone aged 18 and above.
COVID19: At the moment, all groups meet online only.
For more information about a group, please click on their picture below
Peer support group
Kindred Minds is a drop-in group for people African/Caribbean heritage backgrounds experiencing difficulties with mental health.
Hearing Voices group is a drop-in group for anyone who experience voices, visions and other unusual sensory perceptions or alternative realities.
Peer support group is a daytime, weekly support group for anyone experiencing ill mental health.
Friends in Need
Open Minds
Southwark Women’s Forum
Friends in Need is an evening group for anyone experiencing difficulties with depression and/or anxiety.
A welcoming drop-in group for people who are experiencing difficulties and are or have been in contact with mental health services.
A women-only support group for those who have lived experience of mental health problems.
Southwark User Council
SUC offers support for those who are on psychiatric wards through befriending and supporting during the treatment period and immediately after.
Psychosis Therapy Project
The Psychosis Therapy Project offers treatment for people experiencing psychosis, with a team of psychoanalytically trained practitioners. The service is committed to strategies of stabilisation and the management of persistent symptoms. The therapeutic work we offer is long-term (up to one year), giving clients time and space to articulate distressing experiences and cultivate robust and enduring solutions.
Where are Psychosis Therapy sessions held?
The South London branch of the Psychosis Therapy Project operates within the ‘Psychotherapy for All’ Clinic at Lambeth & Southwark Mind, 4th floor, 336 Brixton Road, London SW9 7AA.
Who is this service available to?
The service is available to Lambeth and Southwark residents aged 18 and over who are experiencing symptoms of psychosis.
The term ‘psychosis’ is generally used to describe states of mind characterised by experiences such as:
- Hearing voices
- Seeing or sensing things that others don’t
- Experiencing unusual beliefs or paranoia
- Experiencing invasive ideas or bodily sensations
- Major depressive or manic episodes
These experiences can be frightening or overwhelming. They are much more common than most people think. For more information download our leaflet.
How can I access the Psychosis Therapy Service?
We welcome self-referrals and referrals from mental health professionals in the Lambeth and Southwark area. If you would like to refer yourself or someone else for psychotherapy, please download the Referral Form and send it to Project Manager Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz or call 020 7501 9203 (Mondays and Fridays).
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