Could therapy be relevant?
Psychological therapy may help you understand what is happening and try different ways of responding. What the work involves depends on you and the approach used.
Considering Psychological Therapy
Wondering whether psychological therapy could be relevant to you, or someone you support?
Therapy is one possible response. You can explore it, consider different help or leave the question open for now.
Where would you like to begin?
Choose the question that feels most relevant to you.
I am not sure whether therapy is relevant.Start with what is happening and what matters to you. I am supporting someone.Explore your own role, boundaries and choices. I am 16 or 17, or I support someone who is.Find questions about consent, privacy and access. I think therapy could help, but I am not ready yet.Consider what feels possible now, including waiting. I want to know what I would be agreeing to.See useful questions about consent and working arrangements. I need adjustments or a different way of accessing therapy.Consider adjustments and what would make access easier. I am choosing a route or professional.Find out what to check before choosing a practitioner.
What matters to you?
You may know what has become difficult, or be trying to understand several things that seem connected. What would you like to understand or see change?
Could something else help first?
Medical care, practical changes or another kind of support may be more useful at this point. You can explore those possibilities alongside therapy, or decide to return to the question later.
Your position matters
People arrive at this question from different positions. Exploring therapy for yourself and supporting someone else are equally important starting points.
Considering therapy for yourself
You may want to understand what therapy could involve, whether an approach suits your circumstances and how you would know if the work is helping. There is room to ask questions before deciding whether to begin.
Supporting someone
You may be helping another person explore therapy or supporting them through treatment. Their decisions remain their own. Your availability and boundaries matter too, including whether you would benefit from support in your own right.
If you are 16 or 17
Your questions about consent, confidentiality and choosing care deserve clear answers. The Digital Guide explains what to ask, including when moving between young people’s and adult services.
Questions worth asking
You can find out more before agreeing to therapy. A first conversation or assessment also gives you the opportunity to consider whether a practitioner and their approach fit your needs.
About the therapy
What is being suggested, and why? What might sessions involve? How could you review progress or change the plan if something is not helping?
About working together
How can you check the practitioner’s qualifications and relevant experience? What are the confidentiality arrangements, adjustments available and costs? What would happen if the work needed to pause or end?
How to check training and professional credentials
You can ask Ēpiónē for details of a practitioner's qualifications, specialist training, professional memberships and any current accreditation before deciding whether to begin. Where an official professional register applies, we can explain how to check it. Not every therapy approach has a practitioner accreditation register.
For CBT, the BABCP CBT Register shows current BABCP accreditation or registration. The EMDR Association UK Find a Therapist directory lists accredited EMDR practitioners, consultants and trainers. It is not a directory of everyone who has completed EMDR training.
EMDR training and EMDR practitioner accreditation are different. Someone who is not listed in the EMDR accreditation directory may still have completed appropriate training. You can ask about their training, supervision and current professional standing. MANTRA does not have an equivalent practitioner accreditation register. You can ask about specialist training, supervision and experience delivering MANTRA.
The Digital Guide takes these questions further, including how to verify professional credentials and understand what informed consent involves.
Your next decision
You may decide to wait or seek different support after considering therapy. Your next step is yours to choose.
Explore therapy
Find out more about a suitable practitioner or arrange an initial conversation.
Seek different support
Consider another form of help or another route into care.
Learn more first
Use the Digital Guide to compare options and prepare questions.
Leave the question open
Decide that now is not the right time and return to it if circumstances change.
Explore the Digital Guide
Read the sections that are relevant to you, in any order. Using the guide does not commit you to treatment with Ēpiónē or anyone else.
Explore the Digital GuideConsidering support from Ēpiónē?
You can read about Psychological Therapy or support for someone in your own right. Suitability and fees can be discussed before booking.