Family Therapy

When someone is experiencing a serious mental health problem, it can affect the whole family.

Family Therapy and Family Interventions bring people together to better understand what is happening, explore how difficulties are affecting relationships and find new ways to support one another and move forward.

Sessions can involve anyone the person feels would be helpful, including partners, parents, children, siblings, grandparents, friends or other important people in their life.

Support is available across Hull and the East Riding, with face-to-face and online sessions available. The team also works closely with the person’s care co-ordinator so that support remains joined up and consistent.

How to Access this Service

Referrals are accepted from any Adult Mental Health Services team within Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

If you or your family think that family therapy or family interventions might help you, speak to your care co-ordinator who can refer you to the team. If you would like to talk with a member of the team to find out more about these treatments and their benefits, your care co-ordinator will be able to arrange this for you. If you want to go ahead with the referral, you and your family will be invited to complete a short questionnaire to identify how we can help you.

If you are not currently in mental health services, you can arrange a mental health assessment through the Mental Health Response Service (MHRS) process to consider if secondary mental health services may be beneficial for you.

Contact Details

Please contact your Community Mental Health Team who will put you in touch with the Family Interventions Practitioner.