High Peak team

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Support available in your neighbourhood

We want to support your recovery journey and wellbeing in order to support you with fulfilling your potential. There are various options for support across Derbyshire which cover your area.  We have provided you with some information below about courses and support available in and around High Peak but if you want to know more please contact our team.

Derbyshire Recovery and Peer Support Service

Rethink Mental Illness has been awarded a contract with Derbyshire County Council and the four Derbyshire CCG’s to deliver a county-wide Recovery and Peer Support Service.  The service will help people improve and maintain their mental health and wellbeing and reconnect with their local community by offering access to targeted one-to-one staff support, telephone support and community groups, and is open to anyone over the age of 18 living in Derbyshire who is experiencing mental ill health.

Managing Emotions Group (MEP)

The Managing Emotions Programme aims to help people who experience significant difficulties with changing emotions. In the 1-session Workshop (lasting 2½ hours), we discuss why we have emotions, their function and what happens when it feels difficult to manage. We also introduce you to some basic coping skills. In the 4-session course we help you to understand emotions in greater depth, looking at their different components and levels of intensity. You will also learn strategies that may help you manage your emotions in different situations. The 8-session long course follows on from the 1-session workshop and 4-session short course. The long course aims to  help people develop a greater understanding of what triggers intense emotions and how to respond.

It covers topics such as:

• Emotional awareness: where you will learn more about emotions and why we have them
• Emotional regulation: looking at how to build resilience, taking time for self-care, and different sources of stress
• Acknowledging unhelpful thoughts: recognising and challenging thought processes, reducing distress and increasing awareness
• Mindfulness skills: learning to be aware of thoughts, emotions, feelings, and actions, and being in the present moment
• Acceptance and values: being aware of emotions and exploring what is important to you in your life
• Understanding schemas: learning about how we make sense of information from our environment
• Communication and interpersonal effectiveness: understanding how we relate to others and others relate to us, including verbally and non-verbally
• Looking to the future: reviewing skills learned and further thought for how these can be used in day-to-day life

Safe Foundations Group - Trauma Stabilisation

• A 6 session psychoeducation course focused on helping people understand the here and now impact of trauma. The 6 sessions explore triggering, the effects of trauma on the body and brain and coping skills, and much more.

Sleep Hygiene Group

• Sleep hygiene workshop once a month. The group involves understanding what can impact sleep, build knowledge and understanding of how to improve sleep and support to implement strategies and tips to enhance sleep.

Managing Anxiety Through Occupation Group (MATO)

• The aim of the group is to learn about anxiety and how to manage it. Learn how things we do impact how we think and feel, practical strategies to manage anxiety and set goals for the future.