Autumn 2019 Magazine
Welcome to Community Living Well
About us
Community Living Well is a new service for people aged 16 and over who need support with their mental health and wellbeing.
It’s for people registered with a GP in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, or the Queen’s Park and Paddington areas of Westminster.
Community Living Well offers a different kind of mental health support. It makes it easy for you, and anyone who cares for you, to access a wide range of clinical and wellbeing services.
The services on offer include talking therapies, support groups, help with employment and support with debt, housing and benefits issues.
How we can help
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Talking Therapy
Talking therapy or counselling that can help you if you are feeling stressed, worried, anxious or low in mood
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Mother Tongue Counselling
One-to-one counselling in Arabic and Farsi
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Primary Care Liaison Team
Specialist nurse-led support and access to Primary Care Psychiatry
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Navigators
Advice and guidance on a range of issues including benefits, debt, housing and signposting to specialist support services
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Peer Support
Groups, social events and activities bringing people together to support and learn from each other
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Employment
Advice and guidance on looking for work, staying in work, and improving employability skills
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Helpful Information
Resources to help you on your recovery journey
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Self Care
Support and activities that help you to take care of your own mental, emotional and physical wellbeing
What people say about us
Coming out to the Peer Support meet-ups reduces my isolation
Being with others who have a shared experience of depression is helpful because people there have lower expectations of me, they are less judgemental than others and we help each other, by sharing our experiences of depression and anxiety. The groups don’t make demands of me and that helps when I’m depressed – I have problems with personal obligation. Coming out to the meet-ups reduces my isolation and keeps me active. By helping others, I feel like I am helping myself.
Having someone who could listen to me was very beneficial
After having therapy with Community Living Well I feel a lot better in myself, much more settled and comfortable. Getting things off my chest and having someone who would listen to me was very beneficial as I felt like I had been living in my own head. I was aware of techniques such as writing things down and talking to people I trusted but these weren’t actions that I had ever implemented in the past.