Occupational and Arts Therapy (CPOT)

Service details

Who we are

This multi-skilled team provide recovery therapy for adult inpatients and day patients. The service offers assessment and specialist interventions like; life skills, stress management, art therapy, drama, movement therapy, work skills and psychotherapy so clients with significant psychological difficulties are enable to better cope with everyday life in the community, or can prepare for returning home from an inpatient stay.


What we do

Therapy can be provided in the hospital setting or in a suitable community location. Therapy can be individual or with a group depending on need and agreed programme of care. 


Art therapy

Arts therapies use the arts (music, art, dance or drama) in a therapeutic environment with a trained therapist. The therapists help you express yourself by creating something – a piece of music, a painting or a play.

This can help you express your feelings, often without using words.

Arts therapies may be helpful for mental health problems, whatever your diagnosis. You may be offered art therapy as your main form of treatment, or as well as other treatments like medication or talking therapies.

Arts therapies can be particularly helpful if:

  • you feel distanced from your feelings
  • you find it too upsetting to talk about painful experiences, and because of this find it difficult to benefit from talking therapies like counselling or psychotherapy.

Occupational therapy

An occupational therapist can identify strengths and difficulties you may have in everyday life, such as dressing or getting to the shops, and help you work out practical solutions.

An occupational therapists work with you to identify goals that can help you maintain, regain or improve your independence by using different techniques, changing your environment and using new equipment.

Occupational therapy is used when an individual is having difficulty with everyday tasks. This could be because of a:

  • medical condition – for example, rheumatoid arthritis
  • learning disability
  • mental health condition – for example, bipolar disorder

SEND Local Offer

Local Offer Age Bands
Young Adults 18 - 25
SEN Provision Type
  • Specialist

Who to contact

Telephone
020 8510 8630 020 8510 8630 020 8510 8635 020 8510 8635
Website
www.elft.nhs.uk/Occupational_Arts_Therapy/mental-health_City-and-Hackney
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Where to go

Address
City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health
Homerton Row
Hackney
London
Postcode

E9 6SR

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Venue Notes

Buses: 26, 30, 236, 242, 276, 308, 394, 425, 488, W15

Train: Homerton

Parking: Free limited parking

Other details

Referral required?

Yes

Referral Details

Referrals are accepted by letter from GPs, psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals.

Self referrals are also accepted where the team is given consent to inform the clients GP.

Following referral, clients have an assessment interview with a member of the team and a programme of care is worked out.

What to do if you have a complaint

Complaints can be made to a clinician or manager in the service or alternatively through the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS).

The service can be contacted on 020 8510 7315 or homerton1.pals@nhs.net

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