Cognitive Analytic Therapy is offered in many NHS services throughout the UK. Read our post here about how to access talking therapies through referral to NHS services.
We offer links below to information and services we are aware of (last updated in February 2024). However we cannot guarantee the links below are up to date and strongly recommend that you contact your local services for more information.
Please note also some Trusts and services do not list CAT in their online information even though it is on offer. So even if your local service is not included in our listing, you can still ask your care provider about whether it is available.
The listing is in alphabetical order, by NHS Trust.
Please note that ACAT is not responsible for and cannot comment on the range, quality, and availability of CAT services offered by different NHS Trusts.
England
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
CAT is offered within Berkshire Healthcare’s Community Mental Health Teams. Read more at https://www.berkshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/our-services/adult-healthcare/community-mental-health-team-cmht/
Cambridge University Hospitals Trust
CUH’s Liaison Psychiatry Service includes a psychological medicine service. This includes cognitive analytic therapy in the range of help on offer to people referred because of physical and mental health difficulties. Read more at https://www.cuh.nhs.uk/our-services/liaison-psychiatry-service/
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
CNWL Trust’s Psychotherapy Services list CAT as one of the therapies on offer at some of their services . Read more at the links below.
CNWL Trust’s Outpatient Eating Disorders Service includes CAT aqs one of the therapies on offer at its Kensington site, St Vincent’s Square. Similarly, CAT is included in its satellite service at Northwick Park Mental Health Unit in Harrow for patients in Brent and Harrow. More details below
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
CAT is offered by a range of services within CNTW.
A specialist CAT therapy service is available through the Centre for Specialist Psychological Therapies in Newcastle. This is for adults who have mental health problems or difficulties in their relationships. Referral can be arranged through “any psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, specialist nurse, Community Treatment Team or your GP.”
- For more details of CAT at CNTW’s Centre for Specialist Psychological Therapies click on this link.
- For CNTW’s Patient Information leaflet on CAT, click on this link.
- We understand CAT is also offered by NTW-employed staff through the Older People’s Clinical Psychology Service at QE Hospital in Gateshead
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Derbyshire Healthcare’s Clinical Psychology service offers CAT through the Older People’s Mental Health Service. They provide services across a number of localities that cover all parts of Derbyshire, including
• Amber Valley
• Bolsover & North East Derbyshire
• Chesterfield
• Derby City
• Derbyshire Dales
• Erewash
• High Peak
• South Derbyshire
Read more about Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s service at https://www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk/services/psychology-services/older-people-psychology
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
CAT is listed as one of the relational psychological therapies offered within the Devon Partnership services – https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/our-services/psychology-and-psychological-therapies/therapies-we-offer
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
The Intensive Psychological Therapies Service (IPTS), based in Poole, offers CAT as one of its specialist therapies for people with enduring emotional and psychological mental health problems. It has won national recognition as a model of good practice.
The IPTS webpage has links to a number of leaflets about CAT. This includes a ‘CAT Poster’ which uses the image of a house to illustrate the process and show how the model integrates a number of other therapeutic approaches. These include Compassion-Focussed Therapy (CFT), skills based on Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Gestalt and dreamwork, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Read more at the IPTS webpage at https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/our-services-hospitals/mental-health/intensive-psychological-therapies-ipts
There is also a leaflet on CAT at this link – https://www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/our-services-hospitals/mental-health/intensive-psychological-therapies-ipts/what-cognitive-analytic-therapy
East London NHS Foundation Trust
ELFT offers CAT in a number of services, including:
- City & Hackney Psychology Service – click here for more information about the City & Hackney Psychology Service
- City & Hackney Psychotherapy Department – click here for more information about the City & Hackney Psychotherapy Department
- Tower Hamlets Psychological Treatment – click here for more information about the Tower Hamlets Psychological Treatment service
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
GMMH offers CAT through a number of different services, including older adults services, the psychological therapies service and the psychotherapy service in Manchester – see information about the latter at this link https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/psychotherapy-service
GMMH’s information page on CAT is at https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/manchester-psychotherapy-cat
In GMMH’s Salford Talking Therapies Service cognitive analytic therapy is offered at Steps 3 and 3+ – see more information at this link https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/salford-talking-therapies
Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Leeds and York Partnership include CAT as one of the therapies offered through their Psychology and Psychotherapy Service. Read more at https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/advice-support/individual-therapies/
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
CAT is offered in a wide range of services within Merseycare. These include:-
- Psychotherapy, and Personality Disorder Hub– click here to read more about this service. You can also download a leaflet about the Merseycare Psychotherapy Services at this link
- Eating Disorders Service – more information at this link
- The UCOPE Service works collaboratively with local universities to help improve access to mental health services for students. This includes a pathway offering a blend of CAT and Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT) as a brief intervention – more information on UCOPE at this link
- Specialist Perinatal Service (as a joint initiative between Cheshire and Wirral Partnership) – more information at this link
- CAT is combined with another therapy, Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT), in a brief therapy offered in response to self harm by by nursing and psychiatry liaison team staff in the Emergency Department of one of Merseycare’s Hospitals. You can read more about the HOPE project by clicking on this link.
- The Beacon – HMP Garth uses CAT as part of its prison-based intervention service located within HMP Garth, for men with a diagnosis of “personality disorder” – more information about The Beacon at this link
Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
CAT is one of the therapies offered through the Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney IAPT service in Norwich. Find out more by contacting the service at https://www.wellbeingnands.co.uk/norfolk/get-support/treatment-and-talking-therapies/
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
CAT is available in a number of Pennine Care services including those in Secondary Care in:
Pennine Care’s Oldham Healthy Minds Service took part in a research study on patient preference for Guided Self Help for Anxiety – comparing cognitive behavioural therapy and cognitive analytic therapy – click here for more information about Oldham Healthy Minds Patient Preference Trial. You can also read more information about the study and its outcomes on our blog page Guided Self Help Using CAT.
A further service hosted by Penninecare, and offering CAT, is the Military Veterans Service. This is a specialist psychological therapies service for British armed forces veterans across Greater Manchester and Lancashire. More details about the Military Veterans Service can be found by clicking here.
CAT is also offered in Stansfield Place, a rehabilitation service for men with severe mental illness – more information at this link.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
CAT is offered in a number of services within Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, including through community mental health teams – tmore information on their website at https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/specialist-psychological-interventions/adult-psychology-and-psychological-therapies/types-of-therapy-we-offer/
South London and Maudsley
Cognitive analytic therapy is widely available within the South London and Maudsley’s (SLaM) services. See links below for more details.
- Croydon Integrated Psychological Therapy Service (CITPS) – https://slam.nhs.uk/search/service/croydon-integrated-psychological-therapy-service-cipts-61
- Lambeth Secondary Care Psychological Therapy Team – https://slam.nhs.uk/search/service/lambeth-secondary-care-psychological-therapies-scpt-159
- Southwark Integrated Psychological Therapy Team – https://slam.nhs.uk/search/service/integrated-psychological-therapy-team-southwark-160
- SLaM Eating Disorders Outpatient Service – https://slam.nhs.uk/search/service/eating-disorders-outpatient-service-maudsley-hospital-124
South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Services for people with Complex Needs. CAT is mention as being on offer through both the Wandsworth Complex Needs Team and the Kingston Complex Needs Pathway.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Through its i-talk service, this NHS Trust offers CAT within its IAPT services. More details at https://www.italk.org.uk/how-we-help/specialist-therapies/
Sussex Community NHS Trust
Diabetes Care For You is an integrated service for people living with diabetes in East Sussex. The service includes psychology and psychotherapy alongside specialist nursing,medicine, dietetics, and podiatry. The psychology and psychotherapy component is led by a CAT psychotherapist, Jackie Fosbury. Diabetes Care For You has been recognised as a best practice example in Diabetes UK’s 2019 report ‘Too Often Missing: Making emotional and psychological care routine in diabetes care’ – read a copy of the report by clicking on this link.
You can read an information leaflet about Diabetes Care For You by clicking on this link.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Partnership has produced a video about cognitive analytic therapy which is published on YouTube. You can watch it at this link.
Amongst a range of other services, the Sussex Eating Disorders Service (SEDS) offers CAT – more information at https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/our-services/specialist-services/sussex-eating-disorder-service?open=14295#single-accordion-14295
Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Both CAT therapy and Cognitive Analytic Consultancy to teams and services are widely available throughout TEWV services. If you would like to be referred for CAT within TEWV, please discuss this with your care coordinator, lead professional or doctor.
For more information about CAT at TEWV, click on this link.
Northern Ireland
awaiting further information
Scotland
We are aware that CAT is offered in several Scottish Health Trusts, including:
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
awaiting further information
NHS Highland
CAT is offered in several locations in NHS Highland including Oban, Inverness and Lochgilphead. For more specific enquiries, you can contact NHS Highland through their webste at this link.
NHS Lanarkshire
awaiting further information
NHS Lothian
awaiting further information
Wales
awaiting further information
If you would like your NHS Trust or service to be added to this listing, or if you have updates, please contact us with as much information as possible.
Last updated February 2024
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