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24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from us to you, however that looks for you we hope you have a calm and peaceful holiday and we’ll see you on the other side.

13/11/2024

We are SO excited to be working with the wonderful to help bring subsidised evidence-based psychological therapy to students.
All of our directors trained and completed their clinical doctorate at Edinburgh and we are excited to be involved with the uni and student population again.
We’re really passionate about increasing access to psychological therapies and we hope this is another small way our company can further contribute to doing this.

15/05/2024

It’s and we want people to speak up, share and seek the help they need!
Check in on yourselves and the people around you.
It’s not always easy to ask for help, but help is out there.
If you think you or someone@you love might need support or advice, there are many options.
Contact us at hello@clinicalpsychologycollective.co.uk to arrange a free 15 minute no obligation chat and see if we are the team to support you.
For reliable advice and to improve your knowledge and understanding look at and

☎️ NHS 111 are available 24/7
📞 on 116 123 or online for 24/7 free support
If you or someone you love seem to be immediate danger or unable to keep yourself or someone else safe,
🚑 Call 999
🏥 Go to your nearest A&E

21/02/2023

Rumination can be a bit like a thought tornado spiralling us into negative thoughts, assumptions and predictions and can generate emotional distress 🌪🤯

Rumination is a cognitive process whereby we overthink the past and future and focus our attention on negative content. It is very common and all of us will engage in this from time to time, particularly when we are under stress. Rumination is often a co-occurring symptom of anxiety and depression.

We may hold the belief that by ruminating, we are going to solve a problem, gain insight or better prepare ourselves for the worst case scenario. However, rumination keeps us stuck, keeps us focussed on things out-with our control and generates negative repetitive thought cycles. It can also lead us to make negative, unhelpful and unrealistic predictions.

Unhelpful rumination often involves asking ‘why’ questions such as “why did this happen to me?” This type of questioning can lead us to focus more on the problem, the causes and the worst case. It can be helpful to replace ‘why’ questions with ‘how’ and ‘what’ questions. For example, “how can I get myself out of this situation?” and “what can I learn from this?” and “what can I do to make this better?” This can allow us to process events and problems from a more helpful stance of problem solving. We can also take back our control and engage in a more productive reflective way of thinking.

24/12/2022

We hope you all have wonderful Christmases.
But we wanted to remind you to take social media with a pinch of salt, and try not to slip into those unhelpful thinking habits over the coming days.
For example, often people slip into “compare and despair” or “making mountains out of molehills” and the very common “black and white thinking”.
Seeing social media all glossy and “perfect” can perpetuate this.
First of all it’s not bad, stupid or wrong to have negative thoughts or these kinds of thinking styles, they’re common to all of us, even more so when we are stressed, anxious or depressed.
Second, remember that people only show a glossy glimpse of their lives through social media platforms often. It’s not reality, it’s usually a heavily filtered, carefully deflected and edited snapshot.
Sending love and best wishes to everyone .
CPC x

10/10/2022

We’ve spent today reflecting on how we can improve and look after our own mental health as well as the people we work with and live with.
For us this meant spending a bit of time away form social media and reconnecting with ourselves and our business.
Social media is great but as well as raising awareness it can also raise anxiety giving pekl a false sense of what it means to practice “good mental health” and concepts like “self care”. Looking after yourself should add to your stress and burden, and it doesn’t have to look the same for everyone.
Do what helps you
Talk to others, friends &/or professionals
Ask for help and offer it
Ask how your friends and colleagues are, and mean it, then ask again
We’re here for you, we’d love to hear from you.
www.clinicalpsychologycollective.co.uk

15/07/2022

Our minds are a complex construct, a bit like a maze. Understanding our minds can feel a bit like trying to navigate 🧭 our way through a maze. We have memories and experiences along the way, some of which might lead us in a positive direction, whilst others might lead us to feel stuck, lost, confused and hopeless. We all need a little guidance and support to find our way through the journey that is life.

Our CPC psychologists can support you through your journey, help you to navigate your way through different challenges and support you to better understand your mental health.

01/07/2022

Happy first weekend in July form all of us at the
What are your plans to boost your mood this weekend? Some suggestions below:
-connect with a friend (talk/ go for a walk or coffee)
- get outside and into nature
- move your body (try an exercise class in person or online or go for a walk)
- watch a favourite childhood movie
-play a board game with friends
- practice a short mindfulness exercise
- enjoy time with your pet, or borrow a friends?!
-treat yourself to a massage or beauty treatment (guys you can do this too, or try a fancy hot towel shave)
-listen to your old favourite classic songs
- buy yourself a pot plant for the home, greenery inside can boost our moods just like being outside
- make time for sleep, but try and keep to your normal routeine as much as possible
- eat well, take time to try a new recipe
- keep hydrated
- say no if you want to, you don’t have to be rushed off your feet
-have an extra long shower or bath with nice smelling productsshare other ideas with us, we’d love to hear form you

15/06/2022

One of our favourite DBT skills is called 'TIPP'.
TIPP stands for
– Temperature
–Intense Exercise
–Paced breathing and
– Paired muscle relaxation.
This is a super easy skill to use in times of crisis or high emotional states like when you feel overwhelmed and your emotions are going to consume you.
In order to calm down quickly, try holding your breath and putting your face in a bowl of cold water or holding a cold pack on your eyes and cheeks for at least 30 seconds. This will cue your mammalian diving reflex which is a natural reflex that occurs in all mammals and is triggered in humans when our faces are submerged in cold water.
The reflex causes our body chemistry to change—heart rate drops down immediately and the parasympathetic nervous system is activated to prompt a relaxation response.

Try to engage in intensive exercise, even if it’s only for a short amount of time. Exercising intensely will help your body get rid of negative energy that can sometimes be stored from strong emotions.
Another way to cue your parasympathetic nervous system is to breathe deeply into your stomach. Try to slow down the pace of your inhales and exhales (on average, five to six breaths per minute).
It helps if you try to breathe out more slowly than you breathe in.

It can help if you add muscle relaxation to paced breathing. While breathing deeply and slowly, deeply tense each of your body muscles one by one. Notice this tension and then breathe out and let go of the tension by completely relaxing your muscles. Pay attention to the difference in your body as you tense and let go of each muscle group.

01/06/2022

We have illustrated a technique from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy called ‘Stop’ 🛑✋

Distress tolerance is about our ability to manage emotional distress. This skill can help us to manage a triggering incident without making it worse or reacting on our fight/flight responses.

28/05/2022

This weekend CPC are hoping you all get the chance to get outside, we’ll try to too! Spending time in nature has been found to help with mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. For example, research into ecotherapy (a type of formal treatment which involves doing activities outside in nature) has shown it can help with mild to moderate depression.
Nature also provides us with plenty of inspiration for grounding (e.g using our senses to practice mindfulness and being in the present moment- focusing on sounds, smells, what we can see, what we can hear and what we can taste).
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend. If you can get outside and spend some time in the great outdoors! 🌿👍🏻

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Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 1:30pm

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