Secondary groups

Delivery: Face-to-Face
Duration: 8 Sessions

Mood Booster is designed for young people experiencing low mood. The programme helps participants understand how low mood can affect thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and daily activities. Through behavioural activation techniques, young people learn how increasing positive and meaningful activities can improve wellbeing. The course also explores thinking patterns, common thinking traps, and practical problem-solving skills to support recovery and resilience.

Delivery: Face-to-Face
Duration: 5 Sessions

Understanding Worry supports young people who experience persistent worries that are beginning to impact daily life, school attendance, friendships, or family relationships. Based on CBT principles, the programme helps participants understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, physical symptoms, and behaviours. Young people learn practical techniques to identify, manage, and reduce worries while building confidence in their ability to cope.

Delivery: Face-to-Face
Duration: 7 Sessions

This group is aimed at young people whose anxiety is affecting their everyday experiences, including school, social situations, and home life. Participants explore how anxiety develops and is maintained, learn to recognise physical signs of anxiety, and develop practical coping strategies. The programme includes behavioural experiments that help young people gradually build confidence and strengthen their belief in their ability to manage difficult situations successfully.

Delivery: School-Based Programme
Duration: 7 Weeks

Peer Mentoring creates supportive mentor and mentee relationships within school settings. Older students are recruited, interviewed, and trained by MHST clinicians to provide structured support to younger pupils. Mentors learn valuable listening, communication, boundary-setting, and safeguarding skills, while mentees receive support with areas such as confidence, self-esteem, friendships, and social development.

The programme benefits both mentors and mentees, with previous evaluations demonstrating improvements in wellbeing, confidence, communication skills, leadership, and resilience. Due to the unique nature of this programme, schools should speak directly with their MHST Link Worker regarding implementation.  

Delivery: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
Duration: 6 Weekly Sessions

This supportive course is designed for parents and carers of neurodivergent children and young people who experience anxiety. Participants gain a greater understanding of neurodiversity, communication, emotions, sensory processing, wellbeing, and anxiety management strategies. No formal diagnosis is required to attend.

The programme provides practical, evidence-based approaches that parents can use at home while also helping them better understand their child's experiences and needs. Between-session reading and home practice activities help embed learning and encourage positive change.

Delivery: Virtual (Microsoft Teams)
Duration: 6 Weekly Sessions

Parent Adolescent Relational Training (PART) supports parents and carers of young people aged 11 and above who may be experiencing relationship difficulties, conflict, or reduced connection within the family. Drawing on attachment theory, Non-Violent Resistance approaches, and CBT principles, the programme helps parents develop a deeper understanding of adolescent development and strengthen relationships with their teenager.

Parents learn practical strategies to reduce conflict, repair relationship ruptures, improve communication, and build confidence in their ability to support their child through challenges. The course also creates opportunities for connection and support from other parents experiencing similar situations.