Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are often known as CAMHS. You might be asked by your GP, School or other professional if you would like help and support, or you may want to refer yourself. CAMHS are here to help you with lots of different emotional and psychological difficulties. We have a range of professionals who work in CAMHS, such as Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Doctors (known as Psychiatrists), Art Therapists, Nurses and Youth Workers. We also have Family Therapists who may offer some sessions with you and your family, to help you all understand each others experiences in a more helpful way.
When you are first referred to CAMHS, the team will offer you an assessment where you get the chance to discuss what things are bothering you and how CAMHS might be able to help. There will then be a discussion with you, and your parents if you want them to be involved, and with the team, to see how CAMHS may be able to help you. It may be that CAMHS then offer you some further appointments to work through some of the difficulties you might be having. Or, It may be that a different service would be better suited to helping you; if this is the case, CAMHS will provide you with this information and make any other referrals with your agreement.
Cross Street Clinic
Cross Street
Burton on Trent
DE14 1EG
Tel: 01283 505820
A Tour of CAMHS, Cross Street Clinic
This video was created by young people, for young people, following feedback from our Youth Participation Forum. They felt that a brief tour of Cross Street Clinic (Burton Upon Trent) would be helpful for others, to reduce worries when attending their first CAMHS appointment. Young people from the Youth Participation Forum were involved throughout the whole video production.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are often known as CAMHS. You might be asked by your GP, School or other professional if you would like help and support, or you may want to refer yourself. CAMHS are here to help you with lots of different emotional and psychological difficulties. We have a range of professionals who work in CAMHS, such as Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Doctors (known as Psychiatrists), Art Therapists, Nurses and Youth Workers. We also have Family Therapists who may offer some sessions with you and your family, to help you all understand each others experiences in a more helpful way.
When you are first referred to CAMHS, the team will offer you an assessment where you get the chance to discuss what things are bothering you and how CAMHS might be able to help. There will then be a discussion with you, and your parents if you want them to be involved, and with the team, to see how CAMHS may be able to help you. It may be that CAMHS then offer you some further appointments to work through some of the difficulties you might be having. Or, It may be that a different service would be better suited to helping you; if this is the case, CAMHS will provide you with this information and make any other referrals with your agreement.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are often known as CAMHS. You might be asked by your GP, School or other professional if you would like help and support, or you may want to refer yourself. CAMHS are here to help you with lots of different emotional and psychological difficulties. We have a range of professionals who work in CAMHS, such as Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Doctors (known as Psychiatrists), Art Therapists, Nurses and Youth Workers. We also have Family Therapists who may offer some sessions with you and your family, to help you all understand each others experiences in a more helpful way.
When you are first referred to CAMHS, the team will offer you an assessment where you get the chance to discuss what things are bothering you and how CAMHS might be able to help. There will then be a discussion with you, and your parents if you want them to be involved, and with the team, to see how CAMHS may be able to help you. It may be that CAMHS then offer you some further appointments to work through some of the difficulties you might be having. Or, It may be that a different service would be better suited to helping you; if this is the case, CAMHS will provide you with this information and make any other referrals with your agreement.
Holly Lodge
St. Michaels Court
Trent Valley Road
Lichfield
WS13 6EF
Tel: 01543 442012
Finding the Holly Lodge entrance
Here is a short video showing how to access the clinic
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services are often known as CAMHS. You might be asked by your GP, School or other professional if you would like help and support, or you may want to refer yourself. CAMHS are here to help you with lots of different emotional and psychological difficulties. We have a range of professionals who work in CAMHS, such as Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Doctors (known as Psychiatrists), Art Therapists, Nurses and Youth Workers. We also have Family Therapists who may offer some sessions with you and your family, to help you all understand each others experiences in a more helpful way.
When you are first referred to CAMHS, the team will offer you an assessment where you get the chance to discuss what things are bothering you and how CAMHS might be able to help. There will then be a discussion with you, and your parents if you want them to be involved, and with the team, to see how CAMHS may be able to help you. It may be that CAMHS then offer you some further appointments to work through some of the difficulties you might be having. Or, It may be that a different service would be better suited to helping you; if this is the case, CAMHS will provide you with this information and make any other referrals with your agreement.
CAMHS West
The Bridge
St. George’s Parkway
Stafford
ST16 3NE
CAMHS Tamworth is a children’s NHS mental health service working in the heart of the community of Tamworth. Together with their families and other local services, we are here to support children and young people with their mental health and emotional wellbeing up to the age of 18.
As a team, we have a range of professionals from different backgrounds such as:
- Doctors
- Mental Health Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapists
- Family Therapists
- Psychotherapists
- Youth Workers
- Psychologists
Together, we all work hard to understand your physical, mental and emotional needs so that we can offer the right therapeutic services at the right time for you.
If you would like to make a referral to our service you can access our self-referral page. If you have any questions regarding a current referral you can contact us on the number below.
Argyle Street Clinic
Argyle Street
Glascote
Tamworth
B77 3EW
Tel: 01827 51183
Finding the Argyle Street Clinic entrance
Here is a short video showing how to access the clinic
The CAMHS Early Years’ Service helps young children and their families when a child is experiencing emotional or behavioural problems. We tend to get involved when other forms of support are not enough on their own, or when the problem is particularly difficult.
We also offer support when difficulties are being experienced with the relationship between a parent and child.
We work with young children who aren’t old enough to be at school full time yet. If we start seeing you before your child begins at school we may be able to carry on supporting you once your child goes to school. However, this will depend upon the nature of the support required.
CAMHS Early Years’ Service
The Bridge
St George’s Parkway
Off Crooked Bridge Road
Stafford
ST16 3NE
Tel: 01785 221665
The CAMHS Eating Disorders service based within South Staffordshire is a specialist community multi-disciplinary Eating Disorders service providing assessment and evidence based treatment for children and adolescents aged 8-18 years with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The service accepts referrals for young people registered with a South Staffordshire GP.
The team is multi-disciplinary and includes professions such as medical, nursing, dietetic, art psychotherapy and family therapy.
Our working hours are Monday toFriday 9am-5pm. A duty worker is available within these times.
Tel: 0300 123 0997
The Children’s Learning Disability Team is an NHS service that provide specialist mental health support to children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities up to the age of 18.
We are a multidisciplinary team, which means that we have professionals of different backgrounds working together, and this allows us to offer a range of therapeutic interventions.
Our service adopts the principles of Positive Behaviour Support to make sure the care we provide is based on inclusion, choice, participation and equal opportunity. We work closely with other local agencies and are able to visit children in their home, school and other local provisions.
We receive referrals from a wide variety of sources such as GPs, schools, social workers and families.
The team covers Tamworth, Lichfield, Burton, Uttoxetter, Stafford, Stone, Cannock and Rugeley, Codsall, Perton and Wombourne.
Children’s Learning Disability Team
Block 6,
St. Michael’s Court,
Trent Valley Road,
Lichfield,
WS13 6EF
0300 790 7000 ext 7021512
childrensldteam@mpft.nhs.uk
We are the specialist Autism service for South Staffordshire. We are here to assess and offer support to you and your family. If you are aged between 0-19 years old (up to 25 if you have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)) and have a diagnosis or a working diagnosis of an Autistic Specturm Condition (ASC), then you and your family can access help and support through us. You can find out more about us from Children and Young People's Autism Service or you can ask your parents to call our duty line on 0300 303 0691 (9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday) and we can try to help you with any problems and difficulties you might have related to your autism.
Having autism means that your brain works a bit differently to most other people. Every person with ASC is different but some things people with ASC may find difficult are:
- social communication
- knowing what to talk about
- understanding other people
- making sense of facial expression and tone of voice
- social interaction
- knowing how close to stand to someone
- knowing when to talk
- understanding jokes
- making friends
- social prediction / rigidity of thought
- needing routines
- not liking changes
- not knowing what will happen next
There are also some people with ASC who have sensory differences:
- not liking loud noises or bright lights
- only wearing certain clothes
- not being able to sit still
We have helped lots of young people with these things.
How can we help?
Young people can come to us for help and support with lots of different things:
- anxiety or worries
- low mood
- anger
- behaviour that can cause them difficulties with others
- sleep
- speech
- language and communication difficulties
- low self esteem (not feeling good about themselves)
- or just to understand their autism a little better
We can support parents over the phone with advice calls or you can come to one of our workshops to help understand what your autism means for you.
We also make sure that we look at the strengths that having an autism brain can give you! Having ASC can make some things harder but it can also make some things easier, like knowing lots about a special topic or having a really good memory! Don’t worry if you don’t like groups, you don’t have to talk if you don’t want to, but it can sometimes be nice to meet other people who understand what it is like to be you.
For some people, we may offer 1-to-1 sessions with a clinician if this is needed.
We have lots of different people who work within our service such as Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Nurses. This means that we can help you with a lot of different things.
We are all really friendly and would like to hear from you if there is anything you would like some help or support with. Remember: there is no such thing as a 'silly worry' or question, so get in touch. We are here for you and look forward to hearing from you!
We are a community mental health team based in CAMHS, whose primary task is to provide home based interventions and treatment as an alternative to hospital admission. We work in partnership with children, young people, families and carers to assess, plan and implement therapeutic interventions and care to promote recovery in their community.
Our primary task is to provide intensive care and support as an alternative for accessing intervention for young people who would otherwise require admission to inpatient beds. For those young people who do require a period of inpatient care, we remain as their community contact and to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
We cover the whole of South Staffordshire and work alongside CAMHS clinicians in the different areas, Stafford, Cannock, Tamworth, Lichfield, Burton and the Seisdon peninsular.
Holly Batchelor / Ann Cox (Team Leaders)
First Floor, Block 6
St Michael’s Court
Trent Valley Road
Lichfield
WS13 6EF
Tel: 01543 441441
The Paediatric Psychology Service provides specialist support to children, young people, their families, and wider medical teams to help navigate the emotional challenges that can arise from living with a chronic physical health condition. The service is provided to children with a GP in the West of the county (Stafford and Surrounds, Cannock, and Seisdon).
We see children and young people with a variety of physical health problems or life limiting conditions. This includes adjusting to a new diagnosis, coping with treatments or invasive procedures, managing pain or fatigue or dealing with the family impact of physical health. The child or young person would usually be under the care of a secondary care service and it is helpful for referrals to come directly from the involved medical team where possible.
The Team are based at The Bridge, Stafford:
- Dr Clair May, Senior Clinical Psychologist (Wednesday to Friday)
- Rona Borland, Nurse Specialist (Thursday & Friday)
- with administrative support from Lisa Goodsell
All referrals and referral enquires should be made directly to the team inbox paediatricpsychology@mpft.nhs.uk
We are always happy to discuss enquiries about a referral.
All of the team work part-time and so we will respond as soon as we are able.
CAMHS West
The Bridge
St. George’s Parkway
Stafford
ST16 3NE
Tel: 01785 221 665