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About: Altnagelvin Area Hospital / Breast services Western Health & Social Care Trust / Physical Health Psychology Service Community

(as a service user),

This service, at Agnes Jones House, was of huge benefit to me, having been referred by my OT, post bilateral mastectomy.

After my initial appointment with Dr Ania, I was then invited to a group session course run over 4 weeks.  This small group of 6, all with different experiences of cancer treatments, were perfectly put together by the service.  Everyone felt very much at ease talking about their experiences without judgment and in confidence. 

Dr Tracey particularly gave me many skills to call upon when I feel my thoughts or emotions are in need of help.  She did this by explaining in depth how these coping mechanisms can be useful.  

The group sessions were facilitated by both Dr Tracey and Dr Ania, and they both made everything on the session day stress free.

My follow up appointments were a great opportunity to round up everything we had covered in the group course.  And clarify if any further appointments were needed.

Thank you to the team.!

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Response from Mary Dooher, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead, Clinical Health Psychology Service, Western Health and Social Care Trust 5 months ago
Mary Dooher
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead, Clinical Health Psychology Service,
Western Health and Social Care Trust

I am Clinical Lead for Clinical Health Psychology services in the Western Trust.

Submitted on 28/11/2024 at 12:15
Published on Care Opinion at 12:48


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HI Claire

Thank you so much for taking the time to let us know about your experience attending the Clinical Health Psychology service. It is great to hear that both your individual and group contact was of benefit to you and that you came away with lots of helpful techniques and strategies which should be helpful to you both now and into the future. Please keep practising these! Your kind reflections on how you benefitted from attending the group programme will also help inform and reassure anyone considering attending a future group - thank you for that. On behalf of the service, I wish you well for the future.

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