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Help from IAPT

Posted By SB123

"Help from IAPT"

About: Hounslow IAPT

(as a service user),

I got CBT due to panic attacks and low self esteem. I worked with Rashmeet Gupta over a few months to really break apart my thought processes, and the cycles my thoughts go in to break the cycle and learn how to identify detrimental thinking patterns. Everything I've learnt has been incredibly in depth, and I now feel very confident in my understanding of how to help myself in the future, and avoid my self esteem becoming low and how to reduce my panic. 

I am so grateful for IAPT for letting me work with Rashmeet to really bring me out of a dark place. She's been incredibly understanding, patient, kind and informative and I couldn't ask for anything more in a therapist. This has been such a beneficial experience, and I've learnt coping mechanisms and realistic practices I will carry with me for life and have really come far since the initial session. I would recommend this service to anyone who suffers with mental health issues, and again am so grateful to have worked with Rashmeet and cannot thank her enough. Thank you!

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Response from Sara Kerry, Patient Experience Coordinator, Central Governance Team, West London NHS Trust 3 years ago
Sara Kerry
Patient Experience Coordinator, Central Governance Team,
West London NHS Trust

Submitted on 30/09/2020 at 15:59
Published on Care Opinion at 15:59

Dear SB123

Thank you for taking the time to feedback on Care Opinion. We will let Rashmeet know how you found your experience with her as I am sure she will value your comments. It is great to read how you have developed such an in depth awareness of your difficulties in particular with the role that thoughts and ‘thinking patterns’ can have on keeping the cycles of distress going.

It is fantastic that you now have the confidence to know how to help yourself having learned coping mechanisms, this is what we hope to achieve by using a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, (CBT) approach. We are very fortunate to have a great team of highly skilled and compassionate clinicians as it is so important that you felt understood and experienced kindness and patience, in addition to having confidence in the approach that was used.

Thank you for taking the time to let others know about your experience using the service, I hope it encourages and inspires others to reach out to us for support!

Best wishes

IAPT

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