Mental health

Mental health support with Cwm Taf Morgannwg MIND

Cwm Taf Morgannwg MIND provide mental health information, advice and support.

Their services are designed to support better mental health and wellbeing, offering help with everything from day-to-day worries to ongoing challenges.

You can access support it in a variety of ways depending on your needs and what best suits you.

This includes self-directed support, talking therapies, help at home, befriending, mindfulness, stress management, debt and benefits advice, general money guidance, and advocacy.

Many of these services are available through a single referral point on their website, known as The Hub.

Get mental health support and information on their website here.

Staying Well at Work

The Staying Well at Work project is led by Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, is part funded by the European Social Fund through the Welsh Government, and aims to provide support to small businesses and their employees.

The support is offered at no cost, and focused on a bespoke range of products to improve employee health and wellbeing and helps  businesses to support employees with disabilities/work limiting health conditions.

Services include; coaching, counselling, physiotherapy, occupational health advice, health surveillance checks, specialist business and people support.

Telephone: 01443 827317
Email: stayingwellatwork@rctcbc.gov.uk
Website: https://www.rctcbc.gov.uk/EN/GetInvolved/StayingWellAtWork/StayingWellAtWork.aspx

Valleys Steps

​​Free Mindfulness and Stress Control Courses
Valleys Steps is an organisation that works in partnership with Cwm Taf UHB to teach people ways of boosting their well-being and managing and reducing stress, anxiety and low mood. We do this by providing free of charge, open access stress control and mindfulness courses across Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Mindfulness
Valleys Steps offer a 6-week Mindfulness for Everyday course. Mindfulness is about much more than meditation, mindfulness is a way of being that can be developed. It can help us relate differently to our experience and improve anxiety, depression and other emotional and physical health concerns. It can increase our wellbeing through deepening our appreciation of our lives. Valleys Steps Mindfulness for Everyday course is designed to be an introduction to the practice.

Stress Control
Stress Control is a 6 week course that teaches skills that can be used to help manage stress. It is based on a therapy called CBT (Cognitive behavioural therapy) and can be useful for people who want to learn more about issues such as low mood, anxiety, low self-confidence and other stress related problems. Over the 6 weeks the course helps us understand how stress can affect the way we feel physically, the way we think and what we do and shows us how we can make changes so as to feel better.

Both courses are run on an open access basis. There is no need to book and everyone is welcome. There is no group discussion in the courses, we’ll do the talking.
Courses are run in community venues across Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil. Venues include, Pontypridd Museum, St Dyfrigs Church Hall, Treforest, Talbot Green Community Centre and Caerlan Hall, Llantrisant. Both courses run weekly for 6 weeks. Its best if you attend all 6 sessions. See the website www.valleyssteps.org or give us a call on 01443 803048 for further details.

Families 2gether 4 Wellbeing
A 6 week family focused course promoting mental and emotional wellbeing for parents and young people. This is a free course designed for people aged 14-18 accompanied by a parent or carer. The course is available to those living in the Taff Ely areas of RCT or registered with a Taff Ely GP Practice. The course is taught online in a group of up to 10 young people and 10 parents/carers. There are 6 weekly sessions each lasting 60 minutes. To express an interest in the course please contact Valleys Steps via email info@valleyssteps.org call 01443 803048 or click here.