Every year millions of people make New Year’s resolutions, why not start off this year by putting your mental wellbeing at the top of the list.

The Norfolk Wellbeing Service is running free taster workshops in the January, to encourage people to find out how to manage and prevent common mental health issues such as stress, anxiety and depression.

Throughout January these workshops will be run at venues in Norwich, Dereham and Cromer. Those attending will not need to speak about their issues during the workshop. It will simply be an opportunity to sit back and hear about some helpful techniques to cope with these symptoms.

You don’t have to be stressed, anxious or depressed to benefit from these workshops. It can help you to find out how best to prevent or manage these thoughts or feelings and stop them from building up in future.

The Wellbeing Service in Norfolk and Waveney provides a range of free psychological interventions including one-to-one sessions, telephone based treatments, talking therapies, self-help techniques, counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy to people who are low in mood or experiencing anxiety.

Nesta Reeve, Clinical Lead for the Wellbeing Service who delivers some of the taster sessions, said: “This sessions offer an opportunity for people to come along, either on their own or with a friend or family member, to find out about the Wellbeing Service and see what it has to offer that might help them.

“At the end of the session people can choose from the range of help available and directly book onto further workshops on the day, or they can choose to access one of our standard assessment sessions.

“The aim is to put people in the driving seat to access the help they want at a time that suits them.’

To book a place on one of these workshops please either call 0300 123 1503, or email us on [email protected].

For more information about the Wellbeing Service visit: www.readytochange.org.uk.

You can follow the Wellbeing Service on Twitter @NHSWellbeing or find us on Facebook facebook.com/NHSWellbeing

Free workshops

City College, Ipswich Road, Norwich, NR2 2LJ 
Tuesday 7 January, 6pm-8pm 
Thursday 9 January, 6pm-8pm

The Curve, The Forum, Norwich, NR2 ITF 
Tuesday 7 January, 1.30pm-3.30pm

Springwell Centre, Church St, Dereham, NR19 1DN 
Wednesday 8 January, 6pm-8pm

Merchants Place, 16 Church St, Cromer, NR27 9GW 
Monday 6 January, 6pm-8pm  

Notes

The Wellbeing Service in Norfolk and Waveney was commissioned in April 2011 and is part of a series of services nationally, known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), to ensure people with common mental health problems and are able to access these services quickly and efficiently.

The Norfolk Wellbeing Service is a partnership of NHS and voluntary organisations in Norfolk and Waveney, including Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Broadland Meridian, MAP charity for young people and mental health charity MIND.

The service is free, and open to anyone aged 16 years and over in Norfolk and Waveney. People are able to self-refer to the Wellbeing Service or through their GP.