Note: some services can only be accessed through a clinician. You can request a referral form from your clinician.
Lung Conditions - SilverCloud
SilverCloud Online Therapy - Access Therapies Fife NHS
An online programme that will help teach you techniques to reduce symptoms of low mood, anxiety and stress.
Referrals need to be made through a clinician. You can request a referral from your clinician.
Positive Coping with Health Conditions
Tools - Positive Coping with Health Conditions - Vancouver Psych Safety Consulting Inc.
Is a self help guide, found in the ‘How can I access self-help?’ section, under ‘Self-help Resources’. It is a guide for coping with the emotional impact of physical health conditions.
Sleepio
Booking Sleepio and Daylight programmes - Access Therapies Fife NHS
Sleepio is a evidence-based digital therapy for sleep difficulties and Daylight which is an interactive and evidence based online programme for reducing anxiety, using exercises to help learn to relax, change perspective on anxious thoughts and address fears.
Brief Individual Support
The Psychological Enhanced Engagement Team provides brief interventions for difficulties, such as low mood, anxiety, panic, worry, sleep difficulties or stress with the support of a NHS trained Professional
Adult Individual Intervention (formerly known as Guided Self Help) - brief interventions for people with psychological difficulties - Access Therapies Fife NHS
IESO Typed Therapy
IESO Typed Therapy - Access Therapies Fife NHS
Ieso delivers free online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to those with common mental health conditions like anxiety and depression through a typed conversation with an accredited clinician.
Clinical referral is required.
Mood Cafe
Mood Cafe | Managing Physical Health Problems
Provides information and resources to help improve mental health. Includes booklet for those with physical health conditions:
Adult Groups
Adult Courses - Access Therapies Fife NHS
Back on Track
Psychology Enhanced Engagement Team (PEET), formerly known as the Guided Self-Help Service (GSHS) - Access Therapies Fife NHSBack on Track is a 6 week course which teaches ways to improve mood and manage symptoms of depression. The course provides a framework for better understanding and managing low mood. This is a lecture style course delivered by our team through presentations.
Step on Stress
Step on Stress - provides strategies for reducing stress, anxiety and panic and boosting self-esteem - Access Therapies Fife NHSStep on Stress is an educational course that teaches people how to manage stress and anxiety. The course runs for three weekly sessions of one and a half hours each. It aims to help people to build a better understanding of stress and deal with it using a variety of practical tools.
Assertiveness Workshop
Assertiveness Classes - Learn how to be assertive - Access Therapies Fife NHS
This one-off class provides you with the opportunity to learn what it means to be assertive and ways to become more assertive in your daily life.
Sleep Well
Sleep Well - knowledge and strategies to help reduce sleep problems - Access Therapies Fife NHS
Sleep Well is a 2 hour course that provides you with knowledge and strategies to help reduce sleep problems and improve your sleep quality.
Other useful services and resouces
Breathe Easy Peer Support Group
Breathe Easy is affiliated to Asthma+LungUK. The Breathe Easy groups offer support, information and social activities to people living with lung conditions. There are groups in Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, St Andrews, Levenmouth as well as a new group in Glenrothes so there should be one local to you.
Visit them on Facebook - BreatheEasyFifeFacebook
For more information and additional support visit the Asthma+LungUK website. Contact: Agnes Whyte, Chairperson, Tel: 01333 426544 breatheeasyfife@yahoo.com
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland
Chest Information & Support - Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland has an advice line and useful information for those with a respiratory condition. They also offer ‘kindness calls’ where a trained volunteer can call and talk to individuals to provide a space to chat and gain support. They also occasionally run 6-week well being courses.
Thistle Foundation Support
Support in Edinburgh, the Lothians & Fife — Thistle Foundation
Thistle Foundation Support in Edinburgh, the Lothians & Fife — Thistle Foundation offer wellbeing courses and one-to-one support alongside wellbeing coaching.
The Silver Line
Silverline is run by Age UK and is a free phone line for those over 55 The Silver Line Helpline they provide friendship, conversation and support.
‘Living with the Enemy: Coping with the Stress of Chronic Illness using CBT, Mindfulness and Acceptance’ by Ray Owen
Microsoft Word - The Book Prescription Scheme.docx
This is a book which may be helpful. This book focuses on how you can lead a good quality life, in keeping with your values, despite the presence of a long-term condition. It helps people to spot the ways of coping which have not been helpful and provides ideas of how to manage things differently. The book adopts a psychological framework similar to that often used within our service, and as such this book may be a helpful starting point. Copies of this book are now available in Fife Libraries.
Diabetes resources
Diabetes UK - Diabetes and Your Emotions:
Emotions and diabetes | How to cope | Diabetes UK
This covers:
- Depression
- Stress
- Diabetes distress and burnout
- Feelings about food and diabetes
- Feelings about diabetes technology
Diabetes
How diabetes affects your emotions | "You're Not Alone" a short documentary | Diabetes UK
Diabetes UK YouTube Channel with this helpful video on the mental health impact of diabetes:
Diabetes UK
Helpline Scotland | Diabetes UK
Scottish Helpline provides emotional support, among other advice services:
Living with Diabetes Podcast
Podcasts - Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
Wellbeing toolkit
Further resources
British Heart Foundation:
Emotional support and wellbeing - we're here for you - BHF
Heart Helpline: 0808 802 1234 Mon-Fri 09:00-17:00
The UK’s principal charity for people with cardiac conditions. Their emotional support hub has information on looking after your mental health, an online support community, and resources for loved ones. They also have a Heart Helpline where you can speak to a cardiac nurse to answer questions or concerns about a heart condition.
Sudden Arrhythmic Death (SADS) UK:
The UK's leading cardiac charity for Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome, raising awareness, placing defibrillators & providing support. They offer counselling and peer support for anyone with a cardiac condition, which you can sign up for on their website.
The Somerville Heart Foundation
Somerville Heart Foundation Support & Services
The only UK-wide charity supporting adults and young people with all forms of Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD). You can sign up to access all their information, support and resources for free as a ‘friend’. Their services include access to a specialist counsellor and information and support for families of young people who have CHD; although some services are paid for.
