Our A-Z worry list:

Abuse
Can be physical, such as domestic abuse, sexual, emotional or verbal or a combination of any of these.

Addiction
A physical and psychological dependence i.e. drugs, alcohol, gambling etc.

Anger and Anxiety Management
A procedure of acquiring skills to recognize signs that you are becoming excessively angry or anxious and learning ways to control these emotions.

Bereavement
Mourning the death of a loved one.

Bullying
Abusive treatment, the use of force or coercion to affect others, particularly when habitual and involving an imbalance of power.

Child Related Issues
School phobia, exam stress, family difficulties.

Depression
A “whole-body” illness, involving your body, mood, and thoughts. Many people with a depressive illness find it hard to concentrate, remember details, and make decisions.

Eating Disorders
A group of conditions defined by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual’s physical and mental health. Bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating disorder are the most common specific forms.

Emotional Distress
Mental distress or anxiety suffered as a response to a sudden, severe, and saddening experience.

Financial Debt
A means of using anticipated future purchasing power in the present before it has actually been earned.

Health Related Issues
Mental distress can adversely affects a person’s family, work or school life, sleeping and eating habits, and general health.

Life Skills
A set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life.

Loss
The state or feeling of grief when deprived of someone or something of value.

Obsessions
A thought that persistently recurs despite attempts to resist it. An obsession provokes anxiety and dominates a person, although the person regards it as being senseless.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
An illness that causes people to have unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and to repeat certain behaviours (compulsions) over and over again.

Personal Development
A structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning.

Phobia
A type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger.

Post-Traumatic Stress
An anxiety disorder that can occur after you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.

Redundancy
A form of dismissal from your job, caused by your employer needing to reduce the workforce.

Relationships
Counselling, sex therapy and relationship education supporting couple and family relationships. We can also provide high quality therapy for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and others who identify as being gender or sexual diversities.

Self-Esteem
A term used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth.

Self-Harm
The intentional, direct injuring of body tissue most often done without suicidal intentions.

Sexual Problems
Difficulties experienced by an individual or a couple during any stage of a normal sexual activity, including desire, arousal or orgasm.

Stress
When we feel that everything seems to have become too much. Anything that poses a challenge or a threat to our well-being is a stress.

Suicidal Feelings
When you get to the point of contemplating suicide, you are often so distressed that you are unable to see any other options or any other way out.

Trauma
A deeply distressing, disturbing experience or emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury, which may be associated with physical shock and sometimes leads to long-term neurosis.

Work Related Issues
Bullying, sexual harassment, stress, fear of redundancy, poor performance.

See our Services for full details of available therapies.

As a company or organisation…

MTCIC offers a range of support to organisations to meet their responsibilities under Health and Safety requirements relating to mental health at work. We can help you to put in place:-

• Good working practices
• Delivery of training to managers, staff and HR Departments
• Offer tailor made one-to-one solutions or group sessions
• Sessions on how to recognise mental ill health
• Effective ways to support staffs that are suffering from mental distress, in ways that are beneficial to you both
• Bespoke employee support services that can include counselling, coaching/mentoring and clinical psychological assessments

MTCIC is made up of a team of highly experienced people in the field of mental health who are able to offer this full range of services.