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About us

About us

We were created to help children and young people with their mental wellbeing. We are part of the NHS and work within Tower Hamlets with our delivery partners, Step Forward and Docklands Outreach, to give students aged 4-19 emotional and mental wellbeing support.

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What is the Tower Hamlets Wellbeing Service

THEWS is there to provide support and guidance throughout the school system. We support school staff to better understand how they can help their students and make mental wellbeing a priority.

We support parents and carers to better understand what their children are going through and how to help them. And we support children and young people directly with evidence-based guided self-help. Giving young people a voice in their schools and their care is vital, and the Whole School Approach that schools are implementing will help everyone in the system hold children and young people’s thoughts and wellbeing in mind.

You can find out more about our service’s creation and how we are doing by clicking here.

Our Interventions

We are an evidence based practice, using predominantly adapted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for our guided self-help work with young people. We work directly with children in secondary schools and colleges, and with parent/carers of children in primary school. Our interventions are of targeted at specific problems a child and young person might face, and give them the skills to help them prevent an identified concern from growing, or to empower them to self-manage their wellbeing.

More Information about CBT
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A Young Person's Lived Experience

Want to hear from a young person about their experience with us? Please click here to read more! 
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Our Team & Partners

Our team are trained practitioners with experience delivering CBT based interventions and guided self-help. Click here to read more about what type of experience you might find when working with us.