Patient Referral

Do you have a patient or client who may benefit from speaking to one of our adult or children and young peoples specialists?

Alongside all members of the multi-disciplinary team being trained in psycho-social care (as appropriate to their level of expertise, at Changing Faces we highly recommend having a psycho-social specialist integrated as part of your team. This helps to provide a clear seamless referral mechanism for patients and can help to reduce the stigma of being referred to a psychologist. However, we do realise that due to funding restrictions and staff availability and accessibility that having a dedicated psycho-specialist on site at all times is not always a possibility.

If you do not have a direct referral mechanism to a psycho-specialist in team, or if staff do not feel able to address a patients concern’s with regards to their appearance, then our specialist teams at Changing Faces may be able to help.  

We are able to provide support to individuals through both individual sessions and group workshops.

• More information on our counselling provision for children under 11 can be found here.

• More information on our counselling provision for children aged 11-18 can be found here.

• More information on our adult service counselling provision can be found here.

If you have a patient or client and/or their family member who you think would benefit from our support and has given consent to be referred to Changing Faces, please write to us by letter or email including their address and contact details. We will send a letter to your patient/client introducing our services and inviting them to contact us personally. We can only offer individual appointments after we have spoken to a client on the phone.

We also offer training courses that will give tips and advice on supporting your patients or clients in your own specialist setting.

If you have any further questions please contact info@changingfaces.org.uk.

Please Note:

Changing Faces is unable to offer counselling support to patients or clients with body dysmorphic disorder. To find out more about services and support available to people with body dysmorphic disorder please visit Anxiety UK, (formerly the National Phobics Society).

Patients and clients who have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder should be referred to a trauma specialist via their GP. The UK Trauma Group provides information about PTSD and services in the UK.