Commission our services
TCCR understands the urgent challenges faced by commissioners, making critical decisions to best meet the needs of children, young people, their families and adults. We know that evidence of effectiveness is important so all our services are clinically audited for effectiveness on a continuing basis. We also understand that Value for Money is an imperative also, our services have been designed to offer the best outcomes at lowest possible cost.
Why commission couple therapy?
Research evidence demonstrates the crucial importance of the quality of couple relationships, not only for the mental health and well-being of adult partners, but for their children as well.
Over the last thirty years, the evidence base for the effectiveness of couple therapy has grown, showing that couple counselling interventions have a significant positive impact on poor mental and physical health, depression, drug abuse, alcoholism and domestic violence.
Research has shown not only the serious consequences for children living with parents in conflict but also how the inter-parental conflict can be reduced which brings significant improvements in educational attainment, mental and physical health of children, the building blocks for a successful, economically productive adult life. With over 60 years experience TCCR can help add the critical element – the couple relationship – to existing or new services.
Where is the evidence?
TCCR has produced a series of evidence briefing papers. For more information please see our policy section.
What services are available for commissioning and by who?
TCCR's service offer is available to a wide range of commissioners please see the information below for more detail.
Mental Health and Joint Commissioners
NICE approved Couple Counselling for Depression for IAPT and adult mental health services
An up-to-20 session psycho-dynamic model delivered over four to six months as a planned intervention within and outside current Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services, as recommended by NICE Guideline CG90: Depression in adults: the treatment and management of depression in adults.
Who should I talk to next?
For a conversation about how we can help, please contact Honor Rhodes on 020 7380 1977 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
GPs, Clinical Commissioning Group and Locality Joint Commissioning
GP's are often seen by the same patients regularly, presenting with a variety of somatic problems, masking a troubled personal relationship. TCCR has co-designed services with primary care professionals to help patients get the help they really need.
TCCR's Wellbeing Service, a brief counselling approach of up to four sessions, for people whose relationships problem is not too entrenched or is related to a specific or new problem area, like a question mark over a couple's fertility or a recent bereavement. is early intervention service helps couples resolve issues and move on together. See TCCR's Wellbeing Service for more information.
TCCR's Short term Counselling in Primary Care, a service for couples and parents living together or apart, where a range of relationship issues create depression, emotional uncertainty, rage or violence. TCCR's highly trained counsellors use the sessions to help couples in conflict and despair recover their relationship's quality or separate from each other safely.
Who should I talk to next?
For a conversation about how we can help, please contact Honor Rhodes on 020 7380 1977 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
TCCR's Psychosexual Therapy Service
Many couples and individuals have longstanding sexual problems or ones that are related to more recent events, each problem causes anxiety, confusion and unhappiness. TCCR's Psychosexual counsellors are specially trained to help people resolve their sexual difficulties in safety. See our psychosexual therapy service for more information.
Who should I talk to next?
For a conversation about how we can help, please contact Honor Rhodes on 020 7380 1977 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Children and Young People's Services Commissioners
TCCR has worked in Children's Centres, offering short term counselling sessions, between 12 and 20 sessions in length depending on the needs of parents. The Counsellors use the sessions to help parents resolve conflicts between themselves that are affecting their children's physical and emotional health as well as their own.
By locating a Parental Couple Counselling Service within a Children's Centre setting the work systems around families change with Children's Centre staff thinking differently and more effectively about the impact and risk of inter-parental conflict.
TCCR offers its Parenting Together short term mentalization model for use after a series of successful trials. For more details about this service see our Parenting Together service.
Who should I talk to next?
For a conversation about how we can help, please contact Honor Rhodes on 020 7380 1977 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
