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CNWL CAMHS provides mental and emotional health specialist services for children and young people, and their families.
We help them and their families with emotional, relationship and behavioural difficulties when they are finding it hard to cope with family life, school or the wider world
CNWL CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) provides mental and emotional health specialist services for children and young people, and their families.
We provide specialist NHS services and support to children, young people, families and carers who are experiencing difficulties with their emotional, psychological and mental health. We have teams based across our five London boroughs (Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Brent, Harrow and Hillingdon) and in the community who can help you and your family to get the support that you need.
You can find out more about how CAMHS can support thoughts, feelings and behaviours you may be experiencing or difficulties you might be having, and where you can get some more support and information in the below links:
- Thoughts and feelings
- Behaviours and experiences
- Identity and relationships
- Mental health conditions and interventions (including medications)
We provide the following services:
- Have you taken a look at the resources page? Our health topics provide information and advice for different emotional and mental health and wellbeing topics that might be useful.
- We have a library of apps, websites and information that you can visit for information and self help options.
- If you feel you need more help and would benefit from speaking to someone in CAMHS, you can speak to your GP who can make a referral to CAMHS for you.
The following is a list of some people you may meet in your CAMHS journey:
- Arts therapists and art psychotherapist
- Child psychotherapist
- Family therapists (family and systemtic psychotherapists)
- Nurses
- Primary mental health workers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists and clinical psychologists
Latest news
Westminster CAMHS Neurodevelopmental and Learning Disability Team Celebrate Learning Disability Week in “style”
Posted on 24 June 2022
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Posted on 9 May 2022
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Young people in London struggling with their mental health can use alternative services to get immediate support. There are a number of ways to get help, with their priority to make sure you feel supported. Visit our website to learn more #OpenYourMind openyourmind.support
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The Open Your Mind openyourmind.support campaign is sponsored by the Healthy London Partnership to promote mental health resources that children, young people, and their families can connect to in a crisis or when needing advice.
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CNWL CAMHS’ pharmacists are happy to discuss any questions or concerns you might have about your child’s medications prescribed by one of our teams – just ask your child’s clinician to arrange an appointment with us.
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One of our parents shared this wise advice about resisting the urge to “Fix It” that she learned from Mindfulness: “Thoughts are like busses. You don’t have to get on the first one that comes along. You can wait until the bus comes that takes you where you want to go”.
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This is #CarersWeek, and in our CAMHS parents & carers group session yesterday we focused on self-care as vital not just for being able to care for others, but because we deserve it as individuals of value.
