Mental Health Service

PAFRAS’s Men­tal Health Ser­vice was estab­lished to pro­vide a recovery-orientated ser­vice based on the part­ner­ship with ser­vice users, vol­un­teers, statu­tory organ­i­sa­tions and com­mu­ni­ties in Leeds. The core aims of our work are to:

• facil­i­tate ser­vice users’ access to rel­e­vant agen­cies and appro­pri­ate services,
• facil­i­tate their inclu­sion in social life, and
• enable them to retain or regain an ordi­nary life, rather than iso­late them through exclu­sive involve­ment in spe­cial­ist Men­tal Health Services.

We offer the fol­low­ing ser­vices to sup­port the imme­di­ate men­tal health needs pre­sented by our clients:

• twice weekly drop-in Ses­sions (con­sul­ta­tions, screen­ings, assess­ments and refer­rals to appro­pri­ate men­tal health and sup­port services),
• cri­sis and short-term counselling,
• com­ple­men­tary ther­apy ses­sions for stress relief and man­ag­ing anx­i­ety and depression,
• men­tal health group support.

Some of these ser­vices are pro­vided specif­i­cally to sup­port ser­vice users while they wait to access more com­pre­hen­sive care from the NHS or vol­un­tary sec­tor organ­i­sa­tions such as Solace.