Mental Health Practitioners

What is a Mental Health Practitioner?

Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs) act as the first point of contact for non-crisis mental health support in your GP practice.

We are based in GP practices across Sutton, and also work collaboratively with other organisations including Sutton Uplift and share information to ensure continuity of care.

Whilst mental health can be complex, there are many things that can be done to support your mental wellbeing. We work with you to help improve your mental health and wellbeing through early intervention, relapse prevention and management of mental health, using a range of approaches to achieve this.

Who can see a Mental Health Practitioner?

To see one of our team, you must be over 18 years old and be registered with a Sutton GP.

What can a Mental Health Practitioner offer me?

  • An holistic assessment of your mental health needs
  • Advice and supportive consultations around managing your mental health
  • Signposting you to other services.
  • Onward referrals to specialist mental health services.
  • Support to prepare for further engagement with other mental health services.
  • Support identifying relapse triggers
  • Support to transition into community from secondary care

We are not a counselling or therapy service, but we can signpost you to appropriate services to receive talking therapies if needed.

We look at psychological, social, biological and environmental factors that may be impacting your mental health and support you to access other services if needed.

These services may be in your local community or provided by your NHS trust.

Please note that we are not a crisis service. For support in a crisis, please see the resources at the bottom of this page.

Our Commitment to You

We promise to be clear and upfront with you about all aspects of your care. We believe that honesty and
transparency are the best approaches to ensure long term and sustainable recovery for our patients.

We share information about your care and treatment with other staff involved in your care, but will only share
information where appropriate and necessary in accordance with GDPR.

How do I see a Mental Health Practitioner?

We do not accept self-referrals. Please contact your GP practice to book an appointment to see if a referral is
appropriate for you.

If you have already had contact with the Mental Health Practitioner and wish to change or cancel an appointment you can contact Single Point of Contact (SPOC) who will pass a message onto the Mental Health Practitioner.

Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Phone: 0333 332 6570

Our Leaflet and Poster

Click the circle icon to download a copy of our Patient leaflet or click here.

To download a copy of our poster, please click here.

Download MHP Leaflet

Crisis Resources

If you find yourself in a mental health crisis, support is available:


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