Opening times / out of hours opening
- Monday - Friday : 9:00 am - 5:00 am
West Yorkshire Paths
West Yorkshire Paths is a specialist service. We offer psychological therapy and midwifery interventions for women and birthing people who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health needs from birth trauma and/or baby loss. This can include:
- Birth trauma, trauma from maternity and neonatal care
- Severe fear of birth
- Baby and pregnancy loss up to one year old; loss during fertility treatment and parent/infant separation at birth by childcare proceedings.
We offer support to people who live in Leeds, Bradford and Craven, Wakefield, Kirklees, and Calderdale.
Key support offer
Our team is made up of psychological therapists, clinical and counselling psychologists and midwives. We offer individual and group support using a virtual platform with options for face to face. We will provide an assessment for your mental health and find out more about your previous life experiences, presenting difficulties, areas which can worsen your mental health, areas of your life which are supportive of good mental health and any risks.
We will find out from you what you feel would be helpful in your access with our service. We will consider your goals and how that fits with what we can offer within our service. We will discuss any additional needs including physical or sensory, cultural or anything that could help you feel comfortable to access our service. This may include LGBTQ+ appropriate language and pronouns. We offer virtual appointments or, if needed, at home, clinics, community and family centres. The appointment will last approximately 60 minutes.
| Category | Notes | Yes / No |
| Self Help | including guided self-help e.g. recovery college. | no |
| Community Based | GP practices, primary care team, live well social prescribing, Voluntary and community sector support. | no |
| Professional Referral | further info about local clinical teams, accessed by professional referral (SPA, info on CORE AND ENHANCED, IHBT MH Teams). | yes |
Website / Social Media Links
- https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/paths/home/
Accessibility information for service
Resources and support available on request.
Waiting times / triage timescales
We currently have a waiting list for therapy, the wait times fluctuate depending on the service demand, but we aim for initial assessment within 4-6 weeks of receiving the referral.
How to access - self or professional referral
Professional referral from multi-disciplinary teams/partners, referral form available on our website.
Accessment process
If appropriate, we will provide an assessment for your mental health and find out more about your previous life experiences, presenting difficulties, areas which can worsen your mental health, areas of your life which are supportive of good mental health and any risks. We will consider your goals and how that fits with what we can offer within our service. We will discuss any additional needs including physical or sensory, cultural or anything that could help you feel comfortable to access our service. We offer virtual appointments or, if needed, at home, clinics, community and family centres. The appointment will last approximately 60 minutes.
Key partners
We work alongside other relevant services as required.
Signposting to services that can offer support if this service can't
We also signpost to other relevant services as appropriate.
