Estimates suggest that as many as one in four UK adults has a common mental health condition (i.e. depression or anxiety disorders) and that 91 million working days are lost to mental illness each year (Department of Health).

One in four is a big number. It means that you or someone close to you will suffer from anxiety or depression to an extent that is incapacitating, not just private misery. wpf provides a safe place with a reliable, well trained therapist who listens to each individual's unique story and then helps each person to make a better life.

Mental health problems are the largest single cause of disability and illness in England, accounting for 40% of all disability (physical and mental), nearly 40% of people on Incapacity Benefit (and a secondary factor for 10% more of them) and a third of all GPs' time. Professor Lord Layard of the LSE puts the total economic loss, in sick leave, lost jobs and reduced output, due to depression and chronic anxiety at £12 billion a year - 1% of our national income and £7 billion of this hits the taxpayer in incapacity benefits paid out and income tax not received.