For parents
Support for your child, when the NHS wait is too long
For parents of children and young people aged 7 to 17.
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Your child has been referred to CAMHS. The wait is months. Sometimes over a year. Things are getting worse in the meantime, and you are not imagining that.
Blip accepts referrals for children and young people aged 7 to 17 where NHS waiting times are causing harm. Supporting a child while they wait for CAMHS is one of our explicit inclusion criteria, not a workaround, a built-in part of what we do.
Your child will see the same clinician throughout. Not whoever is free. The team behind that clinician includes a consultant psychiatrist, senior CAMHS practitioners, an occupational therapist, a family therapist, and youth support workers. Cases are reviewed by the full team weekly. Sessions are by secure videoconferencing. No waiting room, no travel.
What happens after you contact us
- 1Contact us. Fill in the enquiry form. We reply within one working day.
- 2Triage. A clinician calls within five working days to understand what your child needs.
- 3Assessment. A full clinical assessment with your child's named clinician. Within three weeks.
- 4Care plan. A multidisciplinary team reviews the case and agrees a care plan with you and your child. Within one week of assessment.
- 5Intervention. Treatment begins within two weeks of the care plan being agreed.
What Blip can help with
Accepted
- Anxiety, including social anxiety, school-based anxiety, and OCD-spectrum presentations
- Depression and low mood
- Emotional dysregulation
- Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA)
- ADHD and autism-related emotional needs
- Self-harm at low to moderate risk
- Family difficulties affecting a young person's mental health
- Children awaiting NHS CAMHS assessment (bridging support)
- Young people stepping down from NHS Tier 3 or Tier 4 services
Outside our scope
- Acute psychosis requiring inpatient care
- Immediate high-risk suicidality needing emergency intervention
- Primary substance misuse without a co-occurring mental health need
- Forensic presentations
If your child is in immediate danger, call 999 or NHS 111 option 2.
Condition-specific information
Anxiety
How we assess and treat anxiety in children and young people, and what the NICE guidance recommends.
Depression
Recognising depression in young people, and how Blip's assessment and care pathway works.
School avoidance (EBSA)
Support for emotionally based school avoidance, including school liaison.
Mental health at 18 to 25
What Blip offers young adults who have aged out of CAMHS.
A note if your child is 16 or over
At 16, a young person is presumed to consent to their own healthcare decisions. We will not share information about their sessions with you without their agreement, unless there is a serious risk of harm. This applies across NHS and private mental health provision. It is not a policy specific to Blip.
Blip Healthcare Ltd is in CQC registration for Treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The service is led by Vivien Beni, RMN, Registered Mental Health Nurse and Registered Manager. All clinicians hold current registration with their professional body.
Ready to get started?
Fill in the enquiry form and we will be back in touch within one working day.