By Your Side - Essex Maternal Mental Health Service

By Your Side is a maternal mental health service provided by Essex Partnership University NHS Trust, in collaboration with midwifery colleagues, which offers therapeutic care and grief therapy for people who were pregnant and have experienced a perinatal loss. Our team aims to help people with their loss, being by your side during a devastating time.

By Your Side works with people who were pregnant and are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties as a result of perinatal loss, including miscarriage (including recurrent/multiple miscarriages); still birth; termination and neonatal death.

Referrals must come through your GP, midwife, social worker or health professional.

Who can use this service?

How are services delivered?

You can contact your GP, midwife, health visitor, social worker, care coordinator or mental health professional to request a referral to our service, we are unable to accept self-referrals.

The service will offer a mix of video consultations, telephone appointments, face to face assessment and treatment in perinatal hubs and home visits, depending on your needs, as it is acknowledged that maternity and clinical spaces can be triggering if you have experienced a loss.

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