Wise Wellness
WISE are pleased to launch WISE Wellness, a faith-based holistic wellbeing initiative, which aims to help the mental wellbeing of our communities in High Wycombe. Rooted in Islamic values, WISE Wellness fosters wellbeing in various different ways – mental health awareness campaigns, workshops, wellbeing speaker talks, and faith-based counselling.
The core ethos of WISE Wellness draws inspiration from the Words of God in the Quran and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings on him) in his Sunnah, combined with modern approaches to mental health to promote physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.
Mental Health Awareness
By empowering individuals to lead more fulfilling lives, we are working towards raising awareness on taboo topics in the community such as mental health, trauma, OCD, addictions, domestic abuse, with signposting to mental health provision.
Some examples of previous mental health awareness workshops are:
- Understanding Trauma
- Islam and Mental Health
- Navigating Family Relationships
WISE Wellness collaborates with well-established organisations such as Bucks Talking Therapies and Inspirited Minds to ensure integrity and qualified advice from knowledgeable speakers and practitioners.
To further inform yourself about Inspirited Minds, please go to: https://inspiritedminds.org.uk/
Faith-based Counselling
WISE Wellness is offering 1:1 faith-based counselling service for men and women (18+) in High Wycombe who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues. Support will be offered by male and female counsellors who are accredited Muslim professionals. Sessions can be conducted online or in person at The Hive facility on Arnison Avenue, High Wycombe. These are offered free of charge while we have funds available. Self-referral can be made via online forms which are available on this page
Note that the service is currently only offered to local residents of High Wycombe due to our limited resources and capacity.
The WISE Wellness counselling service will be available alongside NHS Bucks Talking Therapies and was co-developed with the support of the Buckinghamshire Health and Social Care Academy (BHSCA).
Please contact [email protected] if further information is wanted.
Bucks Talking Therapies
Bucks Talking Therapies is a free and confidential NHS service, providing psychological therapies for people aged over 18 with a registered GP in Bucks. They can help with Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Employment difficulties and long-term health conditions. They are keen to make the service as accessible as possible for the local community, and in line with this, have set up a clinic within the HIVE for the Muslim community across Bucks. Within this clinic, you are able to receive support from a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner.
If you would like to access this clinic, please contact them on [email protected].
Alternatively, you can self-refer by phone or online – 01865 901 600. if you choose this, please do mention within your referral that you are interested in the HIVE clinic.