Why Are The Centre for Crisis Psychology Different?

The Centre for Crisis Psychology pioneered psychological aftercare following trauma within UK companies. Our 20 years of experience is unrivalled.

We apply this experience in brief crisis intervention to general stress management.

We Are A Small Company

CCP is a small company. This allows a strong sense of personal contact to grow between us and our customers. The consultants who customers meet are not salespeople or managers, they are the people who deliver the service directly to those affected.

In times of trauma and crisis it is always what needs to be done (and what does not need to be done) rather than how many helpers there are that is the key issue. It is the focused, purposeful, judiciously timed intervention which counts, rather than simple volume of staff. Therefore, CCP’s team was able to simultaneously manage 3 interventions in 1999 with a major air accident at Girona in Spain (180 survivors); an air accident at Glasgow (10 fatalities), and the Long Tom Pass coach crash (26 fatalities) in South Africa.

Our Hallmark Is Quality

CCP is dedicated to quality and consistency in its work, both clinical and organisational.

Our concern for quality leads us to directly employ all our own clinical staff so that we can guarantee an integrated response at the right time for our customers.

• A specialist team of telephone consultants provides 24 hour care to individuals
• A specialist team of fully employed consultants travels world wide delivering face to face clinical work

The demand on CCP for the capability to respond worldwide requires organisation of the highest caliber.

• From its head office a strong administrative team gives 24 hour 365 days a year co-ordination to operations

Because we work with trauma all the time, as a company...

• Our clinical knowledge is unrivalled
• Our organisational knowledge is incomparable

Because our consultants are in full-time employment...

• Knowledge constantly returns to the hub of the organisation - what we do is constantly reviewed and refreshed
• We are able to demonstrate a genuine consistency throughout our range of products

Only an organisation that employs a full-time team of consultants can provide this depth. Were CCP, instead, to call upon a network of affiliated counsellors, their limited experience of trauma and organisational operation would severely compromise the consistency and quality which we are proud to consider our defining characteristics – a true team working within a model honed from many years of experience.

Our full time team allows us to deliver our customers’ exact needs…

• We are able to relate to our customers in a more genuine and personal way because all our team members can be regularly known to them
• We are able to communicate the experience and needs of our customers clearly to the team and control and review protocols and performance
• We are able to give clear and consistent feedback to the customer

Maintaining a full-time team ensures that a history of experience and knowledge is built up between the client company and CCP.

The Centre meets the highest currently stated standards for practice.