About us

We are a specialist NHS mental health trust with a focus on training and education as well as providing a full range of mental health services and therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

Clinical, education and research

We are a global centre of excellence in clinical practice, training and education, and innovation in the fields of mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Our distinctive approach to mental and emotional wellbeing focusses on the importance we attach to developmental, psychological and social experience at all stages of people’s lives

Our vision, mission and values

For 100 years, the Tavistock and Portman clinics have embodied a distinctive way of thinking about and understanding mental distress, mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Our vision

Our vision is to be a leader in mental health care and education, using talking and relational therapies to make a meaningful difference to people’s lives

Our mission

Our mission is to work in partnership with people, families and communities to provide high-quality specialist mental healthcare, alleviate emotional distress and pioneer innovative education and research

Our values

We strive for excellence  

We champion inclusivity  

We place compassion at our core

We have respect for each other

Our strategy

Our new strategy signals our values and sets out a plan to support all of us in coming together to deliver its ambition via a consistent way of working on quality improvement over the next three years. At its core is strengthening our relationship with service users, carers, students, all our partners and each other. This is our plan to ensure services, education, training and research are contemporary and fit for future as we consider merger partners.

The diagram is a pyramid with several different sections.  The first section at the top of the pyramid says ‘Patients and students’ The second section is titled ‘Our vision’ and says ‘Our vision is to be a leader in mental health care and education, promoting talking therapies and relational therapies to make a meaningful difference to people’s lives’ The third section shows our four values; Excellence, inclusivity, compassion and respect The fourth section is titled ‘Strategic pillars’, and shows five coloured boxes, with each saying; Outstanding patient care, education and training, partnerships for research and innovation, people culture, and sustainability The fifth section is titled ‘2023/24 objectives’ and lists; waiting lists student intake T&P voice bullying and harrassment team level budgets user experience sustainable partnerships partnerships for prevention equalities, diversity and inclusion medium term financial plan. The final section at the bottom of the pyramid is titled ‘Our mission’ and says ‘Our mission is to work in partnership with people, families and communities to provide high-quality specialist mental healthcare, alleviate emotional distress and pioneer innovative education and research.’