Centre de compétences en psychiatrie et psychothérapie

Center of Excellence in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (CCPP)

The CHVR's Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy offers humane and professional therapeutic expertise to people suffering from mental health issues, helping them to find the best possible relief.

Children, adolescents, adults, and seniors experiencing psychological, existential, or relational distress (as well as their loved ones) who require the help of specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy can contact any of the Centers of Excellence in Psychiatry & Psychotherapy (CCPP) at any time, either directly or through their family doctor, by calling the following toll-free number: 0800 012 210. Psychotherapy Competence Centers (CCPP) at the following number: 0800 012 210.

The CCPPs provide the following services:

• Outpatient consultations in psychiatry and psychotherapy
• Psychiatric emergencies, including in emergency health services
• Therapeutic day clinics
• Interventions in the community by mobile teams
• Consultation and liaison psychiatry for all somatic establishments of the CHVR and for the Chablais Hospital
• Supervision of mental health skills in primary care and somatic medicine
• Coordination of the Valais Mutual Aid Network (REVs): health promotion and prevention

Therapeutic treatments can be provided on site, at home, in all Valais Hospital establishments, with partners in the social and healthcare network, on an emergency or planned basis. Treatments are provided individually, in family groups, in groups, or in workshops, according to the main models recognized in psychiatry and psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, systemic).

The CCPPs bring together the expertise of multidisciplinary teams composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and medical technicians specializing in the areas of perinatal care, children and adolescents, adults, and the elderly. They work in the comprehensive treatment of mental suffering and disorders, psycho-oncology, palliative care, difficult bereavement situations, domestic abuse, trauma, eating disorders, mental disability, prison medicine, and psychiatric expertise.