When getting through each day is feeling like a struggle, or when you’ve been managing an issue for a very long time, it’s completely normal to want to see a specialist and have the whole matter solved instantly.

Unfortunately, and as many of us know, the process of working on our Mental Health can be a journey, and there are very few quick fixes.

Clinicial psychologist Ms Ilse du Preez and consultant psychiatrist Dr Chun Chiang Sin Fai Lam talk through how to approach managing your own expectations of the timescales involved, as well as give examples of some challenges people might face that can actually be worked on in a shorter programme of therapy.