Advancing Access and Outcomes in Digital Talking Therapies

Advancing Access and Outcomes in Digital Talking Therapies
Online Forum, 3.5 CPD hours
Tue 13 Oct 2026

Practical insights to implement AI and digital innovation safely and effectively across NHS Talking Therapies services

Join this free, expert-led forum for an inspiring morning of unmissable learning, networking and practical insights to support digital and AI innovation within your service. Designed specifically for professionals working within Step 2 or 3 NHS Talking Therapies, this unique event will bring you together with your peers from across the country to explore how innovative digital and AI approaches can improve your access, enhancing care and deliver better outcomes.

Through evidence-based presentations and interactive discussion, you will gain actionable ideas, proven approaches and the confidence to translate innovation into meaningful improvements for your own service.

Sponsored by:

Digital and AI innovation

Explore proven approaches to integrating digital therapies and AI into clinical practice.

Take one morning out to gain from invaluable digital updates, guidance and practical ideas, with the opportunity to: 

  • Integrate AI and digital therapies to improve access, efficiency and clinical outcomes
  • Apply practical AI solutions through real-world NHS case studies and implementation examples
  • Navigate governance, ethics and clinical safety to adopt AI with confidence
  • Enhance patient engagement and treatment readiness using digital innovation
  • Develop a strategic roadmap for building workforce confidence and embedding AI within Talking Therapies services

Identify new opportunities

Benchmark your service, share best practice and uncover new approaches to digital innovation

Leave this forum equipped with practical strategies, actionable insights and fresh perspectives to help drive meaningful innovation within your service. By attending this free online forum, you will be able to: 

  • Hear from the experts who are passionate about improving the future of talking therapies 
  • Network with like-minded peers to discover effective solutions to common challenges 
  • Benchmark your services approach nationally to learn where your service is making strides as well as opportunities for growth 
  • Ask your burning questions to gain tailored advice to take back to your service  
  • Benefit from practical insights on how digital innovations are researched, tested and implemented
  • Go beyond the technology to understand the realities of AI implementation

Meet your sponsors

SBK Healthcare would like to thank SilverCloud by Amwell for sponsoring this unique forum.

Opportunities to sponsor

Talking Therapies National Networking Forums enable providers of Talking Therapy technology and treatments to support healthcare professionals. If you would like to sponsor this forum please email Vanessa Jarman or call Vanessa on 01732 897788 to find out about all the engagement and branding opportunities available.

8:30
Registration, technical support and networking opportunity
9:00
Introduction, instructions and chair’s opening remarks
Rebecca Morley, Team Manager, BABCP Low Intensity Practitioner, NHS North Yorkshire Talking Therapies
Enhancing client access through digital innovation
9:10
Case study: Using existing digital tools to prepare patients for success before therapy
  • Maximising existing technologies to improve client efficiency and experience
  • Offering digital support options prior to treatment to improve readiness and outcomes
  • Clarifying where AI and digital innovations can enhance client access and experience
  • Case study: ‘Time for Change’: What the data looks like in practice
Tapuwanashe Matiza, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and Caterina Versari, Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Health Psychologist, Hertfordshire Partnership University Mental Health Foundation Trust
9:35
Questions and answers with your speaker
9:45
Interactive discussion: Moving from interest to implementation of digital approaches
  • What is your service’s biggest barrier to adopting digital or AI-enabled approaches?
  • How digitally mature would you consider your service today?
  • Where are the greatest opportunities for efficiency gains?
  • What governance, safety or workforce concerns need addressing first?
10:00
Feedback from Interactive discussion: Moving from interest to implementation of digital approaches
Practical applications of AI in Talking Therapies
10:05
An overview of the recent updates to the SilverCloud Programmes
Sam Lane, Senior Product Manager, SilverCloud by Amwell
10:15
Questions and answers with the sponsors
10:20
Meet the sponsors
10:30
Screen break
LENS (Learning Effective New Strategies) Project
10:40
Assessing the success and future of LENS in clinical practice
  • Examining how the LENS project is used to treat anxiety and depression
  • Predicting outcomes and tailoring material to target far-reaching demographics
  • Next steps: implementation in NHS Services
Professor Colette Hirsch, Professor of Cognitive Clinical Psychology, Kings College London
11:05
Questions and answers with your speaker
Implementation of Evidence-based Digital Therapy
11:15
Understanding the iCT-PTSD Internet-Delivered Cognitive Therapy Platform
  • Outlining the background and key features of the iCT-PTSD platform
  • Clarifying the evidence base through clinical examples
  • Offering an update on ongoing clinical trials looking towards service integration
Emma Warnock-Parkes, Research Clinical Psychologist, Experimental Psychology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
11:40
Questions and answers with your speaker
Practical clinical applications: Language, staff attitudes and engagement
11:50
Building workforce confidence in digital and AI-enabled care
  • Supporting less digitally-engaged populations: using language that improves uptake and engagement
  • Overcoming staff resistance and misconceptions: developing workforce confidence and capability
  • Preventing digital therapies from becoming a "lesser offer"
  • Case study: NHS England Digital Innovation Trailblazer Initiative
Rebecca Morley, Team Manager, BABCP Low Intensity Practitioner, NHS North Yorkshire Talking Therapies
12:15
Questions and answers with your speaker
12:25
Interactive discussion: Creating a digital and AI roadmap for your service
  • Where in your current pathway could digital tools have the greatest impact on access, engagement or outcomes?
  • What approaches have you found effective for engaging people who may be less confident or experienced with digital services?
  • Which strategic priorities could be most effectively addressed through the adoption of digital tools or AI-enabled solutions?
  • What would success look like for your digital and AI strategy and how could progress and impact be measured?
12:40
Feedback from interactive discussion: Creating a digital and AI roadmap for your service
12:45
Chair’s closing remarks and close of morning

Inspiring better practice

Speakers will share the successes, challenges and lessons learned from implementing new approaches, giving you practical strategies, fresh ideas and the confidence to drive change within your own Talking Therapies service.

Your expert speakers

This inspiring forum will bring together experts in the digital talking therapies field to share best practice, updates and give you the opportunity to benchmark your practice. 

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Rebecca Morley

Team Manager, BABCP Low Intensity Practitioner
NHS North Yorkshire Talking Therapies

Professor Colette Hirsch

Professor of Cognitive Clinical Psychology
Kings College London
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Emma Warnock-Parkes

Research Clinical Psychologist
Experimental Psychology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
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Tapuwanashe Matiza

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Sam Lane

Senior Product Manager
SilverCloud by Amwell

Caterina Versari

Assistant Psychologist and Trainee Health Psychologist
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Who will attend?

This unique online forum is designed for NHS professionals working at Step 2 and 3 across talking therapies services. Join this course to network with likeminded colleagues, including: 

  • Digital leads
  • High-intensity therapists 
  • Service leads and managers 
  • Clinical supervisors and team leads
  • PWPs 
  • Counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists

Past attendee feedback

Digital Innovations in NHS Talking Therapies has been held over the past five years as an online forum that has attracted consistently positive feedback. Previous attendees have benefitted from expert-led presentations, unmissable networking opportunities and new, practical ideas to take back to their services:

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“SBK manages time and again to collect innovative, passionate and committed speakers who are willing to share good practice and outcomes of their initiatives. This event gave me a good idea about challenges, initiatives and innovations throughout Talking Therapies”
- ROEX Digital Healthcare Consultancy, Digital Innovations in NHS Talking Therapies, October 2025
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“A very tight, well-constructed conference with a clear agenda and purpose”
- Southampton Steps to Wellbeing, Digital Innovations in NHS Talking Therapies, October 2025
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“It was very informative and I’ve left with a lot more knowledge on how technology can be and is already being used to improve patient outcomes”
- Westminster Talking Therapies, Talking Therapies Digital 2024: Recovery Through Innovation, October 2024
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“Very smoothly run online forum with interesting insights from a wide range of speakers and sponsors – I enjoyed listening to everyone”
- ieso, IAPT Digital 2022: Improving Access for All, October 2022
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“Really great session, I am always impressed by SBK events! Really slick and well put together.”
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health Minds, Talking Therapies Digital 2023: Expanding Access, October 2023
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“Today’s session was really useful – I have picked up some interesting information to feedback to my colleagues”
- Cheshire West IAPT, IAPT Digital: Expanding Access to your Service, October 2021

Confirmed sponsor




SilverCloud by Amwell a leading provider of evidence-based digital mental and behavioural healthcare solutions. Supporting 80% of NHS Talking Therapies Services, with up to 70% clinical recovery rates.


Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These trail-blazing talking therapies forums offer dedicated presentations, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be fully  immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

Your event, managed by us

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

Reach out today

If you would like more information on our sponsorship options an in-house forum or if you wish to discuss your needs and what solutions may be appropriate for your business, please contact:

Vanessa Jarman
Contact: 01732 897788
Email: vanessa.jarman@sbk-healthcare.co.uk