Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

CBT is the recommended first line of approach in therapy for many conditions as outlined by the government's NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) organisation.

CBT is a recognised and well researched approach that looks at the way your thoughts influence your emotions and behaviours. You may like to keep a record of your emotions and thoughts and together I could help you explore these thoughts for their usefulness and whether they are realistic or overly pessimistic.

Together we could explore whether you tend to be self critical, overly pessimistic or fearful. Whether you tend to jump to negative conclusions or have unrealistically high expectations of yourself and others.

For anxieties/fears we might look at situations you avoid to help you slowly face those fears at a slow and gradual pace which is comfortable for you, while also helping you learn new coping skills to deal with your panic and anxiety.

Solution Focused Therapy

This therapy holds at it core a belief that you have strength and abilities which have helped you get through life up until now and despite hitting a difficult patch you have the ability to turn your life around.

Together in this therapy I could help you identify where you would like to get to in your life and how you would like things to be different and explore past times when you felt you coped better, no matter how trivial, and help identify your strengths so that we can build upon these skills.

Couple Counselling Therapy

Either on your own, or with your partner, this therapy helps you identify area of difficulty such as communication, intimacy or sexual problems and explores ways of overcoming these problems. If I see you as a couple I would want to hear from both of you about your ideas and try to establish how you can find a way of living together, improving your relationship or if necessary separating in the most painless way possible.

EMDR

This therapy is useful if you have unwanted images or distressing memories which overwhelm you. In EMDR Counselling I would use a specialist machine which activates both sides of your brain helping you to re-process this distressing memory so that it no longer overwhelms or controls you.

Family Therapy

This is a useful therapy if more than one person in the family is affected by a problem.

It is also useful if you as a family want to avoid one person being blamed for the difficulties.

Or if others in the family has different views as to the solutions.

Or if you would like others in the family to understand the issues by attending the therapy all together.

I am happy to see families with children of varying ages and also different generations

Psychodynamic Therapy

This therapy is useful at helping you to look at how past relationships affect your current relationships. Through this therapy we would look for patterns in your emotions, the way you unconsciously protect yourself, your expectations and relationships with others.

Pain Management

This is a specific programme aimed at individuals who have chronic pain affecting their life. Through this counselling we would look at the nature of pain, medication, coping skills, sleep issues, pacing yourself and stress amongst other issues.