THERAPIES
If you or someone you care about is experiencing one or more of these issues, please consider getting in touch. Also see below the range of therapy styles I utilise to support clients. Together we will learn what styles work best for you to achieve your goals.
Issues
LONELINESS
DEPRESSION
ANXIETY
ANGER MANAGEMENT
ADDICTIONS
LOSS & GRIEF
CRISIS
TRAUMA
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENTSUICIDAL THOUGHTS
RELATIONSHIP BREAKDOWN
SUICIDE BEREAVEMENTTherapy Styles
Rogerian
Rogerian therapy, created by Carl Rogers, is a therapeutic technique in which the client takes an active, autonomous role in therapy sessions. It is based on the idea that the client knows what is best, and that the therapist’s role is to facilitate an environment in which the client can bring about positive change.
Client Centred
Client centred therapy, or person centred therapy, is a non-directive approach to talk therapy. It requires the client to actively take the reins during each therapy session, while the therapist acts mainly as a guide or a source of support for the client. “Person centred therapy allows the client to steer the ship.
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug use problems, marital problems, eating disorders, and severe mental illness. Numerous research studies suggest that CBT leads to significant improvement in functioning and quality of life. In many studies, CBT has been demonstrated to be as effective as, or more effective than, other forms of psychological therapy or psychiatric medications.
Emotionally Focused (EFT)
Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach based on the premise that emotions are key to identity. According to EFT, emotions are also a guide for individual choice and decision making. This type of therapy assumes that lacking emotional awareness or avoiding unpleasant emotions can cause harm.
Solution Focused (SFT)
Solution-focused therapy (SFT) is a goal-directed collaborative approach to psychotherapeutic change that is conducted through direct observation of clients’ responses to a series of precisely constructed questions. It focuses on addressing what clients want to achieve without exploring the history and provenance of problem(s). Sessions typically focus on the present and future, focusing on the past only to the degree necessary for communicating empathy and accurate understanding of the client’s concerns.
Narrative
Narrative therapy is a form of therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalise their issues rather than internalise them. It relies on the individual’s own skills and sense of purpose to guide them through difficult times.
Interpersonal (IPT)
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited, focused, evidence-based approach to treat mood disorders. The main goal of IPT is to improve the quality of a client’s interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help reduce their distress. First, it addresses interpersonal deficits, including social isolation or involvement in unfulfilling relationships. Second, it can help patients manage unresolved grief—if the onset of distress is linked to the death of a loved one, either recent or past. Third, it can help with difficult life transitions like retirement, divorce, or moving to another city. Fourth, is recommended for dealing with interpersonal disputes that emerge from conflicting expectations between partners, family members, close friends, or coworkers.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is awareness, without judgment, of life as it is, yourself as you are, other people as they are, in the here and now, via direct and immediate experience. When you are mindful, you are awake to life on its terms – fully alive to each moment as it arrives, as it is, and as it ends.
Gestalt
Gestalt therapy is an approach to psychotherapy that helps clients focus on the present and understand what is actually happening in their lives at this moment, rather than what they may perceive to be happening based on past experience. Along with person-centred and existential therapy, it is one of the primary forms of humanistic therapy. It is based on the principle that people are best thought of as whole entities consisting of body, mind, and soul, and best understood when viewed through their own eyes.
Instead of simply talking about past situations, clients in gestalt therapy are encouraged to experience them, perhaps through re-enactment, role-playing activities, or artistic exercises like drawing and painting. In this way, clients can learn to become more aware of how negative thought patterns and behaviours may be blocking self-awareness and making them unhappy.