The integrative therapeutic approach which combines evidence based and scientifically proven therapies is based on client’s individual therapeutic needs. This approach enables clients to explore their negative experiences and identify issues that are affecting them in their daily life. We then work together to develop a way forward that is most suited to client’s individual situations and therapeutic goals.
This is a restorative process and it deals with deep issues from the past and the sources of your difficulties. It explores the unconscious, early relationships and past experiences in order to understand your current emotions, behaviour and thoughts. Progress with clients is regularly assessed and reviewed until client and therapist agree to end the work.
Adopted by the National Health Service (NHS) for a range of issues, CBT has been effective in managing psychological issues such as stress-related ailments, phobias, obsessions, eating disorders, and depression.
CBT emphasises that how we react to events is largely determined by our views of them, not often by the events themselves. Through examining and re-evaluating some of our less helpful views, we can develop and try out alternative viewpoints and behaviours that may be more effective in dealing with problems, coping with challenges and finding solutions to difficulties.
EMDR is a targeted, evidence based and focused therapy that identifies the root cause of issues and dismantles the blockers that keep people stuck in pain. It is effective in the recovery of addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, a wide range of common phobias (e.g. flying, going to the dentist,, needles, public speaking), anxiety, depression, early attachment wounding and relationship trauma as we all as multiple other mental health concerns.
Hypnotherapy can help clients make the desired changes, for example, it they have an emotional or psychological problem, a bad habit or addiction they can't break, or just want to feel better about life in general. It's a perfectly safe and natural way of using our inner resources, to reorganise our thoughts and behaviours to bring about beneficial change. In addition, unlike certain drugs, there are absolutely no side effects of hypnotherapy.
Schema Therapy is an integrative approach bringing elements from CBT, attachment and object relations theories, and Gestalt and experiential therapies. Schema Therapy suggests that many negative cognitive conditions are based on our past experiences also known as schemas or patterns.
The aim of Schema Therapy with CBT is that clients will learn the coping strategies to deal with schemas that are triggered to meet their core emotional needs and help with their schema modes – unhealthy negative emotions and thoughts which are deep-rooted in their childhood or past trauma.
Acceptance and commitment therapy also known as ACT is a form of CBT. It is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behaviour change strategies to increase psychological flexibility so that clients can live a rich and meaningful life.
