Treatment Approaches
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This psychological therapy aims to help you change the way you think, feel and behave. This therapeutic approach has been proven to be clinically effective in treating a wide range of emotional and physical health conditions in adults and young people. CBT looks at how we think about a situation which affects how we feel and act. CBT uses evidence-based treatment and has demonstrated a strong treatment efficacy (Hofmann, S.G. et al, 2012).
All qualified CBT therapists are accredited by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). The therapist will help you understand how your current thought patterns and behaviour, in particular, any harmful, unhelpful, and skewed ideas or thoughts, maybe triggering and maintaining your problems, or making them worse. The aim is to change your way of thinking and behaving to establish more realistic and helpful patterns.
Please visit:
www.babcp.com for further information.
EMDR (Eye Movement, Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
The goal of EMDR (Eye Movement, Desensitisation and Reprocessing) therapy is a psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980’s. EMDR helps to process distressing memories, reducing their effects and allowing clients to develop more adaptive coping mechanisms. The use of EMDR was originally developed to treat adults suffering from PTSD; however, it is also used to treat other conditions such as psychological trauma arising from experiences as diverse as, road traffic accidents, workplace accidents, natural disaster, assault, surgical trauma, war related experiences, childhood sexual and/or physical abuse and neglect.
Guided Self Help - telephone sessions available
Guided Self Help involves working through self-help materials based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles with the help of a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. This approach can help you to learn better ways to manage your difficulties. Guided self help may be delivered over the telephone or face-to-face with the appointments spaced out to allow you to work on addressing your difficulties between your sessions.
How we can help:
- Challenging thinking patterns: our negative thinking styles can impact on how we see others, the world and ourselves. We can help create a balanced perspective.
- Modifying unhelpful behaviour: we might be doing things which hinder progress and keep our problems going. We can help you break this vicious cycle.
- Coping strategies: avoidance and distraction is not the same as copying. We can help you cope with life’s challenges.
Some common concerns include
- Panic
- Depression
- Anxiety
- OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- Trauma
- Social Anxiety
- BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder)
- PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Worrying
- Low Self-esteem
- Specific Phobia
