Treatment approaches

Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy  is a progressive form of psychotherapy that combines different therapeutic tools and approaches to fit the needs of the individual client. An integrative approach can be used to treat any number of psychological problems and disorders that matches evidence-based treatments to each client and each disorder. 

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on the way you think and behaviour. It is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours are all connected. The aim of CBT is to help you deal with overwhelming problems, in a more rational and positive way, by breaking them down into smaller parts. Therefore, by changing these negative patterns will improve the way you feel.

Psychodynamic Therapy is the psychology of mental or emotional forces or processes developing especially in early childhood and their effects on behaviour and mental states. Psychodynamic therapy,  helps people gain insight into their lives and present-day problems by evaluating patterns people develop over time. To do this, therapists review certain life factors with a person in therapy:

• Emotions
• Thoughts
• Early-life experiences
• Beliefs

Recognizing recurring patterns can help people see how they avoid distress or develop defense mechanisms to cope. This insight may allow them to begin changing those patterns.

Person Centred Therapy  aims to give the individual the right conditions for a person to reach their full potential and become their true self, which is termed as ‘self-actualisation’. This actualisation process is innate and accessible to everyone.

To help you achieve self-actualisation, the person-centred therapist will offer:

• unconditional positive regard (UPR) – accepting and valuing you
• congruence - being honest and transparent in how they experience you and your world
• empathic understanding – seeing your viewpoint as if they were you

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) is a phased, focused approach to treating trauma and other symptoms by reconnecting the client in a safe and measured way to the images, self-thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the trauma, and allowing the natural healing powers of the brain to move toward adaptive resolution via eye movement.