Counselling and psychotherapy provides the opportunity for a client to work towards a more resourceful and satisfying way during times of distress, confusion, choice or change. This is achieved via the client-therapist relationship and giving you the respect, attention and time necessary to explore, discover and clarify ways of increasing the client's well-being and quality of life. Psychotherapy aims to facilitate, not advise, but to assist you in using client's own personal resources to examine the difficulties and the choices in dealing with those issues. Through mutual respect, honesty, and confidentiality the client will be supported and guided towards finding their own solutions and positive outcomes. The ultimate point of therapy is to help the person gain insight into how they have arrived at this point in their life, viewing the past, and focusing on changing and ameliorating their future, by dealing with the issues that exist within them. By understanding the questions of why, when, what, and how the client will be able to comprehend his or her emotional reactions. By acknowledging their emotions, we are not trying to change their feelings, but rather, accepting their emotional experience, and appreciate the reasons behind their difficulties. Ultimately, this will provide a better understanding of themselves as individuals, their reactions to their social environment, and propose positive changes for their personal growth. The following is a list of therapies I predominantly use :
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
combines cognitive and behavioural therapies. The approach focuses on thoughts, emotions, physical feelings and actions, and teaches clients how each one can have an affect on the other. CBT is useful for dealing with a number of issues, including depression, anxiety and phobias.
Holistic Therapy (Adlerian)
concerned with understanding the unique and private beliefs and strategies (one's life style) that each individual creates in childhood. This cognitive schema and life style serve as the individual's reference for attitudes, behaviors, and one's private view of self, others, and the world. It is when we have looked at our early life experiences, examined the patterns of behavior that repeat themselves in our lives, and the methods by which we go about trying to gain significance and belonging that healing, growth, and change occur.
Psychodynamic Therapy
evolved from Psychoanalytic Therapy and seeks to discover how unconscious thoughts affect current behaviour. Psychodynamic Therapy usually focuses on more immediate problems and attempts to provide a quicker solution.
Person-Centred Counselling
focuses on an individual's self worth and values. Being valued as a person, without being judged, can help an individual to accept who they are, and reconnect with themselves.
Gestalt Therapy
can be roughly translated to 'whole' and focuses on the whole of an individual's experience, including their thoughts, feelings and actions. Gaining self-awareness in the 'here and now' is a key aspect of Gestalt Therapy.
Existential Therapy
focuses on exploring the meaning of certain issues through a philosophical perspective, instead of a technique-based approach.
Family/Systemic Therapy
is an approach that works with families and those in close relationships, regardless of whether they are blood related or not, to foster change. Changes are viewed in terms of the systems of interaction between each person in the family.
Integrative/Eclectic Therapy
means drawing on and blending specific types of therapies. This approach is not linked to one particular type of therapy as those practising integrative counselling do not believe that only one approach works for each client in all situations.
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
combines cognitive and behavioural therapies. The approach focuses on thoughts, emotions, physical feelings and actions, and teaches clients how each one can have an affect on the other. CBT is useful for dealing with a number of issues, including depression, anxiety and phobias.
Holistic Therapy (Adlerian)
concerned with understanding the unique and private beliefs and strategies (one's life style) that each individual creates in childhood. This cognitive schema and life style serve as the individual's reference for attitudes, behaviors, and one's private view of self, others, and the world. It is when we have looked at our early life experiences, examined the patterns of behavior that repeat themselves in our lives, and the methods by which we go about trying to gain significance and belonging that healing, growth, and change occur.
Psychodynamic Therapy
evolved from Psychoanalytic Therapy and seeks to discover how unconscious thoughts affect current behaviour. Psychodynamic Therapy usually focuses on more immediate problems and attempts to provide a quicker solution.
Person-Centred Counselling
focuses on an individual's self worth and values. Being valued as a person, without being judged, can help an individual to accept who they are, and reconnect with themselves.
Gestalt Therapy
can be roughly translated to 'whole' and focuses on the whole of an individual's experience, including their thoughts, feelings and actions. Gaining self-awareness in the 'here and now' is a key aspect of Gestalt Therapy.
Existential Therapy
focuses on exploring the meaning of certain issues through a philosophical perspective, instead of a technique-based approach.
Family/Systemic Therapy
is an approach that works with families and those in close relationships, regardless of whether they are blood related or not, to foster change. Changes are viewed in terms of the systems of interaction between each person in the family.
Integrative/Eclectic Therapy
means drawing on and blending specific types of therapies. This approach is not linked to one particular type of therapy as those practising integrative counselling do not believe that only one approach works for each client in all situations.
"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."