What we do
Our Approaches
Our team of psychologists embraces a progressive approach to therapy. We leverage well-established and rigorously researched methods, but we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, we tailor these methods to your unique needs and circumstances. This ensures you receive the most effective and evidence-based treatment plan to help you achieve your goals.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them more effectively.
CBT can help
- Challenge Negative Thinking: Identify and challenge unhelpful thought patterns that distort your perception of situations.
- Improve Problem-Solving: Learn practical strategies to approach challenges more effectively and develop solutions.
- Boost Confidence & Self-Esteem: Build a stronger sense of self-worth and confidence in your ability to manage challenges.
- Confront Fears: Develop coping mechanisms to face your fears and anxieties in a more empowered way.
- Manage Difficult Situations: Learn practical skills like role-playing and calming techniques to manage stressful situations effectively.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them.
ACT helps with:
- Challenging unhelpful thoughts: Learn to identify and defuse negative thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress.
- Developing present moment awareness: Cultivate mindfulness skills to focus on the present experience and reduce avoidance of difficult emotions.
- Embracing core values: Clarify your personal values and commit to actions that align with them, leading to a more fulfilling life.
- Developing psychological flexibility: Enhance your ability to adapt to changing situations and respond effectively to life’s challenges.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories.
EDMR can help:
- Reduce emotional distress: By targeting the emotional core of traumatic memories, EMDR can alleviate symptoms like anxiety, depression, and flashbacks.
- Improve emotional regulation: EMDR can equip you with skills to manage difficult emotions more effectively in the present.
- Enhance self-perception: Processing past experiences through EMDR can lead to a more positive and empowered self-image.
- Develop coping mechanisms: EMDR can equip you with healthier coping strategies to manage future challenges.
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy aims to help you identify and understand unhelpful patterns and coping mechanisms that formed from early childhood experiences.
Schema therapy can help:
- Break Unhelpful Coping Mechanisms: Learn to identify and challenge self-defeating coping styles that may be hindering your progress.
- Build Healthy Adult Relationships: Develop skills for creating and maintaining healthier emotional connections with others.
- Meet Core Emotional Needs: Create focus towards fulfilling your unmet emotional needs from childhood, leading to greater emotional well-being.
- Develop a Healthy Self-Image: Challenge negative self-perceptions and build a more compassionate and realistic view of yourself.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy helps you to overcome obstacles, and improve your strengths using positive imagery and positive suggestions.
Hypnotherapy can help:
- Access the Subconscious Mind: This allows you to tap into your subconscious mind, where negative thoughts and patterns may reside.
- Reduce Emotional Distress: By accessing the subconscious, hypnotherapy can help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression, and phobias.
- Change Unwanted Behaviours: Address unwanted behaviours like smoking or nail-biting by reprogramming subconscious patterns.
- Enhance Relaxation and Focus: Induce a state of deep relaxation, promoting mindfulness and focus for improved well-being.
Psychodynamic Therapy
The psychodynamic approach focuses on the internal, unconscious mental forces that individuals are largely unaware of, but drive emotions and actions.
Psychodynamic therapy can help:
- Uncover Unconscious Conflicts: Explore underlying emotional conflicts from your past that may be influencing your present thoughts and behaviours.
- Gain Self-Awareness: Develop a deeper understanding of your motivations, defence mechanisms, and how your past experiences shape you.
- Improve Relationships: With deeper insight into attachment patterns, psychodynamic therapy can help you build healthier relationships.
- Reduce Unwanted Emotions: By processing past conflicts, psychodynamic therapy can alleviate symptoms like anxiety, depression, and anger.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
This method is aimed at helping couples to increase respect, affection, and closeness, break through and resolve conflict when they feel stuck, generate greater understanding between partners, and keep conflict discussions calm.
The Gottman Method can help:
- Strengthen Communication: Learn effective communication tools to express needs, listen actively, and resolve conflicts constructively.
- Increase Intimacy and Connection: Develop strategies to build a stronger emotional bond and feel more connected to your partner.
- Manage Conflict Productively: Equip yourselves with skills to navigate disagreements healthily and respectfully.
- Identify Underlying Issues: Gottman therapy helps couples identify deeper emotional needs and patterns that may be contributing to conflict.
- Rebuild Trust and Respect: Learn to repair past hurts and build a foundation of trust and respect within the relationship.

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