Types of Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that looks at your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and helps to change some of these to manage your problems. A key part of this is identifying the negative thinking patterns that you may feel trapped in, enabling you to break free from these and feel better. CBT focuses on equipping you with the tools to address your current problems and relieve the symptoms you’re facing.

Solutions-Focussed Therapy

Solution-focused brief therapy is a short-term therapy that focuses on the future rather than the past and promotes positive change by encouraging you to focus on what you can do, rather than what you can’t. It helps you discover, clarify and achieve your solutions to your problems. It supports and motivates you to move forward in life, rather than remaining stuck on the issues you are currently facing.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps you learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with your inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent you from moving forward in your life. With this understanding, you begin to accept your hardships and commit to making necessary changes in your behaviour, regardless of what is going on in your life and how you feel about it.

Relational Therapy

Relational therapy is a relationship-focused form of psychotherapy that draws heavily from psychoanalytic therapy. RT therapists use the therapeutic relationship to identify and address your psychological issues. A primary goal of RT is for you to leave your therapy session feeling connected, understood, rejuvenated and revived. RT therapists work to form strong bonds with clients and try to understand the influence of their past experiences and interactions, and when possible, resolve these through specific positive interactions.

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a humanistic, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy, drawing primarily from attachment theory to facilitate the creation of secure, vibrant connection with self and others. Rooted in the science of emotions and attachment, EFT helps you identify and transform the negative processing and interaction patterns that create distress. EFT offers a clear, structured path – it focuses on the development of emotional intelligence and awareness, enabling therapists to guide clients in recognising and expressing their emotional needs more effectively.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy helps people to understand how their problems are impacting their lives and provides them with an independent, external perspective on their issues. The goal of narrative therapy is to help you move away from a problem-filled description of your life to an identity that is more positively and richly described. It aims to help you define yourself by many things – and not just your problems. You are treated as the expert on your life so that you can understand your problems and make changes in your life.

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Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about how counselling works, or to arrange an initial assessment appointment. This enables us to discuss the reasons you are thinking of coming to counselling, whether it could be helpful for you and whether I am the right therapist to help.