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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is an evidence based psychological therapy that helps people to identify unhelpful patterns. Links are made between thoughts, feelings (emotional and physical) and behaviours, with the aim of reducing distress and developing more helpful coping. It is time limited and goal focused.

Mindfulness Based CBT is part of the ‘new wave’ of cognitive-behavioural therapies. It combines traditional Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with the principles and practice of Mindfulness. The aim is to develop a different relationship with the thoughts and feelings that have been causing you distress and by doing so find a calmer and healthier way to relate to yourself and the world around you.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is an integrated psychological therapy, gaining support as a powerful way of working with common life difficulties, emotional distress and a variety of mental health problems. Compassion involves being sensitive to our own or other people’s distress, and learning how to skilfully alleviate this. In Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) we help people develop self-compassion; at the heart of this is learning how we can treat ourselves in a way that we would a good friend, or family member.

EMDR is best known for its effectiveness in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is widely used by the NHS, charitable organisations and private sector.

EMDR can also be used to help treat a variety of mental health problems like depression or anxiety, especially where a difficult life event has been involved. EMDR can be useful for people who have witnessed or experienced an event like a car accident, a violent crime, sexual or emotional abuse, bullying, a social humiliation or the sudden loss of a loved one, and are struggling to recover.

Schema Therapy aims to help people to change unhelpful patterns which they have lived with for a long time.

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Although schemas are usually developed early on, they can also form later, in adulthood. These schemas are perpetuated behaviourally through the coping styles of schema maintenance, schema avoidance, and schema compensation. 

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Schema-Focused Therapy consists of three stages. First is the assessment phase, in which schemas are identified during the initial sessions. Questionnaires may be used as well to get a clear picture of the various patterns involved. Next comes the emotional awareness and experiential phase, wherein patients get in touch with these schemas and learn how to spot them when they are operating in their day-to-day life. Thirdly, the behavioural change stage becomes the focus, during which the client is actively involved in replacing negative, habitual thoughts and behaviours with new, healthy cognitive and behavioural options.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you to explore what is truly important to you (your Values) and uses that knowledge to guide you to change your life for the better. This approach teaches you psychological flexibility and psychological skills to deal with painful thoughts and feelings; the aim is to help you become "unstuck" from unhelpful thoughts and narratives about yourself.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) describes an intensive therapy approach delivered by a team of therapists. Please note that we do not provide the full intensive version of this therapy. We use the principles of DBT to inform our therapy approach and can teach the DBT skills (distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and mindfulness) within individual therapy sessions.