Person Centred Therapy
Compassionate Focused Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT understands that people's emotional reactions and behaviour are strongly influenced by their cognitions (thoughts, beliefs and interpretations about themselves and situations). CBT is an evidence-based type of therapy that believes that problems arise from exaggerated or extreme versions of normal processes. It tends to focus on current and specific problems and situations, identifying Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs) that are associated with low mood and maladaptive behaviours. One of the crucial steps in CBT is to help clients stop swallowing their NATs as if they were undisputable truths, so that they can step back and consider their accuracy. CBT also seeks to modify Dysfunctional Assumptions (DAs) which are the self-imposed conditions of living that are related to their NATs. DAs often take the form of conditional 'If... then...' or statements such as 'I should', 'I must'. CBT is usually of short duration in comparison to other types of therapy, being active and interactive. It is particularly successful for the treatment of depression, anxiety, bulimia, phobias and Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a theoretically grounded, empirically supported and structured process-experiential humanistic therapy that focuses on accessing and using emotions to help people deal actively with problematic situations. This type of therapy supports the idea that emotions are fundamentally adaptive in nature and that they point at what is significant, enabling the person to take adaptive action towards change. People who have problems regulating emotion can be overwhelmed by strong, painful feelings or become numb and distant from their emotions. They may fear to experience any type of strong emotions as they associate that with loss of control, suffering or past traumatic experiences. EFT assesses and processes dysfunctional emotion responses that interfere with effective functioning facilitating the experiencing of such emotions to increase the person's coping ability and to enhance awareness of inner emotional needs. EFT is indicated for clients who have experienced abuse, trauma, depression, domestic violence, crime-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), psychosomatic problems, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and unresolved relationship issues.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy explores unconscious or underlying conflicts that are at the base of some problems. It gives central importance to childhood events and experiences, family relationships and sexuality. It aims at helping the client to become aware of such conflicts, affect, suppressed ideas, repetitive patterns that lead to relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, self-loathing, self-sabotaging and issues with the body or a cycle of self-destruction. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy states that alleviation of symptoms and improvement of mental distress can be achieved through making unconscious content conscious. The unconscious is a psychoanalytic concept that refers to a phenomena related to the dynamics of the psyche (mind) in which some ideas or memories and whole experiences appear to be pushed into hiding, because they are too painful or too threatening for the conscious mind. This type of therapy is usually a long-term process as exploration of the unconscious requires the work with defences, dreams, fantasies and resistance in the attempt to make sense of the hidden material, associated feelings, and current and past experiences. Despite requiring more sessions, psychoanalytic psychotherapy searches for the roots of problems which may lead to long lasting and significant changes.
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment for trauma created by Dr Francine Shapiro. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to access and reprocess information towards more adaptive functioning. For more information access: http://www.emdr.com
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a body-oriented therapy for complex trauma and any form of emotional stress. This model was created by Richard Shwartz and it is based on the concept of multiplicity of the mind. For more information please access: http://https://ifs-institute.com/
The Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) a model for Trauma
CRM is a body-oriented therapy for complex trauma and any form of emotional stress. This model was designed by Lisa Schwarz and integrates various forms of therapies to facilitate reprocessing of neurobiological material encoded in the nervous systems. For more information please access: http://comprehensiveresourcemodel.com/