more INFORMATION THERAPIES WE USE AND the BENEFITS

We can't change your past; but you can create new healthy thought patterns, beliefs and habits and a new future moving forward.

With renewed confidence, motivation and and greater insight into your strengths and capabilities, will build your self- belief and confidence and  unlock your potential to create a new story and future.

You are stronger than you think.  You got this!

Cognitive behaviour therapy is a powerul tool to use in changing behaviour in therapy.  Addiction, unhealthy thoughts, habits, triggers  that can be a difficult cycle to break, but with the right support and treatment, recovery is possible. We are here to help you develop a healthy, fulfilling life, postiive relationships and habits. We offer a variety of evidence-based strategies and techniques for addiction, unhealthy thought processes and  habits, limiting beliefs and changing your behaviour and patterns.

  Cognitive behaviour therapy is an effective therapy for helping change a person's behaviour. It traces back its roots to Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. 

Behaviour therapy  By observing behaviour you can become aware of your beliefs and learned thought patterns, habits, triggers and reactions. 

Then replacing them with new thought patterns, affirmations, reactions, habits and beliefs, resulting in you changing to better ways, ultimately changing your outcomes and your future.

. It helps you change, reprogram unhealthy thought patterns and habits to more positive better feeling ones and create better coping strategies, habits and actions.

It's an effective therapy to treat:

• Beliefs, self confidence
• Anxiety, Panic
• Depression
• Stress management
• Eating disorders, Body image
• Alcohol, drug problems
• Addictions
• Mental illness
• Grief and loss
• Marital / relationship problems
• Conflict
• Phobias
• Trauma
• OCD
• Coping strategies and more

  Its based-on core principle that involves efforts to change/ reprogram thinking patterns.

Research shows that Cognitive behaviour therapy can lead to significant changes in your life, your outlook, perspective, happiness levels and mental, emotional and physical health. Also used in conjunction with Mindfulness based therapies MBSR (Mindfulness based stress reduction therapies). and other therapies.

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 Solution Focused Therapy SFT 

Solution focused brief therapy focuses on what a client wants to achieve through therapy, rather than on their problems or mental health issues in the past. It focuses on the issues that are presenting now and works with the client to find strategies and techniques to overcome difficulties, a crisis or on personal development goals.

 
It focuses on the client's strengths as they are designed to empower the client to achieve their goals and reach self-actualisation.

 
The counsellor will help the client design SMART goals and create a plan to together for client to achieve them. The counsellor encourages the client to build their strengths, look for exceptions where they've done it, rather than dwell on their past, problems or limitations.

 
We can’t change the past, but you can create a new future starting from today. Sometimes you need someone to believe in you or awaken your potential that lies within. You are stronger than you think.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

 ACT is a form of psychotherapy it's a mindfulness behavioural therapy. Its aim is to accept what is, what's happened and the pain that goes with it. To be able to create a meaningful and rich life, it uses an eclectic mix of mindfulness skills and exercises along with commitment and  behaviour therapy to help you accept and move forward with your life.

The concepts are psychological flexibility of mental health and behaviour effectiveness. 

When people’s responses to difficulties or challenging events their internal experiences reduce their contact with the present moment, preventing them from behaving in ways to live in meaningful life directions.

 
ACT is proven technique that’s effective to treat a range of clinical conditions:

• depression mild to moderate, chronic pain
• high stress and anxiety management
• grief and loss, trauma
• crisis, accident or cancer, illness
• PTSD, drug, alcohol issues 
• schizophrenia, PTSD, trauma, 
• body image
• mistakes, failures 
• OCD and more

  It takes into consideration your core values and whilst we experience difficulties, and all sorts of unwanted challenging private experiences, thoughts, feelings urges and memories. It teaches effective ways to handle all of these and adapt to these challenges by developing greater psychological flexibility rather than staying stuck in unhealthy thought patterns and habits and allows client to move forward with their life with acceptance.

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The practice of bringing one’s attention into the present moment without judgement or evaluation and without attachment. It is developed with practice with a range of exercises that teach you relaxation and techniques and how you can manage unhealthy or painful thoughts.  Its also used in combination with other therapies. 

It's an effective therapy to help you learn how to self soothe naturally and can help a range of issues: 

• Depression, high stress and anxiety management
• Trauma, body image, OCD
• Going through a crisis
• Life transitions
• Anorexia, eating disorders, Substance or alcohol abuse
• Conflict resolution
• Relationship problems
• Triggers responses
• Access your natural antidepressants 
• Reporgramming old thought patterns and habits 
• Grief and loss and more

Narrative therapy is a form of pscyhotherapy that aims to help externalise a client's problems, so the clients view it as something that's impacting their life.  Not who they are as a person. To make space betwen the problem or ssue and the person. Allowing client to see  that their current narrative is not serving them but is causing harm.  By re-authoring your life stories focusing on positive interpretation and emotions.

Narrative therapists help the client understand how their problems have been constructed and supported. Enabling them to re-author an  alternative narrative story that is aligned with their ideal or preferred identity or goal (who they wish to become or what they want to attain). 

Its effective therapy  to use for depression in conjunction with cbt therapy and other modalities

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• Phone sessions, walk and talk therapy at Broadwater, Labrador

Can help treat challenges and mental health symptoms and managing emotions and behaviour.

It looks more deeply at underlying issues and addressing limiting core beliefs and behaviours and aims to help client resolve them.

The catalyst for change is finding a therapist you can trust and following the treatment plan

Humanistic approach shares the vision of pscyhology that places human capacity for creativity, choice and growth.  Influenced by eastern European traditions and philosophies and European religions such as Buddhism.

The Humanistic approach is the person centred approach.  A person striving to find meaning and fulfilment in the world and in life.

It consists of awareness, of oneself and their capabilites, their role with others and that there are choices and with choices there are reponsibilites and ownership of those choices. 

Humans are aware that they are intentional and there is intention, aim at achieving goals and many of the times are aware they are the cause of future events. 

The Humanistic approach focuses on personal growth and development.

Every individual has a free will, and can make choices and decisions based on their experiences, environments and beliefs and goals.

Our choices create our future, There is no single reality. Our choices determine our future and outcomes.

This awareness helps the clients grow, reach their potential and move towards  self actualisation. 

Based on three core conditions necessary for clients to change:

1. Empathy
2.  Unconditionall positive regard
3. Genuineness 

This theory of person centred approach is based on the client and counsellor relationship will help them make progress and respond with constructive changes.

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Motivational interviewing Is a counselling approach developed by psychologists  William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick.  It involves a directive, client - centred counselling approach which aim to help change a clients behaviour by helping them explore and resolve ambivalence. 

Based on beliefs that clients have resistence to change, mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about doing something about change or about someone..

Its a positive optimistic approach  targeting and resolving this ambivalence by evoking and reinforcing the talk for change.

Carl Rogers was an American psychologist and the founder of the Humanistic Psychology Approach.

He draws on 3 beliefs:

1. Humanism: We all have potential for growth and development.
2. Existentialism: We all possess free will and make choices based on our Individual experiences and our personal beliefs.
3. Phenomology: There is not one single reality, rather our reality is constructed through our own individual experiences and beliefs.

The client is the driving force, and the focus is on what happening in their present and what they want to achieve.

The relationship between the client and the counsellor/coach is vital and a catalyst to help empower the client to make constructive changes.

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