How I can help
Therapies I offer
Sometimes it is appropriate to use a combination of approaches in order to best address the difficulties you are struggling with. The choice of therapy depends on the unique combination of the person you are and the problems you are facing. However, as a rule of thumb, the therapies below can be effective in treating the following issues:
Sometimes it is appropriate to use a combination of approaches in order to best address the difficulties you are struggling with. The choice of therapy depends on the unique combination of the person you are and the problems you are facing. However, as a rule of thumb, the therapies below can be effective in treating the following issues:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): CBT is most often effective when the way that we think about things we are struggling with is creating its own problems. Using this approach, we will be working on challenging old thought patterns and replacing them with more helpful ones.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT, which is related to CBT, uses acceptance and Mindfulness strategies, together with behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. This approach assumes that rigidity in thinking patterns results in less functional ways of dealing with our difficulties.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT):
I use DBT to help people improve their ability to tolerate distress, manage their emotions and improve their relationships. Mindfulness is also important in this approach.
Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT): Techniques drawn from Cognitive Analytic Therapy are also useful in exploring the difficulties people have within relationships and why we might get caught up in repeated and unhelpful patterns of relating.
Systemic and Narrative Therapies: these approaches, which are related, involve thinking about the difficulties that an individual is struggling with as part of a wider system or network. Narrative therapy focuses on how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves impact on our ability to succeed in life.
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT): SFT is useful for those who feel that they have reached a dead end and want help to shift their thinking and strategies, but are concerned about exploring old wounds and past history, and prefer to start from where they are.
Conditions I treat
It isn’t always easy to know what the problem is, and we will explore this during your assessment session. I have experience and training in the following areas (although your difficulties may be complex and not easy to fit into one category):
- Mood Disorders, including Depression, Low Self-Esteem and Anxiety (OCD, Generalised Anxiety, Health and Social Anxieties, and Phobias)
- Emotional Regulation, including Anger Management and Self-Harming behaviours
- Relationship Difficulties
- Personality Disorders, including Borderline or Emotionally Instability
- Unusual experiences such as Auditory and Visual Hallucinations, and including Psychosis
- Social Difficulties, including forming and maintaining relationships
- Problems arising from traumatic experiences, including abuse
- Bereavement and Grief
- Addiction
- Identity Issues, including Gender Dysphoria
If there are areas that are concerning you and which do not seem to be indicated above, please contact me to discuss whether I am able to help you.