My Approach
I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. I offer a wide range of psychological interventions tailored to your specific needs. I work integratively which means being able to offer bespoke treatment plans based on your individual requirements rather than offer a 'one-size fits all' approach. I typically draw on classic and new wave CBT, humanistic therapies, mindfulness therapies and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
I believe that collaboration is key in good therapy and will work with you to identify your problems or concerns, to create a joint understanding of these and what action you may need to take to improve your situation and move towards becoming the kind of person you may want to be.
I have a personable style thats is both compassionate and professional. It is thought that the therapeutic relationship is one of the most important therapeutic tools; as such I value the significance of the relationship I have with my clients, and my warmth, honesty and understanding help me to foster these alliances. I feel it is essential to provide a discrete, trusting and confidential environment, I prioritise these factors to help clients feel safe, supported and validated.
My Areas of Expertise
Counselling
Likely to last a number of weeks or months counselling is a type of talking therapy that provides a safe and regular space for you to talk and explore difficult feelings and to overcome issues that are causing emotional pain or making you feel uncomfortable. .
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is more in depth than counselling and aims to facilitate long term changes. Psychotherapy works to help you develop a greater understanding of your emotions by looking at your past. It questions how what you experienced in earlier life may have affected you in the present. Psychotherapy aims to find the very roots and beginnings of your issues and challenges, not just how to manage them now.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including anxiety, depression, relationship issues, phobias and more. CBT is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a negative cycle. It focusses on helping you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)
CFT looks to help those who struggle with shame and self-criticism. It promotes wellbeing and healing by encouraging individuals to be compassionate towards themselves and others. As a result you may learn to manage your moods in more constructive and compassionate ways. Specifically, gaining knowledge on how to decrease anxiety and negative self talk, whilst learning how to increase self acceptance.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is an action-oriented approach that helps individuals to learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions. It encourages individuals to make room for their hardships and to embrace thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them, and from this commit to making necessary changes to their ways of being and behaviour in a meaningful way.
Solutions Focussed Therapy
Solution-focused therapy is a short-term therapy which focuses on setting goals and working out how to achieve them. It’s about 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.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy helps individuals become and embrace being an expert in their own lives. In narrative therapy, there is an emphasis on understanding and acknowledging how the stories that you develop and carry with you through your life may impact you in the present.
Trauma Focused Therapy
This is a specific approach to therapy that recognizes and emphasizes understanding how a traumatic experience impacts an individual's psychological, behavioural, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and your emotional and behavioural responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist you in better understanding, coping with, processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences
FLASH Technique (FT)
An evidenced-based therapeutic intervention for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories. Unlike many conventional trauma therapy interventions, FT is a minimally intrusive option that does not require you to consciously engage with the traumatic memory. This allows the individual to process traumatic memories without feeling distress.