Cognitive Behavoiural Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a top-down therapy, meaning that it focuses on the here and now, since we cannot change the past and we only have so much influence over the future. CBT is an interactive therapy with the client, offering additional coping strategies, new insight and understanding of thoughts and feelings, impacting on behaviour.

New Wave Therapies: Within CBT, other domains of therapy include, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy, which offer additional techniques useful towards overcoming common problems.

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is a bottom-up therapy, meaning it goes into the core of the issues, unlocking issues with blocked neural pathways, as a result of past traumas interfering with today’s functioning. EMDR can help with all sorts of mental health issues, to resolve them once and for all, enabling adaptive information processing towards more control over thoughts and feelings. .

Person Centred Therapy

The basis for all good therapies, the focus and direction of is driven by the client. This therapy is predominately centred on three core conditions within the therapeutic relationship, which are empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence.  The therapist listens and offers reflection and paraphrasing back to the client of what is being said. The therapist enables a safe place for the individual to hear and verbalise their inner thoughts, without judgment, action or criticism, because sometimes things go through our minds, which often change in meaning when we have space to hear ourself say them allowed.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Language is only 7% of communication, the rest of communication is related through other ways, for example, the unspoken words between words and body language. This therapy uses the nuences of what is not said and what is felt within the therapeutic relationship, which is respectfully reflected back, offering new insight into what might be underlying to problems, helping towards resolve.

Clinical and Academic Hypnosis

Probably the oldest recorded therapy, potentially going back to biblical times, and often a misunderstood therapy and confused with stage hypnosis (which is very different). Clinical and Academic Hypnosis uses imagery, deep levels of relaxation, including a trance state, and with the use of positive suggestions, towards unlocking blocks, inaccurate labels and negative beliefs, which had been interfering and causing issues within daily functioning.

Dog Therapy

There is a lot of evidence to the positive effects on the human biology petting a dog or cat. Dr Ruth Henderson often has Archie (dog) in the therapy room to help individuals feel at ease and be soothed during a therapy session. Please see therapy dog page for more information.