Therapeutic approaches include . . . .
EMDR Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from traumatic disturbing life experiences.
EMDR therapy supports the mind to heal from psychological trauma, in a similar way that the body heals from physical trauma. For example, when you cut your hand, your body starts to heal the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it becomes infected and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. With psychological trauma, the brain’s information processing system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event and the emotional wound festers often resulting in intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using detailed protocols and procedures, EMDR therapists help clients to activate the brains natural healing processes.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy helps you to understand how your current feelings and behaviour are shaped by your past including childhood experiences. This understanding includes developing awareness of your unconscious mind and impulses.
Psychodynamic work involves getting to the roots of issues and problems so that we can make changes within ourselves and in our lives. For example, what happens in our early years and in our early developmental relationships can be a blueprint for the rest of our lives. It becomes a dynamic/pattern that we take into our adult relationships and life.
Parts Work
Psychodynamic Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Parts Work assumes that each of us has different parts to our minds and psyches. Each of these emotional parts has unique needs, wants, and beliefs and may be consciously and unconsciously helping or harming us, as we navigate our lives dealing with different experiences and challenges.
Parts Work supports us to bring our awareness to these parts – learning what each wants, needs, and fears, and understanding why, how, and when each part gets triggered. The goal is to create more harmony between the parts, resulting in a wide range of benefits including having more choice and an improved capacity to deal with problems and challenges.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy is a treatment approach that is largely based on the idea that thoughts, emotions, and actions are connected.
CBT aims to help people to identify and explore the ways that their emotions and thoughts affect their actions. For example, it helps people to recognise negative or unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.
Once people notice these patterns, they can begin learning how to change their behaviors and develop new coping strategies.
Systemic Family Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Systemic Family Therapy
Family Therapy supports family members and couples to express and explore difficult thoughts and feelings safely, to understand each other’s experiences and points of view, to appreciate each other’s needs and wants, to build on existing strengths and make beneficial changes in their relationships and their lives.
Individuals can also benefit from Family Therapy, as it provides an opportunity to reflect on relationships with family members and find ways to move forward where there are difficulties.
Shark Cage
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Systemic Family Therapy
The Shark Cage Framework was developed by psychologist, Ursula Benstead. It is primarily used to support women and girls to understand, prevent and heal from violence including domestic violence and sexual violence. It uses the idea that we all have universal human rights and draws on several therapeutic approaches to help women interrupt patterns of abuse in their lives in ways that challenges victim blaming and empowers them.
I also use elements of the Shark Cage framework to support any individual who has experienced bullying or violence or would benefit from strengthening their boundaries.