Approaches

As an experienced psychologist, I have a toolkit of therapeutic approaches to choose from. The best approach for a particular client will depend on a range of factors that I assess when we meet, including the nature of their issue. With some clients, I will use more than one approach. 

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is focussed on what you can do now to start feeling better. It helps you examine, and start to change, the way you think, feel and act in response to different situations.  

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) starts with you recognising and expressing your emotions in a safe environment. As you get better at working with your emotions, you develop the skills to regulate and transform them, which can be life changing.  

Attachment Therapy (in its broader sense) examines the ways in which infant and childhood experiences shape adolescent and adult relationships. It can be very useful for people with persistent interpersonal issues. 

Imaginary Exposure is a cognitive-behavioural technique that is used to reduce the anxiety generated by specific triggers. It can be useful for treating anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias and panic attacks.

Mindfulness Meditation is about maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and environment. We tune into what we’re sensing right now, as opposed to dwelling on the past or imagining the future. We learn not to judge our thoughts, feelings or ourselves as 'right' or 'wrong'. 

Schema Therapy is used to help people break long-standing negative patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour, particularly when these patterns have been resistant to other forms of therapy. Schema Therapy combines aspects of cognitive-behavioural, experiential, interpersonal and psychodynamic therapies into one unified model. 

Psychodynamic Therapy is grounded in the view that we develop psychological defences, such as denial, in order to avoid processing difficult feelings and memories. This type of therapy addresses the ways in which our past experiences affect our current relationships with partners, friends and even work colleagues.