Forms of therapy

Finding the right approach for each client is most important. During an initial assessment session, one member of the Practice will meet you to consider carefully what has brought you to see us. We outline and discuss options available, answer your questions and think, with you, about how best to work with you.

Who is counselling/psychotherapy for?

Counselling/psychotherapy can be helpful for people who feel emotionally isolated in the face of confused and paralyzing states of mind and situations, and who feel that a first positive step might be to overcome their isolation by talking to a counsellor or a psychotherapist.

The most frequent problems people bring to counselling/psychotherapy are related to confused identity, feelings of inadequacy and depression, relationship difficulties, inability to make sense of their experiences, impulsiveness and the struggle to belong.

Individual Psychodynamic Counselling

Couples therapy

Individual Psychotherapy

Group Psychotherapy / Group Analysis

Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

 

 

 

 

Summary of therapeutic approaches.

• Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy:

Both psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy offer the possibility of talking about your problems in the safety of the therapeutic context. You will be helped to reflect on how your present difficulties link with past experiences and how they affect the way you relate to others including the therapist.
The way psychodynamic counsellors and therapists work is similar although psychotherapists undergo a longer training.
The frequency of sessions varies according to your needs but usually is not less than once a week.
Psychotherapists work with the couch as well as face to face.

• Couples therapy:

Problems within relationships are addressed through sessions involving both parties, in regular sessions with a therapist.

• Group Psychotherapy and Group Analysis:

The basis of this form of treatment is that our problems arise in the context of our relationships, present and past. Patterns of relating emerge clearly in a group and can be acknowledged and worked upon as they are observed in the here and now of the group context. As individuals change the way they relate in the group, they are encouraged to apply those changes to their lives.

• Cognitive Analytic Therapy:

This is a brief integrated model of psychotherapy, developed in the NHS, which uses both cognitive and analytic understandings in a collaborative programme.

• Counselling with Organisations:

We have experience in setting up Employee Assistance Programmes for small to medium size organisations.