Our Approach
At CCS, We use a variety of assessments to provide the appropriate integrative, personalized therapy for each client.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
This is an approach of counselling that looks to help you manage problems by enabling you to recognise how your thoughts can affect your feelings and behaviour. CBT combines a cognitive approach (examining your thoughts) with a behavioural approach (the things you do).
It aims to break overwhelming problems down into smaller parts, making them easier to manage.
Systemic or Family
This type of therapy seeks to address people not only on the individual level, but also as people in relationships, dealing with the interactions of groups and their interactional patterns and dynamics.
Gestalt Therapy
The approach helps you to become more aware of how you think, feel and act in the present moment. It provides insight into ways in which you can alleviate your current issues and distress in order to aspire to their maximum potential. It therefore promotes a non-judgmental self-awareness that enables you to develop a unique perspective on life.
Transactional Analysis
In this type of therapy, a therapist will work directly on here and now problem solving behaviours, whilst helping you to develop day-to-day tools for finding constructive creative solutions. The ultimate goal is to ensure you regain absolute autonomy over your life.
Solution Focused
This is an approach that is used in therapy or counselling based on solution-building rather than problem-solving. Although it acknowledges present problems and past causes, it predominantly explores an individual’s current resources and future hopes – helping them to look forward and use their own strengths to achieve their goals. As few as three or four sessions may be beneficial.
Person Centred
In this approach the counsellor focuses on the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously rather than how a counsellor can interpret their unconscious thoughts or ideas. The counsellor or psychotherapist therefore works to understand an individual’s experience from their point of view and positively values the client as a person in all aspects of their humanity, while aiming to be open and genuine.
Psychodynamic Therapy
The aim of psycho dynamic therapy is to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness – helping individuals to unravel, experience and understand their true, deep-rooted feelings in order to resolve them. Our unconscious mind sometimes holds onto painful feelings and memories, which are too difficult for the conscious mind to process. In order to ensure these memories and experiences do not surface, many people will develop defences, which can often do more harm than good.
Problem Solving Therapy
This type of counselling is geared to improve an individual’s ability to cope with stressful life experiences. Such experiences can be rather large, such as getting a divorce, experiencing the death of a loved one, losing a job, or having a chronic medical illness like cancer or heart disease. Negative stress can also result from the accumulation of multiple “minor” occurrences, such as on-going family problems, financial difficulties, constantly dealing with traffic jams, or tense relationships with co-workers or a boss.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
This is a short-term form of psychotherapy that helps you identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the rationality of those feelings, and replace them with healthier, more productive beliefs. It focuses mostly on the present time to help you understand how unhealthy thoughts and beliefs create emotional distress which can lead to unhealthy actions and behaviours that interfere with your current life goals.
Multi-modal therapy (MMT) is an approach to psychotherapy devised by psychologist Arnold Lazarus, who originated the term behaviour therapy in psychotherapy. It is based on the idea that humans are biological beings that think, feel, act, sense, imagine, and interact—and that psychological treatment should address each of these modalities. Multi-modal assessment and treatment follows seven reciprocally influential dimensions of personality (or modalities) known by their acronym BASIC I.D.: behaviour, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships, and drugs/biology.
Multi-modal therapy is based on the idea that the therapist must address these multiple modalities of an individual to identify and treat a mental disorder. According to MMT, each individual is affected in different ways and in different amounts by each dimension of personality, and should be treated accordingly for treatment to be successful. It sees individuals as products of interplay among genetic endowment, physical environment, and social learning history. To state that learning plays a central role in the development and resolution of our emotional problems is to communicate little. For events to connect, they must occur simultaneously or in close succession. An association may exist when responses one stimulus provokes are predictably and reliably like those another provokes. In this regard, classical conditioning and operand conditioning are two central concepts in MMT.