Our Approach

Cognitive Behavioural 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-judgemental 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.

Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT)

This type of therapy looks to help those who struggle with shame and self-criticism. Often these can be the driving forces behind other mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.

Addictions therapy

Addiction therapy is specialised therapy, which combined with the required medications prescribed by GPs or other health professionals, is designed to promote abstinence and clear up physical and emotional consequences of addictions. Treatment may also involve aftercare support in the form of self-help groups, which are designed to help people cope with the after effects and avoid triggers.  

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.