Therapies on offer
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
This is a clinically proven therapy for conditions such as depression, stress, anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, low self-esteem, anger management, relationship difficulties, work and career issues and phobias and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy aims to challenge our thoughts and belief systems to help improve how you feel. The premise is that our thinking influences how we feel.
Person Centred Therapy
The therapeutic relationship in person centred therapy is based on trust and facilitates the client to discover the meanings of his inner experience. This approach is built on the notion that the individual can set their own goals and also monitor their progress towards such goals.
Gestalt Therapy
Body mind and soul are aspect of the whole organism, termed in gestalt therapy as the holistic principle. We feel, think and behave in the present moment. Present time awareness represents a time where past and future are mere representations of what is now. Facilitated by the therapist, the client is able to explore and integrate these representations in becoming whole again, now.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Motivational interviewing is an effective evidence based approach in overcoming ambivalence that keeps people from making changes in their lives. This method honors and respects the client’s autonomy and builds self –efficacy. Motivational Interviewing has been successfully applied in culturally diverse settings, addiction treatment, general health concerns and in a criminal justice context.
Solution Focused Therapy
The assumption underpinning the methods applied in solution focused therapy is on focusing on the positive. Sometimes the simplicity of focusing on the solutions and on the future, can facilitate change in the desired direction. This way of thinking, conversing and interacting within therapy, is expanded upon with empirically proven methods. Solutions are generated by accessing the client’s own resources.
Psychodynamic Principles
Psychotherapy based on psychodynamic principles makes use of the idea that how you behave now is determined by past experiences. If relevant, questions about early experiences may be asked by the therapist. This can provide clues to help you understand the past and enable you to move forward. Approaches like CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and person centred counselling are used in conjunction with psychodynamic principles.
