Therapy services

A Clinical Psychologist is trained to Doctoral level to assess, understand and treat psychological distress, across the lifespan. However, since qualification, I have specialised in the mental health of adults.

Psychological Formulation

We will develop an understanding of how your past informs your present, and what might helpfully change, in order for you to achieve what you want for your future. This part of our work is called psychological formulation, and this ever-developing understanding remains a central guiding principle for our work together.

Integrative therapy

I work integratively, which means that I draw from a wide range of theories and disciplines to provide the therapy to best suit your situation. This might include:

✦ Third wave Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT), including mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion-focussed approaches.

✦ Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) which allows me to offer a balance between longer term attachment focused psychodynamic psychotherapy approaches, with newer, more time-limited cognitive therapies.

✦ Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), a popular therapy which pinpoints traumatic memories so that they can be processed and integrated.

✦ I draw on theories of the nervous system and body during stress and trauma, applying mind/body somatic techniques where helpful/appropriate.

✦ I am informed by ego state theory and parts thinking particularly when working with complex developmental histories and am trained to use Internal Family Systems (Level 1)

I’m completely amazed how this work has helped me see clearly and enabled me to mend the broken parts of my life.

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