About CBT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), is a talking therapy that has been proven to help treat a wide range of issues and is recommended by the NHS.  CBT works with the idea that our thoughts, behaviours, emotions, and bodily sensations are all connected.  By changing what we do (our behaviour) or changing how we think (our thoughts), we can change how we feel.

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Using CBT, can help identify any unhelpful patterns that may be keeping your difficulties going. The focus is on making changes in the here and now, and on teaching you skills for life that will help you not only to get well, but to stay well.

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CBT has an excellent evidence base for a wide range of mental health problems in adults, older adults, children and young people. This research has been carefully reviewed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), who provide independent, evidence-based guidance for the NHS on the most effective ways to treat disease and ill health.

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Our CBT Therapists - Joanna and Sakina - have full accreditation with the BABCP.

About Compassion Focussed Schema Therapy

Schema Therapy is helpful for changing life-long patterns in relationships, difficulties in regulating emotions, personality-level difficulties, overcoming addictions and healing from  traumatic experiences.  

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It's a compassionate therapy drawing on CBT, CFT, Emotion Focused Psychology, Psychodynamic psychology and Gestalt Therapy, in which you work closely with your therapist to  understand how your current difficulties link to past experiences. Working towards healing the past pain, can help you to build a healthier and happier self in the present.

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Schema Therapy has an increasingly strong evidence base for people with long-standing personality-level difficulties, depression, anxiety, binge-eating and other emotional problems.

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Our Schema Therapists have completed extensive training in Schema Therapy with the Schema Therapy School and are accredited with the International Society of Schema Therapists. Joanna Hogan is an advanced accredited schema therapist and provides schema supervision.

About ACT

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. The aim of ACT is to maximise our potential for a rich, full and meaningful life by developing health, vitality and well-being.

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ACT has an increasingly strong evidence base, with over 20 randomised controlled trials across a variety of mental health issues. Our therapists use ACT to enhance treatment and our therapists have completed extensive training with Russ Harris in ACT for anxiety, grief and depression.

About EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a technique used primarily in the treatment of trauma.  Evidence of its effectiveness in other areas is growing including OCD and anxiety related issues.

EMDR uses eye movements that activate both the right and left sides of the brain to create changes in how the brain patterns memories reducing the intensity of traumatic memories. The eye movements allow the brain to make the neural connections and associations necessary to digest traumatic memories and store them differently so that they don’t keep popping back up causing emotional distress, flashbacks and nightmares. We have therapists who have completed Levels 1, 2 and 3 in EMDR and who have also been trained in how to integrate EMDR with Schema Therapy.