Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

This is a psychological approach which is based on scientific principles and which research has shown to be effective for a wide range of problems.

Clients and therapists work together to identify and understand problems in terms of the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviour.

Bereavement Counselling

It offers support and counselling to enable people deal with their grief. This applies not only to those directly bereaved through death,  but also to those whose lives are affected by the losses of those near to them.

Bereavement counselling offers the opportunity to explore, understand and work through feelings of grief. Although everyone's personal reaction to a bereavement is different, most people experience some of the following emotional responses when someone close to them dies such as disbelief, shock, anger, sadness, relief, guilt, depression, anxiety, despair, longing and loneliness. 

Grief is a natural reaction to loss. It is as much a part of your emotions as joy and sadness and is not an illness.

Individual one to one Counselling and Psychotherapy

An integrative approach is used with a combination of therapuetic styles such as Person Centred Therapy, humanistic, behaviourally therapies (CBT, Reality Therapy), therapuetic use of play, bereavement counselling among others.

Psychotherapy works with the underlying causes that may be contributing to your panic and anxiety. You may need to explore your past relationships, early personal difficulties and childhood development. Feelings such as anger, shame or low self esteem may have been hidden for some time and can contribute to your anxiety and fear. A good image for Psychotherapy is an Iceberg which floats on the surface of the water. We actually only see one third of the iceberg on the surface but two thirds of it is hidden under the water. In Psychotherapy we gently and respectfully explore the part under the surface. 

Person Centre Therapy

Humanistic Therapy

This approach focuses on recognising human capabilities in areas such as creativity, personal growth and choice.

The main goals of humanistic psychology are to find out how you perceive yourself here and now and to recognise growth, self-direction and responsibilities.

Reality Therapy/Choice Theory

The Reality Therapy approach to counselling is a problem-solving focused therapy. It is based on the here-and-now actions of the individual and the ability to create and choose a better future. The person seeks to discover what they really want and how they are currently choosing to behave in order to achieve these goals.