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SERVICES I OFFER

Individuals

I offer psychological assessment and therapy to individuals, either face-to-face or via video link. Individual Therapy costs £130 per hour. Letter and report writing can be provided if required. Please ask for a quotation. I am registered with a number of private healthcare insurance providers including BUPA and WPA. Please kindly contact your provider to gain authorisation before booking your first session.

If you wish to contact me we can have a brief telephone conversation when you will have the opportunity to tell me a little about yourself, your difficulties and what you are hoping to gain from therapy. You will then get a sense of whether you feel I am the right therapist for you and I will be able to assess if I can meet your needs. That being the case a suitable session time will then be negotiated with you and will last an hour. Sessions are usually offered weekly, but this can also be negotiated. Please see Frequently Asked Questions for further information.

Following our initial sessions I will aim to develop a shared understanding of your difficulties and offer a therapeutic approach suited to your needs. Please see below.

Professionals and Businesses

I offer supervision to fellow professionals having had experience of providing this via the NHS for over 20 years, both to individuals and groups. I am experienced in teaching and training and have offered such to local trainees undertaking their Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. I also offer training and consultancy to business – please get in touch to discuss your requirements.

THERAPY
I draw on a number of therapeutic approaches, including ACT, EMDR, CFT and CBT, tailoring our work together to your individual needs and circumstances

ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of therapy that was developed in the 1980s. When working from an ACT perspective, we take the view that by accepting difficult thoughts and emotions we can lead a life that is driven by our values, rather then being caught up in our struggles.

ACT teaches us how to develop a mindful relationship with our difficult thoughts and feelings, reconnect with the present moment, identify and consider our values and commit to changing our behaviour. ACT can be helpful for a wide range of mental health difficulties.

EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITISATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR)

EMDR is a psychological therapy that can be particularly helpful for people who have experienced trauma or other distressing events. It can be used to work with the thoughts, feelings, images and physical responses that can remain following difficult experiences. For some people, these experiences may continue to affect their day-to-day lives through symptoms such as intrusive memories, upsetting images or heightened emotional responses. EMDR may also be used in relation to a range of other psychological difficulties, including anxiety or depression.

For further Information about EMDR, including an explanation of the therapy and video demonstrations, please visit –

https://emdrassociation.org.uk/

COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY
(CFT)

CFT was founded by Professor Paul Gilbert. It is an integrated approach that draws from developmental, social, evolutionary and Buddhist psychology as well as neuroscience. One key theory of CFT is that we have three systems that can contribute to difficulties if they are unbalanced - the Drive System, the Threat System and the Soothing System. CFT proposes that we can be taught to train our minds through Compassionate Mind Training to help experience compassion and develop various aspects of compassion for ourselves and others.

CFT can be helpful in managing a variety of emotional difficulties. When working from a CFT perspective you may learn a number of ways to help you treat yourself with greater kindness and compassion, manage difficult emotions, practice being in the present moment and enhance your ability to self-soothe.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT)

CBT is an active therapeutic approach which can be effective in treating a wide range of mental health difficulties. CBT is based on understanding that our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours are interconnected and can influence each other.

Sometimes, unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour can contribute to distress and maintain difficulties. CBT uses a variety of strategies to help us explore these patterns, develop more helpful ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings, and make changes to behaviours that may be maintaining difficulties.

The aim is to develop a greater understanding of the links between our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and to explore different ways of responding that can help us manage difficulties and make meaningful changes.

AREAS OF DIFFICULTIES I DEAL WITH

Abortion

Affairs and betrayals

Anxiety

Bereavement

Bullying

Cancer

Carer support

Depression

Family issues

Generalised anxiety disorder

Health anxiety

Infertility

Low self-confidence

Low self-esteem

Miscarriage

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Panic attacks

Phobias

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Postnatal depression

Pregnancy and birth

Redundancy

Relationship problems

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Separation and divorce

Smoking

Spirituality

Stress

Trauma

Work-related stress

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