A personalised and integrative approach to therapy.
I work in an integrative and collaborative way, drawing on a range of evidence-based models to work in the most helpful way possible with each family or individual I meet with.
These models include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Systemic Family Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and more. This breadth of training means I can determine the most appropriate therapeutic approach for an individual and be able to deliver it, or help recommend an alternate treatment.
I can help with the following:
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- Confidence and poor self-esteem
- Friendship or relationship difficulties
- Low mood or depression
- Feelings of anger, anxiety or stress
- Problems at school
- Phobias or OCD
- Working with trauma
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- Parent advice and support
- Understanding neurodiversity
- Behaviour difficulties and managing behaviour positively
- Family relationships
- Separation or divorce
- Coping with traumatic birth, bereavement or loss
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- Adapting to change
- Living with physical illness
- Supporting friends and family
- Adjustment and coping with a medical condition
- Managing treatment and medication
- Procedural worries or fears
- Treatment decision making
- Coping with medically unexplained symptoms
- Coping with chronic pain
- End-of-life and bereavement work
Therapy models
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT is a therapy approach which focuses primarily on the “here and now” and can help us to understand your current thought processes and how they contribute to the current situation. CBT can include practical ideas of things to work on or practice between sessions in order to develop different patterns.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
The ACT approach is built on an understanding that we can not always change a negative experience or situation. Instead, this approach helps to find ways to accept them while also making commitments and taking steps to act in a way that fits with our values. I have found this approach to be particularly helpful when working with people readjusting to life with a health condition.
Systematic Approaches
As well as being a Clinical Psychologist I am a qualified Systemic Practitioner which means I have training and experience working with families and groups to help them to better understand and support one another. These insights can help the whole family to make changes as a result of therapy, as well as to better support each other’s change.
