Overview of Therapies
CBT is a talking therapy designed to help you understand the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and actions. By exploring these relationships, you can learn to identify and challenge automatic or unhelpful thoughts, ultimately improving your emotional well-being.
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The insights gained from this approach can help a person to feel better relatively quickly and to help manage difficult feelings and behaviour. The focus of the therapy is largely on the 'here and now' although it often helps understand how current issues may have developed from past experiences.
What can it help me with?
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CBT is an evidence-based approach and an effective treatment for a wide range of issues, including; anxiety, depression, panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and pain management.
Effectively CBT assumes a problem solving approach and aims to break down current issues into five main areas: situations, thoughts, feelings (emotions & physical sensations) and behaviour (actions).
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What do I have to do?
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Through discussion, exercises and 'real-world' tasks you can gain helpful insight into how these areas interrelate and learn effective ways in which to respond, challenge, change and manage your thinking, feelings and behaviour.
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EMDR is a powerful and effective psychological treatment method. It combines a number of psychotherapeutic influences including CBT, free association and mindfulness. ​ EMDR is a three-pronged approach. This involves the processing of past events, present triggers and works towards future goals that help cope with potentially difficult situations that may be feared.
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How does it work?
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EMDR works by using bilateral stimulation (eye movements) to support Adaptive Information Processing. This allows the unprocessed information to process gently. It can feel rather different to other types of therapy but benefits can be felt in just a few sessions. Unlike some other therapeutic approaches with EMDR it is not necessary to talk through the details of the traumatic event or memory which for some may feel safer.
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When distressing or negative events are experienced, the brain can become overwhelmed and this may interfere with the ability to process information in the same way we might otherwise. Whilst we may be able to understand experiences, or the events that have happened on a cognitive or intellectual level, the memories can be held physiologically and feel stored on a deeper level or in the body. This results in the memory effectively becoming 'frozen' on a neurological level. The result of this can be heightened anxiety, depression, feeling on edge, jumpy, nervousness, hyper-arousal, irritability, anger, tearfulness, intrusive thoughts, feeling 'triggered', flashbacks or other symptoms of trauma and PTSD.
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What can it help me with?
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This technique is mostly used in treating trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there is a substantial and growing body of clinical research to support the effectiveness of EMDR in helping with a number of issues including: anxiety, fears and phobias, complicated grief and chronic pain.
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What do I have to do?
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Many people report EMDR as a relaxing and calming experience and enjoy the sense of relief from its offers. You may be given some techniques to practice at home.
Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)
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Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) is an evidenced treatment, typically delivered over 16 sessions. It is a structured form of psychotherapy designed to help individuals understand and improve their relational patterns and therefore emotional well-being. Main principles are taken from psychodynamic practice and focus on exploring how attachment and past experiences—particularly early relationships—shape current patterns of thinking, feeling, and relating to others.
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How does it work?
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Through exploration, reflection and the therapeutic relationship, emotional awareness grows. By improving self-understanding, one can gain insight into recurring interpersonal patterns that may be contributing to emotional distress, with the goal of developing healthier, more adaptive ways of relating.
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What can it help me with?
DIT is especially effective for individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties.
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