Types of therapy I offer
Providing Everything You Need
Counselling
Counselling is a talking therapy that incorporates a variety of different approaches and techniques to help you to understand your thoughts, behaviours, feelings and situations that are causing distress in everyday life, Talking these things through can help make sense of where this might be coming from. Counselling is not advice giving but a committed process of helping you to learn more about yourself to help you move forward with your life.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a more open-ended in-depth approach and explores past issues that may be having an affect on present day problems. It helps clients to look at the root causes and core issues of problems in order to bring about lasting change and personal growth. It allows a deeper understanding of ourselves, and aims to improve our well-being by focusing on resolving behaviours, beliefs, thoughts and emotions. This type of therapy is often longer-term than counselling.
Body based and Trauma Therapy
"Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you, as a result of what happens to you" - Gabor Mate.
In other words, the trauma happens in our body. It is there that is can be stored, left unresolved, which causes us to experience symptoms such as anxiety and fear, anger, guilt and shame, numbness and disconnection. Also a range of physical symptoms such as migraine, IBS, insomnia. These symptoms can be caused by childhood abuse, verbal abuse, emotional and physical abuse, grief, hospitalisation - anything that puts the body into a survival state,
Body based trauma therapy works on helping clients to cope with the overwhelm of unresolved trauma and allows the body to feel safe and connected again.
Parts work/IFS
Internal Family Systems Therapy is an approach in psychotherapy that looks at the 'parts' of people that may be preventing them from being themselves. It is often described as a feeling of "not being myself" or "a part of me feels sad all the time" or "a part of me just wants to drink/comfort eat to make me feel better"
We are all made up of different aspects of our personality such as, anger, sadness and fear, and these are normal parts of us. At times these 'parts' can begin to manage us and influence our thoughts and behaviours and we don't feel like 'us' anymore. The aim of IFS therapy is to get to know our 'parts' well enough that we can understand what they may be holding onto and how they are trying to protect or manage us and allow them to release this and to return to a sense of wholeness again.
