It’s never too late to seek help and bring a change in your life.
I work with adults, adolescents and teenagers.
My adolescent clients need support with
Academic stress
Peer pressure
Emotional changes
Identity and body image issues (increased self consciousness )
Issues related to autonomy - which may lead to disagreements and conflicts with authority figures
Social media influence
Risk taking behaviors
Anxiety related to future uncertainty.
My adult clients want support to deal with
Stress & anxiety
Depression
Self esteem
Anger management
Communication skills
Relationship issues
Life transitions
Approaches
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It is a highly effective, evidence-based treatment for mental health disorders. It is structured, collaborative, goal oriented and problem focused. It focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviors influence each other. In CBT we focus on a variety of cognitive interventions helping clients change their perspective and develop balanced or alternative thoughts. We will also cover behavioural interventions: problem solving, behavioral activation, and exposure therapy. In short, CBT teaches clients to identify, evaluate and respond to their dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs
It is educational and aims to teach the patient to be their own therapist and emphasizes relapse prevention.
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The basic premise of REBT is that almost all human emotions and behaviors are the result of what people think, assume or believe (about themselves, other people, and the world in general). It is what people believe about situations they face – not the situations themselves – that determines how they feel and behave.
In short, what we think determines what we feel. REBT is brief, time limited , task-oriented and focuses on problem-solving in the present. REBT has been successfully used to help people with anxiety, depression, stress management, anger management and eating disorders.
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This approach helps clients become more aware of and make productive use of their emotions. A major premise in EFT is that transformation is possible only when individuals accept themselves as they are. Clients are helped in EFT to better identify, experience, accept, explore, make sense of, transform, and flexibly manage their emotions. Clients do not change their emotions simply by talking about them, by understanding their origins, or by changing beliefs; rather, emotions are changed after they are accepted and experienced, opposed with different emotions to transform them, and reflected on to create new narrative meaning (Greenberg, 2015).
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MBCT integrates cognitive therapy with mindfulness to help clients with chronic health issues manage stress, pain, and emotions like anxiety and depression. It promotes non-judgmental awareness of thoughts and feelings, empowering individuals to respond to life's challenges.
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It is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.
Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
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It is a practical, evidence-based method that focuses on setting goals and working out how to achieve therm, it's about the future rather than the past and promotes positive change by encouraging you to focus on what you can do, rather than what you can't. It focuses on what clients want and their strengths. The therapist and client collaboratively explore the client’s life experience to find resources and skills the client can use to build pragmatic and sustainable solutions that are straightforward to implement.
Solution-focused brief therapy can be helpful for a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship issues and coping with changes in life.