As an Integrative, mind-body Psychotherapist, I use a range of different therapies depending upon your needs.
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Psychotherapy is a process where you can talk about problems, difficulties, life stresses, distressing feelings or traumas within the safe, confidential space of a ‘”therapeutic” relationship’. Its aim is to facilitate change and support and assist you in finding meaningful alternatives to current unsatisfactory or distressing ways of thinking, feeling or behaving. Therapy also promotes self-acceptance and helps unlock your inner potential to help you find more fulfilment in life, work and relationships.
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Hypnotherapy is a form of complementary therapy where skilled verbal communication is used to help direct your imagination in a way which helps to bring about changes in perceptions, sensations, feelings, thoughts and behaviour. Hypnotherapy has a strong evidence base and has been used within medicine for over 200 years. It utilises a natural ‘trance’ state for therapeutic purposes. This enables me to help you contact, and reconnect with, the genius of your own inner Subconscious mind for problem-solving and life-choice decisions as well as your body’s innate capacity for healing .
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Hypno-Psychotherapy is the use of hypnosis as an aid to psychotherapy. Hypno-Psychotherapy uses a natural ‘trance’ state for therapeutic purposes and enables me to help you contact and reconnect with the genius of your inner Subconscious mind for problem-solving and life-choice decisions as well as your body’s innate capacity for healing .Using hypnosis integrated with psychotherapy enables the potential for more effective healing than with hypnotherapy alone. It is particularly suitable for more complex, serious or intractable problems or ‘mental health’ conditions.
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CBT uses the power of our thoughts to change our experience, feeling and emotions. Both yogis, martial artists and now recent scientific evidence shows the power of our thoughts to influence how we feel, behave and how we experience our lives. CBT is the NICE-recommended therapy used within the NHS for a large number of emotional or mental problems.
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Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy is a short-term, goal-orientated approach which utilises a set of tools and techniques to help you achieve specific goals. Symbolic Modelling & Clean Language techniques can be used within NLPt: this powerful, yet deeply respectful, process helps you to connect with your own innate, natural inner growth processes to harness your own inner wisdom and creativity to solve your problems in the right way for you. Symbolic Modelling, using Clean Language, is particularly useful for long-held, intractable problems.
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No matter how old we are, our ‘Inner Child’ is still present inside us all. How this ‘part’ of us is feeling has a big influence in affecting our adult selves – how we feel and how we deal with current situations and problems. ‘Inner Child’ work can be a useful aid in resolving numerous difficulties which bring people to therapy; from relationship problems or marital difficulties rooted in unmet childhood needs and feelings to the long-term impact of childhood adversity spanning a range of issues from bullying, bereavement, parental divorce, or being a child carer, to deprivation, neglect and abuse.
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Affect-Centred Therapy is a practical, respectful and empathetic approach to many serious emotional, psychological or behavioural difficulties which places the role of emotions as central. Rather than focusing on thoughts, Affect-Centred Therapy identifies and recognizes the fundamental role of emotion in human functioning. ACT interventions provide practical strategies helping you to cope with, reduce and resolve distressing emotions or emotional states in the present and/or from the past. It has been identified as showing promise as a potentially-lasting treatment for addictions and eating disorders(1).
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Mindfulness is an approach based in Buddhist psychology and meditative practices which has recently been taken up within a therapeutic approach. Mindfulness teaches you to attend to your present experience and, with regular practice, develop a calm, non-judgmental, accepting stance towards the thoughts and emotions you experience in your daily life.