Individual Therapy

Individual Therapy

Individuals seek therapy for many different reasons. Previous issues may resurface, or unexpected life experiences arise. Work/school stress, relationships, trauma, bullying, and chronically high demands can test our resources and render us unable to cope. Sometimes we realise that our habitual ways of dealing with problems worsen the situation and recognize the need to find new ways out of our repetitive patterns. Through a process of reflection and inquiry we can develop insight into these patterns of responding to people, situations, or stressors and begin to actively modify or change our behaviours for more sustainable and fulfilling experiences.

Our clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, consultant psychiatrist, therapists, and counsellors offer individual therapy to children, adolescents, and adults. Our clinicians are trained in a broad range of evidence-based therapies and will tailor therapy to the individual client's needs, often integrating techniques from different therapies to achieve optimum results. This will be informed by up-to-date guidelines from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Our brains develop and change over the course of a lifetime. This dynamic process helps us to grow and mature but can also unearth deep-rooted issues and vulnerabilities. Mental illness is extremely common and psychotherapy, either alone or in conjunction with medication, can often help to alleviate some of the symptoms.

Services available include (but not limited to) the following treatment approaches:

  • CBT is an approach that concentrates on the connections between our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and our actions. CBT helps with learning how to identify and change problematic thought patterns that have a negative impact on us. CBT focuses on current problems rather than on any issues from the past.

  • Cognitive Analytic Therapy looks at past events, experiences and relationships to help understand why a person thinks, feels and acts the way they do, and then helps individuals problem-solve and create new ways of coping. CAT is a time-limited therapy with an average of 16 weeks being the norm.

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a mindful psychotherapy approach that helps individuals to focus on the present and cope with overwhelming and difficult emotions. ACT helps individuals accept deeper difficult thought patterns and feelings by encouraging an acceptance and understanding of these feelings.

  • Mindfulness-based therapy is grounded in mindfulness philosophy. This therapy focuses on non-judgmental awareness of the present moment experience, including one’s sensations, thoughts, bodily states, consciousness, and the environment. During Mindfulness-Based Therapy the client pays attention to their feelings and thoughts in the moment, with open-mindedness, acceptance and without judgement. Mindfulness-based therapy typically uses a range of practices including yoga, breathing meditation and sitting meditation.

  • Therapists use the play therapy to help clients resolve trauma, process and understand difficult experiences, and achieve optimal growth and development. These forms of therapy can be used with children and adults, including non-verbal populations. The indirect nature of the therapy creates a sense of safety and distance from overwhelming emotions and situations.

  • Expressive arts therapy is an integrative, multimodal approach to help people process experiences and achieve personal growth. In this type of treatment, people work with a trained therapist who helps them explore and understand their reactions to their experience with different forms of expressive art. Therapists who practice expressive arts therapy may draw on a wide variety of techniques, including psychodynamic and cognitive therapies, to create a treatment that is best suited to the individual's needs.