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Services
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Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling is an intentional, purposeful activity which research suggests, on average, has positive effects on mental health and wellbeing. However, not everyone benefits from counselling. One to-one counselling, provides a safe and confidential space for you to talk things over with a trained listening professional.
Therapy could involve learning new skills; gaining insight or self-awareness; problem solving; or developing new strategies for living.
What is “done” in therapy can be summarised in the following list of therapeutic “tasks”.
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Talking through an issue to understand things better.
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Making sense of a puzzling or problematic reaction to a situation.
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Problem-solving, planning and decision making.
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Changing behaviour.
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Dealing with difficult feelings and emotions.
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Finding, analysing, and acting on information.
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Undoing self-criticism and enhancing self-care.
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Negotiating a life transition dealing with difficult or painful relationships.
EMDR Therapy
Most of the time your body routinely manages new sensory information and experiences without you being aware of it. However, when something out of the ordinary occurs and you are traumatised by an overwhelming event (e.g. a car accident) or by being repeatedly subjected to distress (e.g. childhood neglect), your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining frozen in your brain or being "unprocessed". These memories can be continually triggered when you experience events similar to the difficult experiences you have been through. Often the memory itself is long forgotten, but the painful feelings such as anxiety, panic, anger or despair are continually triggered in the present. EMDR helps create the connections between your brain’s memory networks, enabling your brain to process the traumatic memory in a very natural way.
Clinical Supervision
Supervision is a formal activity during which a supervisor and practitioner work together helping them provide a safe, ethical and effective service to their clients.
My role as Supervisor, is to provide a private and confidential space which supports you in your clinical work. Although the main purpose is safeguarding the wellbeing of clients, supervision allows us to focus on client work, facilitating greater perspective and enhancing practitioner’s knowledge and skills (formative function); helps develop ethical maturity and ensures practitioners meet professional and ethical standards (normative function); and supports, energises and motivates practitioners from the intense emotional demands of the job (restorative function). Although I work with therapists from different modalities, the main models of supervision used by me are the Hawkins and Shohet and person-centred models.
