Therapies

CBT is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle.

CBT aims to help you deal with overwhelming problems in a more positive way by breaking them down into smaller parts.

You’re shown how to change these negative patterns to improve the way you feel.

Unlike some other therapy treatments, CBT deals with your current problems, rather than focusing on issues from your past.

Psychodynamic therapy draws on theories and practices of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis. It is a therapeutic process which helps patients understand and resolve their problems by increasing awareness of their inner world and its influence over relationships both past and present. 

Psychodynamic therapy aims to help people with serious psychological disorders understand and change complex, deep-seated and often unconsciously based emotional and relationship problems, reducing symptoms and alleviating distress.

It may be offered when other therapies have been tried in the past but something additional is needed or if it is your preferred option. It is often a longer-term psychotherapy than other psychological therapies. 

REBT is a challenging form of cognitive therapy in which we aim to notice and catch out moments in which you may be putting yourself in distress and the changing this thought process.

This therapy is based on the concept that we all have sets of rigid and dogmatic beliefs that disturb us and make us mentally unhealthy. In this type of therapy we learn to spot these rigid beliefs and to replace them with preferences.

Dialectical behavior therapy is a type of psychotherapy that utilizes a cognitive-behavioral approach. DBT emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment.

The theory behind the approach is that some people are prone to react in a more intense and out-of-the-ordinary manner toward certain emotional situations, primarily those found in romantic, family and friend relationships.

DBT theory suggests that some people’s arousal levels in such situations can increase far more quickly than the average person’s, attain a higher level of emotional stimulation, and take a significant amount of time to return to baseline arousal levels causing major distress throughout.

Person-centered therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that enables you to take more of a lead in discussions so that, in the process, you will discover your own solutions.

My role is that of a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment and acknowledging your experiences without moving the conversation in another direction. I am here is there to encourage and support you and to guide the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering with the your personal process of self-discovery.

Schema focused therapy an integrative approach that aims to treat personality disorders and other mental health concerns that don’t always respond to other treatment options.

Schemas are unhelpful patterns that people may develop if their emotional needs aren’t met as a child. Schemas can affect you throughout life and contribute to problematic coping methods and behaviors if they aren’t addressed. Most people tend to develop more than one schema.

The goal of schema focused therapy is to teach you how to ensure your emotional needs are met in healthy ways that doesn’t cause distress.

Ultimately, this form of therapy will help you develop a strong, healthy adult mode which – in turn – can help heal and regulate other modes and help keep you from being overwhelmed by their effects.

ERP is a type of behavioral therapy that exposes people to situations that provoke their obsessions and the resulting distress while helping them prevent their compulsive responses. The ultimate goal is to free people from the cycle of obsessions and compulsions.

Response prevention is key, because anything that gets rid of distress makes it impossible for us to get used to it. When people don’t turn to compulsions, they learn how to accept their obsessions instead of acting desperately to neutralize them. The thoughts are still difficult sometimes, but they no longer seem like a huge problem.

This process of getting used to something is what we call habituation. As patients habituate to the feelings their obsessions bring up and reduce their reliance on compulsions, they spend less time and energy avoiding distress, improving overall quality of life and ease.

Treatment of clinical disorders often bases upon “a deficit model”. This model conceptualizes the root of psychological distress as resulting from a lack, insufficiency or inefficiency of certain character traits, self regulating mechanisms, skills or capacities etc. Therapy is aimed at restoring these “deficiencies” in order to alleviate distress and return functionality. 

Contrary to the deficiency concept of therapy, positive psychology lays focus on your strenghts and capabilities rather than your weaknesses and other disadvantages. 

Positive psychology entails a broad concept, encompassing a variety of techniques that encourage you to identify and further develop your own positive emotions, experiences, and character traits.