Life Coaching, Counselling & Psychotherapies We Offer

In this section, you can read about the range of therapies we might use when working with you.  You will find this section interesting if you want to know a bit of technical detail and theory behind how we may work with you.

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Life Coaching

Life coaching approaches can provide a useful tool bag of exercises and techniques to help you clarify what you want to achieve. It helps you identify blocks to making the changes you want, and identify strategies to help you move forward.  To help you remove more stubborn, complex, blocks to change, we use some of the psychotherapy techniques listed below.

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT can be helpful for dealing with specific issues such as: anxiety, depression, phobias; or addressing a specific problem e.g. managing anxiety at work, managing a particular relationship more positively etc.

If you like to think about your problems in a structured manner and then develop skills and techniques to gain more control in managing and addressing your difficulties, this approach may suit you.

Sessions begin with identifying and clarifying your problem(s), then collaboratively agreeing "homework" tasks, which you then experiment with in order to identify the techniques that are most effective for you. (Tasks might include: writing diaries, thought records, experimenting with different behaviours and noting the outcomes, creating charts and using them to measure the effectiveness of different experiments etc.).

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Solution Focussed Brief Therapy

This approach can feel quite energising because the focus is on identifying your existing strengths (which we can always uncover - even if you think you don't have any) and then building on these to address current problems.

If you like doing homework tasks, these can be devised and then used to find effective methods for addressing your problems.

If you don't like the idea of "structure homework tasks" this approach can still be effective. For further information about Solution Focused Brief Therapy see the following links:

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Gestalt Psychotherapy

This approach views you and therapist as equal partners in the psychotherapeutic relationship, and considers you as the expert on your experience whilst the therapist is expert in theories of understanding and working with psychological difficulties. This view underpins all of our work.

Gestalt experimental techniques can help shed new light on a particular problem and also uncover alternative ways to consider and respond to situations. This can lead to more satisfying outcomes. For further information on Gestalt Psychotherapy see the following links:

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Developmental Psychotherapy and Neuropsychology

Research behind these theories helps us understand why we want or long for certain things in relationships, that we do not seem to be able to obtain. It sheds light on biological and physiological mechanisms which impact emotions and what we can do to alleviate, understand and soothe deep emotional pain.

Clients who want to do more in depth therapeutic work often find this approach illuminating.

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Person Centred Psychotherapy

This approach takes the view that we are essentially good natured but that the vicissitudes of life may make us feel twisted inside. It recommends that the therapist adopt an attitude which includes respect, positive regard and being "real" in the therapeutic relationship. This view underpins all our work with you. For further information on Person Centred Psychotherapy see the following link:

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

This approach emphasises understanding our past history and how it impacts our present being in the world. It can help us to understand how our view of the world as a child can be transferred into the present and trigger old feelings and behaviours that don't serve us well anymore. It can be useful for increasing an awareness of "triggers" that can set off problematic behaviour and very powerful or overwhelming feelings.

We tend to use other approaches (e.g. CBT, solution focussed, gestalt) to support you in identifying ways to manage difficult "triggers" and the behaviour and emotions evoked by them.

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Transactional Analysis

This approach provides some useful ways of helping us understand how we communicate with ourselves internally (i.e. what goes on in our heads) as we manage and relate to current and past relationships.

Developing an awareness of our inner dialogue can help us to identify old strategies that may have been useful when they were formed but may not be useful or appropriate, in our current life.

Often these internal dialogues take place without us even realising how we speak to ourselves. Becoming aware of these dialogues, can enhance our capacity to identify what we might want to change in ourselves, in order to experience a more satisfying life.

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Existential Psychotherapy

This approach can help you appraise the world you live in now and identify what you can and cannot change. This includes exploring how to work with the limits of your environments, both past and present, in order to achieve the changes you want. We integrate this approach throughout all our work because many clients tell us they find it empowering and energising.

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