Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

The approach predominantly used is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which is a well established time-limited, skills based treatment that has been shown to effectively treat:

• Generalised anxiety

• Panic Attacks

• Phobias

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• Depression

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  (OCD)

• Tic Disorders and Tourette’s Syndrome

• Eating Disorders

• Social Anxiety

• Anger and Stress Management

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy is a comprehensive, evidence based, behavioural treatment designed for people with Borderline Personality Disorder. It has since been expanded to treat problems of emotion regulation and consists of group skills training, individual therapy, phone coaching and a consultation team to treating clinicians.

DBT provides clients with tool to address emotional dysregulation and change cognitive, emotional and interpersonal patterns which result in suffering.

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is an evidence based psychological intervention which can be used to treat a range of disorders including post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), phobias, anxiety, and traumatic memories. For information about EMDR, see https://emdraa.org/emdr-faq/

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a behaviour therapy, which focuses on living a mindful, engaged and value driven life by ‘unhooking’ from unhelpful thinking patterns, connecting to the present moment and learning to accept emotional experiences.

ACT encourages clients to willingly open up to emotional experiences because efforts to avoid them for example through alcohol use, emotional eating, aggressive behaviours, have resulted in long-term suffering.