As a person-centred counsellor, I create a warm, safe and non-judgmental environment where my clients feel comfortable exploring their thoughts, feelings and experiences. I work collaboratively with my clients to help them gain insight into their challenges and develop strategies to address them.
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is designed to help clients identify their strengths and develop practical solutions to their challenges. It is future-oriented and outcome driven and a great fit for people who would prefer a more expedient approach to their therapy. It doesn’t focus on the past, instead, it harnesses its power from tuning into the intuition of the client, focussing in on the change they desire. SFT essentially builds upon on what’s working well whilst mitigating what’s not. This form of therapy sets goals that move clients forward toward their preferred future in a highly productive way. By focusing on the client’s strengths and resources, SFT helps create positive momentum and assists in making tangible progress towards a client’s goals, fostering personal empowerment, greater clarity, confidence, resilience and fulfilment in life.
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) is really centred around inviting the client to form a strong connection with the present moment to help overcome the dysfunctional thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that disconnect them from being truly present. When we associate ourselves solely with our thoughts, beliefs and behaviours to the extent that we lose touch with our essential self/presence, we begin to attach ourselves to a distorted reality that constantly bombards us with anxious thoughts, limiting beliefs and self-sabotage. ACT seeks to help clients create psychological flexibility, to accept what they cannot influence and to create meaningful change where they can. ACT helps clients step back from their thought processes and simply observe them as they learn new skills to focus their attention on what matters most, whilst reorienting their relationship with their difficult thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, living in alignment with their values and authentic self.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of therapy that places significant emphasis on how a person’s thoughts, emotions, physical reactions, and behaviour all interact with the environment around them. It presupposes that all of these factors are interconnected and draws upon all of them in creating a highly personalised and effective therapeutic treatment plan for change. CBT seeks to help the client develop effective coping strategies whilst changing negative thought patterns & behaviours. Through a collaborative process, the client is encouraged to develop the skills and tools necessary to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals, gaining insight into their motivations and strengths, whilst beginning to cultivate positive habits and thought patterns that will support them in moving toward their preferred future.
