Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical-behavioural therapy has shown remarkable promise at helping people manage their emotions and cope with distress even when they don't have an underlying mental health diagnosis. This approach blends individual and group therapy with life skills training, mindfulness-based approaches, and an intensive focus on helping you better identify, understand, and regulate your emotions, reactions, and behaviours.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive-Behavioural therapy works on the premise that our thoughts affect our behaviour and our behaviour affects our lives. Through CBT you'll work to identify unhealthy and misleading thoughts, then replace them with healthier and more accurate ideas. CBT therapists often assign homework or even worksheets, so CBT works best when you're willing to do extensive work on your own, outside the walls of therapy.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, known as ‘ACT’ (pronounced as the word ‘act’) is a mindfulness based behavioural therapy that challenges the ground rules of most Western psychology. It utilises an eclectic mix of metaphor, paradox, and mindfulness skills, along with a wide range of experiential exercises and values-guided behavioural interventions. ACT has proven effective with a diverse range of clinical conditions; depression, OCD, workplace stress, chronic pain, the stress of terminal cancer, anxiety, PTSD, anorexia, heroin abuse, marijuana abuse, and even schizophrenia.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (Maxfield, 2019). EMDR therapy has even been superior to Prozac in trauma treatment (Van der Kolk et al., 2007). Shapiro and Forrest (2016) share that more than 7 million people have been treated successfully by 110,000 therapists in 130 countries since 2016.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (MCBT)

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a modified form of cognitive therapy that incorporates mindfulness practices such as meditation and breathing exercises. Using these tools, MBCT therapists teach clients how to break away from negative thought patterns that can cause a downward spiral into a depressed state so they will be able to fight off depression before it takes hold.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a mental state of awareness, focus and openness – which allows you to engage fully in what you are doing at any moment. In a state of mindfulness, difficult thoughts and feelings have much less impact and influence over you – so it is hugely useful for everything from full-blown psychiatric illness to enhancing athletic or business performance.

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational interviewing is a counselling method that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behaviour. It is a practical, empathetic, and short-term process that takes into consideration how difficult it is to make life changes.