Our highly skilled therapists provide a therapeutic approach that focuses on full recovery as opposed to a ‘temporary fix’. It is accessible for children, young people, and adults; offering support for all sectors including schools and businesses with a range of psycho-educational training and mental health support. 

Integrative Psychotherapy

This embraces the value of each individual. It is a unifying psychotherapy which responds appropriately to the person’s behavioural, cognitive, and physiological levels of functioning. It means that the individual needs of a person are given priority rather than applying one restrictive school of thought or theory to everyone. This progressive bringing together of many psychotherapy theories and practice in a pragmatic way allows for the huge diversity of needs from individual to individual. 

By applying the most appropriate and optimal theories and practices a truly client centred approach has consistently be shown to be more effective for people with a wide range of mental health disorders.

EDMR

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy approach developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro to help people heal from trauma or adversities, such as issues of abuse, bullying, domestic violence, grief/loss, attachment wounds, abandonment, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and many other complicated life issues. EMDR therapy integrates elements of many traditional psychological orientations, and is based on the adaptive information processing model (AIP). The AIP model hypothesises that there is an inherent information processing system in the brain that gets blocked when traumatic or adverse events occur, causing these events to get locked in the brain with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings and body sensations. Whenever a reminder of the traumatic or adverse event comes up, those pictures, thoughts, feelings, and sensations can continue to be triggered. According to Dr. Shapiro, many emotional problems and disorders are manifestations of these unprocessed trauma memories that are stored in the brain. EMDR therapy works on helping the brain reprocess these traumatic memories, and as a result alleviating the emotional and psychological disorders. 

As well as adults, EMDR therapy can also be used with children and young people with a wide variety of emotional and psychological problems, including PTSD, anxiety, phobias, depression, attachment disorders etc. Sometimes the impact of trauma is obvious. Car accidents, and the death of a parent are big events and it makes sense that afterwards, you might see your child struggling. But what about smaller, every day traumas like dog bites, stitches, bullies, or falling off a bike? Moving to a new neighbourhood or losing their favourite baby-sitter? Sometimes children even experience trauma due to things they overhear or see on TV! At times, life can be difficult for all of us. Children are especially susceptible to the impact of an overwhelming event, due to their age-appropriate inability to make sense of what happened. EMDR can be helpful for a child, and sometimes helps children feel better in just a few sessions, allowing the child to make sense of the scary moment; build mastery.