How the work is done
Therapy is not one method. These are the approaches our practitioners are trained in, described in plain language so you can see which one sounds like what you need.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT works on the loop between what you think, how you feel and what you then do.
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Graded exposure
Avoidance shrinks the map. Graded exposure is how it comes back, in an order you choose.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT works on carrying what cannot be fixed while you build a life you actually want.
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Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic work is interested in the pattern underneath the problem, and in where that pattern was first learned.
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Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy separates you from the problem, then looks at who gets to author the story.
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
MBCT teaches you to notice a low mood arriving without being pulled all the way down with it.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for the moments that feel unsurvivable, practised while calm so they are there when it is not.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS treats the mind as made of parts, and assumes every one of them, even the ones you dislike, was trying to protect you.
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Feminist Therapy
Feminist therapy takes seriously that some of what you are carrying was put there by the world around you, not by something wrong with you.
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Group Therapy
A group is the one setting where you find out how you actually are with other people, rather than how you describe yourself.
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Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt works with what is happening now, in the room and in the body, rather than only with the account of it.
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Integrative practice means the approach is chosen to fit the person, rather than the person being fitted to one school.
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Humanistic Therapy
Humanistic therapy starts from the view that people move towards growth when the conditions are right, and spends its effort on those conditions.
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Expressive Arts Therapy
Some things are easier to draw, move or make than to say, and that is the whole premise.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT works on the cycle a couple gets stuck in, rather than on who was right about the dishes.
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