A form of psychotherapy that facilitates personal discovery, healing and emotional health by combining art making and therapeutic dialogue.  The “art” in art therapy is seen as a vehicle of expression. It doesn’t require for you to be an artist or consider yourself good at art.  What it offers is an way of exploring your inner experience & expressing yourself. In addition to a depth understanding of the art process art psychotherapists have skills and experience similar to other therapeutic modalities such as counselling and verbal psychotherapy. Read more about art therapy

Usually short term collaborative work which helps a person to develop new skills and coping mechanisms.  The person learns how to recognise and understand how difficult thoughts and behaviours arise. They can then practise the techniques to manage their feelings and responses more successfully.

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. Based on the idea that disturbing memories may be stored in the brain, with the emotions, physical sensations and beliefs that were there at the time of the event.  Although the memory itself may be shut away, it can give rise to difficult thoughts, feelings and behaviours.  During an EMDR session, eye movements are used to help the different parts of the brain reconnect so that memories can be put into a new perspective where they becomes part of the individual’s learning and resilience and no longer cause distress.

Non-directive, focusing on the client’s own values, where the client is regarded as the expert on himself. The client’s self-awareness and sense of self-worth is developed through the relationship with the counsellor. The best way out of difficulties will be one unique to the individual. The work is generally ‘Person Centred’ and will often focus on the whole of the individual’s experiences, thoughts, feelings and actions in the present.  It is a route to self-development and growth.

Exploring patterns in a person’s life and how they are repeating themselves in the present. It examines the emotions which may be keeping us stuck and explores how we might change their influence.  It focuses upon the relationships we have developed with ourselves and others, facilitating new understandings which give us more choice in how we move forward.