If you are experiencing ongoing low mood, loss of interest, and reduced energy, we can help by identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. You will be able to develop more balanced thinking and increasing positive activities to regain your motivation, energy and reduce low mood symptoms.
Generalised anxiety involves excessively worrying and finding it difficult to control which then impairs your day to day functioning, then therapy can help understand the causes, the maintenance and how to challenge the worry. It will incorporate skills to challenge the thoughts and practicing helpful behaviours to reduce the physical and mental symptoms of anxiety.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) involves intrusive, unwanted thoughts, images, or urges (obsessions) and repetitive behaviours or mental acts (compulsions) carried out to reduce anxiety or distress.
We use exposure and responses prevention (ERP) within our therapy which helps by gradually facing feared thoughts or situations without performing compulsions. Over time, this reduces anxiety and weakens the cycle that maintains OCD.
PTSD can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. This can cause symptoms such as intrusive memories, avoidance, heightened alertness, and negative changes in mood or beliefs.
We help by addressing trauma-related thoughts and avoidance patterns. We guide you through processing the trauma safely, reduce distressing symptoms, and regain a sense of control and safety.
Social anxiety involves having a fear of social situations and worrying about being judged, embarrassed or negatively evaluated by others. This can lead to avoidance and low self esteem. We help to challenge negative beliefs and gradually facing feared situations to build confidence in interacting with social situations.
Health anxiety involves excessive worry about having or developing a serious illness with difficulties in focusing the mind elsewhere. Health anxiety can involve unhelpful behaviours such as avoidance or frequent trips to doctors, body checking, reassurance seeking and googling symptoms. We can help through challenging catastrophic thinking and reduce unhelpful behaviours.
Panic disorder involves recurring, unexpected panic attacks and ongoing fear of having more attacks or their consequences, often leading to avoidance of certain situations.
We can help by teaching you to understand and reframe feared interpretations of physical sensations, and by gradually facing those sensations and avoided situations. We aim to reduce fear of panic attacks and restores confidence.
Our service can help treat specific disorders such as needle phobia, blood phobia, Emetophobia (fear of vomit) and many more. We use gradual exposure and cognitive strategies to allow you to challenge your fears at your own pace to reduce the upsetting symptoms caused by the feared stimuli.
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) involves persistent, distressing preoccupation with perceived flaws in appearance often leading to repetitive checking, reassurance-seeking, or avoidance.
We help by challenging beliefs about appearance and reducing unhelpful behavioirs such as mirror checking or camouflaging. We also incorporate gradual exposure to feared situations, helping lessen distress and improve self-esteem over time.
Stress and burn out and have a significant impact on a persons wellbeing, ability to carry out day to day tasks and work. We explore and talk through what stressors you may have in your life and how we can create helpful habits and thought patterns to help you manage them.
We hold a strong belief that Neurodiverse conditions shouldn't be labelled as "needing to be treated". However, our service can offer management and coping strategies to help with difficulties that can be faced with these conditions such as emotional regulation, communication skills and burn out
If what you are going through isn't listed here then don't worry! We still recommend booking a consultation with us as we still might be able to help. We also provide work around Anger management, Trauma, loneliness, relationship difficulties, low self esteem and more.