"Mental Health and Emotional Issues Treatments at the clinic".

Child / Adolescent play is with imagination and fantasy and is the child's natural medium of self-expression and one that gives cues about the child's conscious and unconscious states. Using creative mediums to bring about  change for children.

Couple and Relationship Counselling is a type of psychotherapy for couples that tries to resolve problems in the relationship. Typically, two people attend counselling sessions together to discuss specific issues.

Counselling is a safe and confidential* collaboration between counsellor and client to promote mental health and well-being, enhance self-understanding, and resolve identified concerns. Clients are active participants in the counselling process at every stage.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is often abbreviated to CBT, it is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, behaviour and responses are interconnected. CBT can help work through problems that cause you to feel overwhelmed, trapped, negative and panicked, by breaking down emotions, physical sensations and unhelpful thinking styles finding more positive ways of being. There is generally some homework for clients to work through in-between sessions.

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy.Cognitive behavioral therapy tries to identify and change negative thinking patterns and pushes for positive behavioral changes. DBT may be used to treat suicidal and other self-destructive behaviours

When we experience something that is traumatic, it gets stored in the brain  in a way that we may believe and feel that it will happen again at any moment. Anything can trigger the feelings and transport us back to the event and the brain reacts as if the initial event is happening again. EMDR helps to move the storage of that memory to a more functional part of the brain that can experience the event of actually being in the past

This type of treatment brings family groups together to find better ways of being, its future focused, gives validation of feelings and encourages the family to listen to each other so that everyone feels validated and go forward in a more positive way, help sort out issues that are causing problems within the family.

Integrative counselling involves the adaption and incorporation of various evidence based techniques used in other counselling models and approaches to address multiple facets of the client’s difficulties.

Hypnotherapy attempts to address the subconscious mind, using the power of suggestion for beneficial change. A hypnotherapist uses hypnosis to give relevant, positive beneficial suggestions to help a person bring about the change they desire.

Psychotherapy covers a wide range of psychological approaches and methods including; Person Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT, Art Therapy, Trauma Therapy EMDR and Group work.   Psychotherapeutic interventions help people to manage distress, develop positive copying strategies and improve overall mental health, well-being and flourishing.

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