Therapy Services
Counselling
During a session, with your therapist may take you through specific exercises designed to help with your problem, or you might have more general discussions about how you’re feeling. What you talk about will vary depending on what you want help with and the therapist’s approach. The therapist’s job is to be impartial but understanding. They will listen to you without judgment and help you explore your thoughts and emotions. They may offer information, but they won’t tell you what you should think or do.
Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)
Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is an approach that suggests the ways we think and interpret situations are important in how we feel and behave. It proposes we often have unhelpful negative or unrealistic ideas about ourselves and the world around us that can make us feel low, anxious, or upset.
Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) is a ‘talking therapy’ like counseling, but it is more structured and places greater emphasis on techniques to understand why we feel the way we do and then to make changes accordingly. This often means clients undertaking specific tasks or activities outwith sessions, such as keeping a note of situations that seem to invoke feelings of distress (such as anxiety) or trying out new ways of doing things to see if what we believe/fear actually comes true. These are called ‘experiments’.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is a combination of cognitive therapy and meditation techniques. It has been specifically developed to reduce relapse and recurrence of depression. It also has been shown to help people with anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and insomnia.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy will look at patterns and themes and explore how they link to a range of things about you and your personality, such as how you grew up, some of the challenges you have faced in life, and may look at the coping strategies you’ve developed to cope with difficulties The aim of this kind of focus is to enable change through understanding the underlying causes of what is going wrong and enabling you to develop alternative ways of thinking and behaving.
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Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach that incorporates positive psychology principles and practices and helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFT is a hope-friendly, positive emotion eliciting, a future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
SFT can often be used in combination with the forms of therapy.
Online Services
The majority of my clients now meet online over zoom for our main sessions and use WhatsApp for sharing thoughts and completing homework tasks.
Online therapy means you don’t have to travel anywhere to get the help you need, saving you time and money. Often clients are more comfortable in their own homes.
The Ideal setup for online therapy is when the client uses both a computer. laptop or iPad and a mobile phone. That way we can have one device to see each other on, and one to share documents and pictures. However many clients just use their phones and find that works well.
For online sessions, it is important that you can find a private space where you will not be disturbed.
Face-to-Face Services
If you are based in Hailsham or Eastbourne then I do offer face-to-face sessions.
Face-to-face sessions are attended in person, all clients know they coming to a safe and dependable address and to a familiar room which becomes part of a routine. For some clients, this routine becomes an important part of their life. The sounds, smells and tastes also become an important part of the process.
(We are a dog household, with two dogs living at the address, so sessions may not be suitable for those that have a fear of dogs)
Walking Therapies
Walking Therapy offers an innovative and holistic approach to counselling that equips clients with the tools they need to become more solution-focused. Taking place within a naturally therapeutic outdoor setting, it combines physical exercise with counselling, psychotherapy, mindfulness and coaching. As such Walking Therapy is proven to help clients reduce blood pressure, reduce risk of diabetes, improve strategic thinking, enhance creativity, reduce anxiety, alleviate stress, improve anger issues and reduce levels of depression.
Most walking clients prefer longer sessions, with longer gaps between sessions, or used as a combination with online or face-to-face therapies. Walking times can vary from an hour session (normally along the Cuckoo trail in Hailsham) to 4-hour walks across the Sussex Downs.