CBT & EMDR
What is CBT?
There are different types of therapies for people experiencing emotional distress. Such distress often leads to developing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour. With time, it can become more and more difficult to break such cycles.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps to make complex things simpler, to understand what is happening to you and why change is so difficult. It can support you in understanding how the way you think impacts your emotions, affects your body and influences your behaviour. In therapy, we will identify your goals and take the first steps towards improving your mental health. We will find the right tools and practise skills so that with time you can learn how to overcome fear, minimise the distress and manage it independently.
CBT can be helpful if you are experiencing any of the following:
Depression
Generalised Anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Health Anxiety
Social Anxiety
Specific Phobias (for example vomit phobia, fear of driving)
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
Distress related to low self-esteem, perfectionism, loneliness
and more.
Have you got questions about CBT? Please book a 15-minute free consultation to have a chat about this therapy.
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy approach designed for working with distressing or traumatic memories. The theory behind EMDR is that many psychological difficulties are the result of distressing life experiences which have not been stored in memory properly and are said to be unprocessed or blocked. Normal memories are stored by a part of the brain called the hippocampus. You can think of the hippocampus as a sort of librarian which catalogues (processes) events and stores them in the right place. However, some traumatic events (such as accidents, abuse, disasters, or violence) are so overwhelming that the hippocampus doesn’t do its job properly. When this happens memories are stored in their raw, unprocessed, form. These trauma memories are easily triggered, leading them to replay and cause distress over and again. They may need some help to become processed, and EMDR is one way to do so.
Have you got questions about EMDR? Please book a 15-minute free consultation to have a chat about this therapy.
