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Modalities
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Modalities
Your choice of therapy model may be restricted depending on where and how you access it. If you have a strong preference, you may wish to discuss this with your therapist prior to starting the therapy process. I, like most therapists, blend therapeutic approaches and tailor an integrated/pluralistic approach to each individual client. Your relationship with your therapist however, is generally considered more important than the approach they use.
Using pluralistic method I look at the whole person, taking into account your mental, physical and emotional needs. I then use techniques and tools from different modalities to tailor an individual approach for you, while aiming to build a trusting and non judgmental relationship that helps you develop self awareness. Bringing you attention to triggers for your thoughts, feelings and behaviour, I help you set goals and develop new behaviours to increase your sense of fulfilment in life so that you be confident in fully expressing yourself and living authentic life.
The Following Are The Approaches I Use In My Work With The Clients.
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Person-Centered Therapy
Humanistic approach, it underpins all my work. The Person or client-centred therapy is grounded in the view that each of us has the capacity and desire for personal growth and change, given the right conditions. The therapist does not act as an expert or direct the therapy, instead, they offer unconditional positive regard (accepting and valuing you), empathy (understanding and connecting with your feelings) and congruence (being honest and transparent in how they relate to your world) to help you come to terms with any negative feelings and to change and develop in your own way. You decide on the issues you bring to the session and lead the direction of therapy.
Existential Therapy
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), often described as a third wave CBT, prioritizes the holistic promotion of our internal processes associated with health and well-being over the reduction or elimination of psychological and emotional symptoms, although symptoms often reduce as a result. In this approach, clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions. Instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations and should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, and focus on value rather than goal oriented living, clients begin to accept their adversities and commit to making necessary changes in their behaviour, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Developed from Freud’s approach to Psychoanalysis, it puts emphases on the importance of the unconscious and past experience in influencing current behaviour. It involves examining your emotions, relationships, and thought patterns, bringing the unconscious into consciousness. This means exploring the impact of early life and childhood, uncovering ‘defence mechanisms’ which are used to avoid painful feelings and experiences and exploring feelings and patterns in relationships with others, including within the therapeutic relationship. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are client self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behaviour.
Art Therapy
Art therapy is a modality which uses the creative process of making art to explore and communicate issues, feelings and emotions which may be too difficult or distressing to express in words. It can also be used to relieve stress, improve your mental wellbeing and increase self-awareness or an ability to cope. You don’t have to be an artist, have experience of making art or special talents to engage with this type of therapy. Visual art therapy can include but is not limited to drawing, painting and photography and is used with clients of all ages.
Narrative Therapy
Developed in 1980s, this form of therapy views people as separate from their problems and damaging or unhelpful behaviours. This allows clients to get some remoteness from the difficulty they face to see how the behaviour they engage in, might actually be helping or protecting them, more than it is hurting them. Engaging with this collaborative and non-pathologizing perspective, individuals feel more empowered to change their relationship with the problems influencing their lives. Making changes to their thought patterns and behaviour and “rewriting” their life story for a future that reflects who they really are is a way of working that considers the broader context of people’s lives particularly in the various dimensions of diversity.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
This therapy promotes positive change, present and future focused, rather than fixing on past problems. In therapy, you will be encouraged to focus positively on what you do well, set goals and work out how to achieve them. Being a practical, goal-driven model, a mark of SFBT is its emphasis on clear, concise, realistic goal identification. Just three or four sessions may be beneficial.
Transactional Analysis
Transactional analysis is a wide-ranging approach which incorporates aspects of humanistic, cognitive-behavioural and psychodynamic therapy. It groups the human personality into three states – Parent, Adult and Child – which can help you understand how you interact with others. In therapy, you might also look at how your beliefs and the way you interpret your environment can create repeated and challenging patterns of behaviour, and will start the work on how to influence change.
Coaching
Coaching facilitates you achieving more complete self-awareness, better self-management skills and improved self-efficacy, so that you can develop your own goals and solutions to existing problems. Coaching is a collaborative process, which accentuates and builds on your existing and developing skills and abilities. It is often focused on supporting you in making changes, either to your current situation or to your near and distant future. I predominantly follow the GROW model but additionally integrate other therapeutic approaches in my work.