Therapy Approaches

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a well-established, evidence-based psychological approach that helps people understand how their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours are connected—and how to shift unhelpful patterns to create lasting change.

CBT is not just about talking—it’s a structured and collaborative method that supports you in learning practical skills to manage emotional difficulties more effectively. It's particularly useful for issues like anxiety, low mood, emotional overwhelm, relationship struggles, and unhelpful habits. What makes CBT unique is that it's grounded in extensive research, with decades of clinical evidence supporting its effectiveness.

How CBT Works

CBT is based on the idea that many of our emotional difficulties are influenced by the way we think and the behaviours we repeat, often without realising it. For example:

Unhelpful thought patterns (like catastrophising, all-or-nothing thinking, or harsh self-criticism) can amplify anxiety, guilt, or hopelessness.
Avoidant behaviours (such as withdrawing from situations or people) may feel protective in the short term, but can reinforce fear and reduce confidence over time.

CBT helps you identify and change these patterns. Together, we explore how your mind interprets the world around you, and how those interpretations may be affecting how you feel and act. Importantly, we don't just stay in the theoretical—we work with real-life tools and strategies to help you respond differently in everyday life.

How CBT Can Help You:

Stop spirals of overthinking and emotional overwhelm
Rebuild trust in yourself after relationship trauma
Create more helpful, grounded ways of thinking
Reduce anxiety and reactivity in daily life

Unlike open-ended talk therapy, CBT is collaborative and practical. You’ll leave each session with tools—not just insights. We focus on what you can shift now, so you can begin to feel different, sooner.

What You’ll Learn in CBT

In our sessions, you’ll learn how to:

Notice and challenge thinking patterns that aren’t serving you
Understand how past experiences may be shaping your current reactions
Build healthier responses to stress, conflict, or emotional triggers
Develop coping strategies and build emotional resilience
Strengthen self-trust and inner calm

You’ll also have the opportunity to practice these insights through between-session exercises designed to support change in your daily life. The aim is to equip you with tools you can continue using long after therapy ends—so you’re not just getting better, but staying well.

A Collaborative Process

CBT is tailored to your unique needs. We work together to clarify what’s getting in the way of the life you want to live, and identify which tools will help you most.

While we may briefly touch on the past to understand your emotional blueprint, the focus of CBT is future-oriented—on what you can shift now to feel better and move forward with greater confidence.

Hypnotherapy

The more you understand hypnotherapy, the more effective it is likely to be.

• Hypnosis is a special way of using various naturally-occurring psychological and physiological states. It’s a collaborative process in which you allow yourself to follow the guidance of the therapist by using your imagination to evoke positive emotions and rehearse behaviour change.

• Everyone can, in principle, be hypnotised. It has been shown to help if you relax, think positively, and imagine the things being suggested.

• Hypnotic “trance”, so-called, is an increased ability to respond to positive suggestions, usually

accompanied simply by relaxed attention to the ideas being suggested.

• Hypnosis is definitely not a state of sleep or unconsciousness. Roughly 90% of people report being aware of everything that happens, and relaxation helps but is not essential to hypnosis.

• Hypnosis is definitely NOT a state of mind control. You cannot be made to do anything against your will. On the contrary, normally you must want to accept suggested ideas and actively imagine responding to experience their effects.

• Hypnosis is completely safe when used in a responsible and professional manner. Nobody has ever been “stuck” in hypnosis.

• Comedy stage hypnosis has very little to do with clinical hypnotherapy and has been shown to foster

misconceptions which can prevent people from benefiting from treatment. Take what you see on television with a generous pinch of salt.

• Hypnotic suggestion is a means of experiencing certain helpful ideas at a level profound enough to directly influence our emotions and behaviour.

• Psychological and emotional problems can be seen as the result of negative thinking, whereas

hypnotherapy aims to encourage ("suggest") positive ideas which lead to improvement.

• Hypnotherapy, except for smoking cessation, usually requires more than one session. However, it is probably one of the briefest forms of psychological therapy, and in clinical studies the average number of sessions is around 4-6.

• Hypnosis can help with an enormous range of different issues. Research tends to provide most support for its use in,

1. Anxiety management.

2. Pain management.

3. Overcoming sleep disorders

4. Treating certain psychosomatic or stress-related illnesses.

However, hypnosis is also used to conquer habits such as nail-biting or smoking cigarettes, and for

personal development in areas such as sports performance, public speaking, or creativity.

• Thousands of positive experimental and clinical research studies on hypnosis have been published. It was recognised as an effective treatment by the British Medical Association (BMA) and American Medical Association (AMA) in the 1950s and, more recently, by the American Psychological Association (for obesity) and NICE guidance (for IBS) used by the NHS.

• Hypnosis is essentially a simple, down-to-earth, and common sense therapy. For example, by relaxing, thinking positively, and picturing your goals, hypnosis can help you to progressively improve your habitual feelings and behaviour.

Source: The Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy™

NeuroGraphica®

NeuroGraphica® a science-backed, creative coaching and therapy tool that combines art, psychology, and neuroplasticity. It uses neurographic lines, geometric shapes, and colour to access the deeper parts of your nervous system—beyond what you can often express in words. By drawing in a specific way (algorithms), you’ll begin to access emotional blocks stored beneath conscious awareness—and reshape them into new, healthier pathways.

Each drawing becomes a mirror of your internal experience. As you move through the process, you’re not just making art—you’re making change.

This is especially powerful if you feel stuck in thought loops or find it hard to express complex emotions. You’ll finish with more than just a beautiful image: you’ll walk away with emotional clarity, grounded insight, and a sense of control over your internal world.

The method is simple, accessible, and often surprisingly profound.

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