Pharmacological Therapies

  • Antidepressants
  • Anti-anxiety
  • Mood stabiliser medication
  • Antimanic medication
  • Antipsychotic medication
  • Medication to help you sleep
  • Stimulant medication

Talking Therapies Available

When deciding on an appropriate counsellor or psychotherapist, it can be useful to understand the different therapies they may use. Although all can be effective, you may find one approach more appealing than another, or find that some approaches are better for a certain area of counselling or psychotherapy than others.

EMDR

Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro that emphasises the role of distressing memories in some mental health disorders, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is an evidence-based therapy used to help with the symptoms of PTSD and trauma.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. It is most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression, but can be useful for other mental and physical health problems.

Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

CAT stands for Cognitive Analytic Therapy; a collaborative programme for looking at the way a person thinks, feels and acts, and the events and relationships that underlie these experiences (often from childhood or earlier in life). As its name suggests, it brings together ideas and understanding from different therapies into one user-friendly and effective therapy.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) gets its name from one of its core messages: accept what is out of your personal control, and commit to action that improves and enriches your life.

Family Therapy

Family and Systemic Psychotherapy – helps people in a close relationship help each other. It enables family members, couples and others who care about each other to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, to understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on strengths and make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.

Couple Counselling

Marriage counselling, also called couples therapy, is a type of psychotherapy. Marriage counselling helps couples of all types recognise and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a type of therapy used to treat emotional problems and mental health conditions. It allows you to look deeper into your problems and worries, and deal with troublesome habits and a wide range of mental disorders, such as depression and schizophrenia.

Integrative Therapy

Integrative therapy, or integrative counselling is a combined approach to psychotherapy that brings together different elements of specific therapies. Integrative therapists take the view that there is no single approach that can treat each client in all situations.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was designed specifically to help people who are prone to recurring depression. It combines mindfulness techniques like meditation, breathing exercises and stretching, with elements from cognitive therapy to help break the negative thought patterns that are characteristic of recurrent depression.

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT)

Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is a kind of psychotherapy designed to help those who suffer from high levels of self-criticism and shame. It helps you to learn how to feel kinder towards yourself and others, and to feel safe and capable in a world that can seem overwhelming.

Solutions Focussed Therapy

Solution-focused brief therapy is an approach to psychotherapy based on solution-building rather than problem-solving. It explores current resources and future hopes rather than present problems and past causes.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

A talking therapy designed to help individuals with a borderline personality disorder to manage their emotions as well as self-harm behaviours.