Redland Psychology Services
My Services
Through my work I aim to help individuals, adults and emerging adults (young people from the age of 16) achieve well-being, using an integrated approach, blending the therapies I have trained in to meet the individual needs of each of my clients. I adapt my therapeutic approach to each client’s needs to provide each client with a personalised therapeutic journey.
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Having difficult or strong emotions is part of the human experience, however, it is when this impacts on our ability to engage with life in a meaningful way that we may need help in finding a way forward, whether that be through adjustment, acceptance, compassion, making changes, or all of these.
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I have worked in several mental health settings including neuropsychology and rehabilitation, mental and physical health services, learning disabilities and older people’s services. I have worked with emergency services, veterans, and people on the Autism Spectrum. I am not offering neurodiversity assessments at present.
Therapies
As a clinical psychologist I offer a personalised bespoke service to my clients, blending different therapy techniques depending on the person’s needs
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a practical approach to change for common concerns such as general and social anxiety, panic, phobias, obsessive compulsive problems, anger, and depression. It focuses on changing the way people think and behave and the effects on the way people feel. It teaches coping skills for dealing with different problems. For more information on this therapy please visit the BABCP for more information.
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Please see this video link for a brief explanation.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR helps to process memories and the feelings attached to them into a more manageable form. It can be helpful to process strong emotions, nightmares, flashbacks, and avoidance. It can be used for a range of situations including childhood events, such as adverse childhood experiences such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and emotional deprivation, bullying, health conditions, and car accidents, and complicated bereavements.
For more information on this therapy visit:
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Compassion focused therapy
Compassion focussed therapy, or CFT, has been developed over the past four decades by Professor Paul Gilbert, to help people who experience difficulties managing their emotions, crippling shame, and self-criticism. The therapeutic approach is informed by a wide range of theories and research such as Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience, and biopsychosocial models of human distress. The therapy uses a range of exercises in order to cultivate compassion within ourselves; to engage with inner warmth, safeness and soothing, compassion and self-compassion. Some of the approaches find their origin in well-established eastern practices and traditions, specifically Buddhism, (Gilbert, 2010). For more information on this therapy please visit Psychology Today or The Compassionate Mind Foundation websites for more information. There are also a number of videos available which are listed in the resource section to that can help understand various aspects of Compassion focused therapy.
Schema Therapy
This was developed by Jeffrey Young as a treatment for use with people who struggle with other traditional forms of therapy and difficulties with relationships with themselves and other people. It makes use of a combination of techniques from CBT, Psychoanalytic Therapy, attachment theory, mindfulness, and Gestalt Therapy. For more information on this therapy please visit The International Schema Therapy Institute.
Acceptance and commitment therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy is a form of behavioural therapy that has been developed within a good theoretical and philosophical framework which uses a combination and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavioural change strategies to increase psychological well-being making use of a person’s values. For more information on this therapy please visit the Contextual Science website.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness means knowing directly what is going on inside and outside ourselves, moment by moment in a non-judgemental way. Becoming more aware of the present moment has been shown to help us to enjoy the world around us more and understand ourselves better. When we become more aware of the present moment, we begin to experience afresh things that we have been taking for granted (Williams, 2011). For more information on this therapy please visit the Mindful website.
