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Models of Therapy
The way we work varies from therapist to therapist and includes;
Psychodynamic counselling/psychotherapy
Psychodynamic therapy comes from psychoanalysis and the work of Freud and subsequent theorists who have developed many of the concepts. If focuses on the importance of unconcious processes and past experiences as central in understanding current feelings and behaviour. It uses the relationship with the therapist to understand how these unconcious patterns are transferred from the earliest childhood relationships into current relationships. As the individual becomes more aware of these unconcious motivations and how they influence relationships, self worth, defence mechanisms, intimacy, anxiety, change becomes possible.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the thoughts that control feelings and behaviour. It encourages thinking about oneself in relations to other people and the world and the ways in which thoughts and feelings affect actions and vice versa. The focus is on changing the links which connect the thought to the feeling and then to the action enabling negative thoughts to be transformed into more positive ones. CBT can be effective for anxiety, phobias, obsessions, compulsive disorders, depression, bereavement, OCD and many psychiatric disorders.
Person Centred Counselling/Psychotherapy
Person Centred counselling was developed by Carl Rogers. He believed that the individual has the ability and strength to heal himself providing the therapist creates an environment of empathy, genuineness and acceptance. The power of the human being to achieve this healing is fundamental to Person Centred Therapy.
Integrative counselling psychotherapy
Integrative Therapy tends to use several models of psychotherapy or counselling together, depending on the difficulty expressed by the individual, rather than separate models of theory.
Transactional Analysis
Transactional Analysis is a way of understanding how we continue to relate to others and the world through patterns we developed in childhood - which may have served a useful survival purpose back then but now may be destructive and damaging. An awareness of these patterns enables change and a more effective and mature way of relating.
'The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most
intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother,
to become fully independent' Erich Fromm