Above all I believe that the therapeutic relationship between therapist and client is the most important and effective factor in succesful therapy. Plenty of research also backs this up. I therefore pride myself on creating a safe, compassionate, collaborative, authentic and reliable space for you.

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When you decide to work with me, we will create a collaborative understanding of your difficulties, and a tailored plan of how we are going to work on them together, which can be in short, medium or longer-term therapy. 

My approach to psychological therapy is integrative, which means I am trained in and often blend a range of therapeutic approaches, so therapy is tailored to you. I decide which therapies to draw upon depending on the issues you bring to therapy, your preferences and personality, my own expertise, and the evidence-base. I only integrate and draw upon evidence-based therapies. The therapies and approaches I may integrate include:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Humanistic, Existential and Person-Centred Therapies  

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

• Trauma-focused therapies, including Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

• DBT informed-therapy (I am DBT trained but cannot offer full DBT due to not working within a team at this time)

• Individual Mentalization-Based Therapy

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I usually like to contract for between 8-16 sessions with clients, as I feel it is good for everyone to have a timeframe to work towards. If we both feel it's needed we can extend beyond this of course, but I find working to an approximate time frame helps both myself and the client to focus, and means you can budget for therapy more effectively.