Therapy Styles
Our counsellor Sarah can provide a range of therapy styles suited to your needs:
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Person-Centred Therapy
Emphasises the importance of creating a therapeutic environment where the client experiences complete acceptance, support, genuineness and empathic understanding.
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Existential Therapy
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on the client's subjective lived experiences to help them live a more authentic and fulfilling life. This approach emphasizes the client's freedom, responsibility, and ability to make choices.
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Narrative Therapy
A type of talk therapy that focuses on the personal stories people create about their lives. It helps them explore these stories, recognise narratives that may be unhelpful or limiting, and re-author them in ways that reflect their values, strengths, and hopes. ​
Family Systems Therapy
Each family member works together with the others to better understand their group dynamic and how their individual actions affect each other and the family unit as a whole. One of the most important premises of family systems therapy is that what happens to one member of a family happens to everyone in the family.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Helps people heal from trauma and other distressing life experiences by reprocessing disturbing memories.  The structured treatment focuses simultaneously on a) an upsetting issue or traumatic memory and its associated thoughts, feelings and sensations, and b) bilateral stimulation that is most commonly in the form of repeated side to side eye movements.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings instead of fighting them, and then commit to actions that are aligned with their personal values. It uses mindfulness and acceptance strategies to build "psychological flexibility," which is the ability to stay in the present moment, be aware of one's thoughts and feelings but without being overwhelmed by them.
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Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)
A short-term, future-oriented approach that helps clients by constructing solutions and focusing on their strengths, rather than analysing problems. 
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy
The Gottman Method is a couple’s therapy approach that aims to improve relationships by building a stronger emotional connection, improving communication, and managing conflict effectively.  It teaches couples skills for building trust and intimacy and addressing specific issues like infidelity, arguments, or distance.