1:1 therapy
What is cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT)?
CBT is a structured psychological therapy that explores the relationship between our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and the patterns that can sometimes keep difficulties going.
CBT is both exploratory and practical. It gives you space to understand and make sense of what’s happening for you while also helping you develop new skills and make changes in your everyday life.
Generalised anxiety and excessive worry
Depression and low mood
Social anxiety
Separation anxiety
Health anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Phobias and fears, including emetophobia
PTSD or single incident trauma
Low self-esteem
What can cbt help with?
Therapy isn’t about me telling you what you should think, feel or do. And it isn’t about handing you a worksheet and sending you on your way!
We’ll start by understanding what’s happening, what you’d like to change, and what may be keeping the difficulty going. Where useful, we’ll consider how past experiences may have shaped the way you respond to yourself, other people, and the world around you. From there, we’ll develop a bespoke treatment plan based on your goals and individual needs.
This might involve changing behaviours, gradually facing things you’ve been avoiding, exploring new ways of responding to difficult thoughts and feelings, or building practical skills to manage symptoms.
Whatever we do in therapy, always remember: you are in the driving seat!
What does therapy with me look like?
Your thoughts don’t exist in a vacuum!
CBT isn’t about simply “thinking positively” or telling you that your difficulties would disappear if you simply changed your mindset.
Our thoughts and feelings are shaped by our experiences, relationships, circumstances and the world around us. They are not ‘wrong’. I’ll consider your difficulties within the context of you and your lived experience, including factors such as culture, identity, disability, neurodivergence, and social circumstances.
Sometimes therapy involves challenging patterns that aren’t serving you. Sometimes it involves recognising that your response makes sense given what you’ve experienced, and working out how you want to respond now.
The aim isn’t to make you ‘fit’ the world - it’s to understand what’s happening and help you decide, in the power of knowledge, what to do next.