Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) gets its name from one of its core messages: accept what is out of our personal control, and commit to actions that improve and enrich your life.

ACT supports you to develop skills to deal with painful thoughts and feelings so they have less impact and influence. ACT also helps you get clear about what's most important to you by starting with your values and then using those to guide, inspire and motivate change for the better.

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CBT is designed to explore your underlying thought processes so you can better understand how they affect your behaviour. This equips you to change your thought processes, so they serve you better and change negative behaviour. This approach may incorporate techniques such as role-playing or journaling to bring insights into thought patterns.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can help when you've found it a struggle to learn other methods for self-management skills. It helps you and your therapist balance and incorporate acceptance and change-oriented strategies.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can help you with emotional and cognitive regulation. It is a way to learn about triggers that lead to reactive states and assess which coping skills can help you avoid undesired reactions in a sequence of events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

As its name indicates, eclectic therapy is a therapeutic approach that incorporates a variety of therapeutic principles (tools) and philosophies to create the ideal treatment programme for each person.

Eclectic therapists employ elements from a range of therapeutic techniques instead of insisting upon strict adherence to one particular approach or school of thought. This establishes a course that is personally tailored to suit you.

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The theory behind EMDR is that traumatic or difficult memories make changes in the brain. These changes stop the mind from processing information properly and may cause issues such as anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts and memories, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), and Complex Trauma/C-PTSD.

EMDR can help 'rewire' the way people experience their problems, reducing their impact and freeing the person to heal and experience a more full life. Experts believe that processing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and memories in a safe and measured environment while performing rapid eye movements helps a person begin to tolerate and co-exist more peacefully with disquieting feelings and physical sensations.

EMDR was first used for people experiencing traumatic memories/PTSD and CPTSD. It is now helping people experiencing phobias, anxiety, chronic pain, depression and more.

A genogram is a visual relationship mapping tool. Traditionally, a genogram maps out up to three generations of family connections but can also include a wider current and past, romantic and social relationships.

Like family trees, a genogram documents history but goes beyond to capture in-depth details about relational functioning and processes.

It's a useful tool to reveal and bring an understanding of historical patterns that may impact current issues, behaviours, relationships and functioning.

IDT is a creative process of disclosure and discovery that allows you to express yourself through drawing. It is especially helpful if you're struggling to articulate your thoughts and feelings.

Your therapist can help you decode the nonverbal messages, symbols, and metaphors that arise in your art. In turn, this helps you to better understand your feelings and behaviour, so you can move on to resolve deeper issues.

Mindfulness is a way to step back and notice what the mind is thinking and the body is feeling as though you were observing these rather than being involved in them mindlessly.

Learning to do this allows you to choose how you wish to experience these processes and make changes. Meditation is one technique that can help you to develop mindfulness.

Narrative therapy views people as separate from their problems. This allows you to get some distance from an issue to see how it might actually be helping them or protecting them more than it is hurting them. This new perspective can help you be empowered to make changes in thought patterns and behaviour. It can support you to 'rewrite' your life story for a future that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, and what your purpose is, separate from any problems.

Person-centred therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows you to take more of a lead in discussions so you discover your own solutions. The therapist acts as a compassionate facilitator, listening without judgment. They'll acknowledge the client's experience without moving the conversation in another direction. Your therapist will be there to encourage and support the client through the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering with your process of self-discovery

The aim of psychotherapy is to bring unconscious or deeply buried thoughts and feelings to the conscious mind. Then, experiences and emotions that may be forgotten about can be brought to the surface and examined. Working together, the therapist will work with you to look at how these forgotten memories affect thinking, behaviour, and relationships.

Solution-focused Brief Therapy concentrates on finding solutions in the present time and exploring one's hopes for the future to find quicker resolution of problems. It aims for more speed than traditional forms of therapy that take time to analyse problems, pathology and past life events.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy assumes you know what you need to do to improve your own life and are capable of finding the best solutions with the appropriate coaching and questioning.

PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and complex trauma (C-PTSD) may come about from a single traumatic experience, multiple or prolonged exposures. You may experience trauma through neglect, bullying or medical issues; abuse of a sexual, physical, emotional or vicarious nature; a disaster that is natural, man-made or technological; war or terrorism.

A three-staged approach to trauma therapy brings together a variety of therapeutic approaches.

Stage 1 focuses on engaging and resourcing you with skills to provide safety and stability.
Stage 2 focuses on applying previously learned coping skills whilst working through the traumatic memories.
Stage 3 consolidates what you've learned, so you have strategies to enhance your personal and relational wellbeing.