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I am committed to providing a high quality CBT service based on best practice and the very latest research. I offer a rapid, discreet, flexible service which prioritises my clients and their needs.

I work with teenagers and adults experiencing difficulties in the areas listed below:

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Depression can affect your thinking, energy, feelings and behaviour. It can vary from mild to severe and can prove disabling in some cases, impacting on your family and work life. The aim of cognitive behavioural therapy is to help you realise that you can influence your mood by identifying and changing your thoughts and beliefs. Cognitive therapy focuses on discovering and challenging unhelpful assumptions and beliefs, and developing helpful and balanced thoughts. When feeling depressed one tends to feel lethargic and unmotivated. Those who are depressed often stay at home and avoid going out and interacting with people. As such, they may miss out on opportunities that help lift their mood. Behaviour therapy aims to identify and change aspects of behaviour that may perpetuate or worsen mood. Cognitive Behaviour therapy can help you learn the skills that will enable you to manage mood swings and anger. Use of skills learnt will also enable you to identify triggers and prevent relapse going forward.

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy as used in the Treatment of Anxiety and Stress.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective forms of therapy developed to treat anxiety disorders. CBT focuses directly on identifying and changing the behaviours and thoughts that feed an anxiety disorder.

CBT offers a very efficient treatment (much less time consuming) that will enable you to feel in control of the anxiety and stress rather than the anxiety controlling you.

CBT can help you uncover the underlying causes of your worries and fears; learn how to relax; look at situations in new, less frightening ways; and develop better coping and problem-solving skills. Therapy gives you the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to use them.

There are many effective CBT techniques used to treat Anxiety and Stress including but not limited to:

  • progressive muscle relaxation
  • diaphragmatic breathing
  • rational thinking
  • exposure therapy
  • desensitization

CBT can be used alone or in combination with medication. For further information on a specific anxiety Disorder click on

The goals of treatment with CBT will vary according to the client’s individual needs, problems and previous history. Whereas AA views total abstinence as this treatment objective, CBT has found that clients prefer setting their own goals, and that way may be more willing to achieve them.

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Eating disorders can effect people form all walks of life and can have devastating effects on a persons’ health. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT, is the leading evidence-based treatment for adults with eating disorders and has also been adapted for use with younger clients. It is based on the theory that a person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are interconnected and can be restructured to support new, healthier thoughts and actions. CBT will help you to examine which specific factors are maintaining your disorder and to set personalised goals that will be addressed throughout treatment.

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Self-esteem problems commonly helped with CBT include: work related problems, communication, assertiveness, relationship issues, self-identity, body image, sexual issues, presentation etc.

Sessions will help you to understand how low self-esteem develops and what keeps it going, and then help you to make changes in your self-image so that you begin to feel more confident and accepting of yourself.

All relationship problems stem from poor communication skills. Relationship problems can include partner not prioritising a relationship, an affair, inappropriate use of pornography or the internet, financial difficulties, separation or conflict.

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ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyper-activity Disorder) is characterised by an inability to sustain attention, impulsivity and hyperactivity

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) exists with or without hyperactivity. In most cases people with this disorder are often easily distracted, have particular difficulty commencing and switching tasks and a very short attention span. They may fail to make effective use of the feedback they receive and have weak listening skills.

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