Person-centred therapy, or client-centred therapy, is a type of psychotherapy that emphasises your subjective experience and your innate capacity for self-awareness and personal growth. As your therapist, I focus on your needs and offer a conducive environment for you to make decisions independently. Based on the theory of Carl Rogers, person-centred therapy is rooted in the belief that the person has all the answers from within to thrive – so as your therapist, I help empower you to find the answers.

Person-centred therapy comes under the humanistic umbrella – and humanistic psychology believes we all contain untapped potential. Person-centred therapy helps facilitate your self actualisation, allowing you to develop solutions to your problems and reach your full potential. You actively take control during each therapy session, while I act as a source of support where you feel heard and understood. You focus on maximising your ability to find solutions during the therapeutic process, which encourages positive change within yourself.

The goals of this practice include increasing self-awareness, self esteem, and self-acceptance, leading to improved emotional resilience and more meaningful relationships with others. The three core conditions of person-centred therapy are genuineness, empathetic understanding and unconditional positive regard. The focus is on the present rather than dwelling on the past and is an effective tool for managing difficult situations such as trauma related events. The non-directive nature of person-centred therapy encourages you to be more independent in finding the answers yourself.

CBT is a therapy technique that aims to help you find new ways to behave by changing your thought patterns. CBT works on the assumption that the way you think and interpret life events affects how you behave and feel. Sessions focus on exploring and developing methods to deal with challenges and behaviours that arise from day to day. It is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on your thoughts, attitudes and beliefs – and how it affects your actions and feelings.

The focus of CBT is primarily on moving forward to develop more effective ways of coping with life. CBT is a short-term, goals orientated therapy and very effective for a variety of issues - it works on the concept that our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are all interconnected. CBT teaches you how to improve your negative patterns by changing how you think, behave, and feel. CBT uses many techniques to identify and evaluate unhelpful thinking. It enables you to deal with overwhelming problems more positively by breaking them down into smaller parts.

Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand how your past experiences and your unconscious mind and impulses shape your current feelings and behaviour. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are self-awareness and an understanding of the influence of the past on present behaviour. Psychotherapy aims to bring the unconscious mind into consciousness.

As your therapist, I provide a safe space for you to talk freely and honestly without being judged, where the patterns of what's in your unconscious begin to come through, and we explore what that means together.

A key concept in the psychodynamic approach is transference - where you redirect the feelings you have previously experienced onto me to provide insight. Transference helps you learn more about your feelings, behaviours and actions, and with these insights, you can change negative patterns to help you move forward.

NLP is a set of principles and techniques aimed at enhancing self awareness, increasing confidence, building communication skills and motivating positive actions.

NLP is intended to help you understand your own mind and how you come to think and behave the way you do. With the aid of NLP techniques, you can learn to manage your moods and emotions and reprogram the way you process information.

At the same time, NLP is designed to help you see why you have been successful in the past and determine how you can most easily and efficiently repeat that success in other areas of your life.

NLP therapists believe that you have the answers to your problems within yourself - it is simply a matter of helping you draw out those answers.

Hypnotherapy is a more solution-focused approach: people come with a specific issue that they want to resolve as quickly as possible. Hypnosis used in a therapeutic setting is a very powerful intervention and can be used for a variety of issues such as fears and phobias, anxiety and stress and addictions.

Hypnotherapy helps us to access parts of the mind that usually remain hidden throughout our waking life, and tapping into this an speed the healing process up significantly. Most people experience hypnotherapy as an enjoyable process in which they can sit back and relax while their mind takes in positive suggestions.

Hypnotherapy helps us to bypass the busyness of the conscious mind and get to the root of the issues in a deeply relaxing way. As a therapy, hypnosis is usually shorter-term than counselling.