Types of Therapy Articles
by Andrea Blundell Been diagnosed with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or sure it’s your issue? What is an ADHD coach, and can one work for you? [Not sure if you do or don’t have adult ADHD? Try our free quiz now.] What is an ADHD coach? Coaching is a professional partnership that helps you...
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is currently one of the most popular types of talk therapy in the UK and also one of the most evidence-based (1). But what’s it all about? And what actually happens when you go to CBT counselling? Writer Andrea Blundell shares her personal experience of trying CBT. How I ended up trying...
Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton said, “all the world’s problems can be solved in a garden”. Could horticultural therapy even be the answer to mental health issues? Writer Elizabeth Waddington explores. What is horticultural therapy? Steven Davis, the executive director of the American Horticultural Therapy Association, defines it as: “a process through which plants, gardening activities,...
Rapid eye movement therapy, officially called ‘eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing’ or ‘EMDR’, was developed to help people who have experienced trauma. Fairly new, it’s already evidence-based. And it’s increasingly popular here in the UK. But what is it actually like to try? Are the rumours about flashing lights true? Writer Jo Love shares her...
Curious about hypnotherapy? And wondering if it could work for you? But heard so many strange rumours, you’ve been asking yourself, “But does hypnosis work?”. Myths about hypnotherapy Of all modern therapeutic interventions, hypnotherapy and the trance state it uses, ‘hypnosis’, are perhaps surrounded by the most confusion and incorrect information. Learn the myths about...
An educational psychologist might sound intimidating, but they can be a great help to you and your family. What is an educational psychologist? Educational psychologists could be seen as ‘learning experts’. They focus on the ways people best learn, and how learning can be adjusted so that the material in question is understood, retained, and...
Intrigued by the idea of hypnotherapy, but have doubts it could work for you? Or worried if it is safe? Read on. What is hypnotherapy? Hypnotherapy is really what it sounds like — hypnosis meets therapy. Hypnosis involves entering a heightened state of awareness called a ‘trance state’. In this state you feel very relaxed...
Are you interested in a therapy that focuses on what is right and not just ‘wrong’ with you? And that lets you decide what to talk about? Person-centred therapy (also called ‘client-centred therapy’, or ‘Rogerian therapy’, after its founder), might be for you. [Would you like to try person-centred therapy? Book one of our Skype...
Trauma, whether recent or from childhood, can leave us very sensitive. Things which might not upset others will trigger our body’s memory of trauma, leaving us a mess. So trauma therapy needs to take this into account. Instead of assuming regular therapy will work for your complex trauma or PTSD? Consider the following types of...
Did you have a parent who struggled to give you the unconditional love and safety you needed as a child? Do you find that now, as an adult, you have difficult relationships? Or struggle to trust others? Reparenting might be a therapy tool for you. *Note that this article refers to psychotherapeutic reparenting, not any...
