MY APPROACH

Integrative Psychotherapy

Integrative Psychotherapy represents an attempt to combine ideas and strategies from more than one theoretical approach. These approaches include mixing core beliefs and combining proven techniques. This also means that I go at my clients pace and can draw on lots of different strategies at the same time.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT focuses on modifying everyday thoughts and behaviors, with the aim of positively influencing emotions. I help my clients recognise distorted thinking and learn to replace unhealthy thoughts with more realistic substitute ideas. Cognitive Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, has become widely used to treat various kinds of neuroses and psychopathology, including mood disorders and anxiety disorders.

The objectives of CBT typically are to identify irrational or maladaptive thoughts, assumptions and beliefs that are related to debilitating negative emotions and to identify how they are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply not helpful. This is done in an effort to reject the distorted cognitions and to replace them with more realistic and self-helping alternatives.

Person-Centered Therapy (PCT)

PCT is also known as Client-centered therapy or Rogerian Psychotherapy. The basic elements of the therapy are to have a more personal relationship with my client to help my client reach a state of realisation that he or she can help themselves. This is achieved by pushing the patient towards growth, and there is a great stress on the immediate situation rather than the past. This way my client is able to use the therapy as a way to reach a better sense of self, rather than living in an irrational world.

Person-centered therapy is used to help a person achieve personal growth and/or come to terms with a specific event or problem they are having. PCT is based on the principle of talking therapy and is a non-directive approach. I encourage the client to express their feelings and do not suggest how the person might wish to change, but by using specific techniques my client is then able to decide what kind of changes they would like to make and he or she can then achieve personal growth.

Psychodynamics

The original concept of "psychodynamics" was developed by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. In general, psychodynamics, also known as dynamic psychology, is the study of the interrelationship of various parts of the mind, personality, or psyche as they relate to mental, emotional, or motivational forces especially at the unconscious level. The mental forces involved in psychodynamics are often divided into two parts:

• (a) interaction of emotional forces: the interaction of the emotional and motivational forces that affect behavior and mental states, especially on a subconscious level
• (b) inner forces affecting behavior: the study of the emotional and motivational forces that affect behavior and states of mind.

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