Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the recommended talking therapy for depression and most anxiety disorders.
CBT focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes affect your emotions and behaviour. This is based on the idea that the way you think about situations can affect the way you feel and act.
CBT aims to help you deal with overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts and addressing these. We will work to identify and challenge the negative thinking patterns and behaviour which may be causing you difficulties and distress. This can then change how you feel about situations, and help you to change your behaviour in future.
CBT is likely to focus on what is going on in your life at the moment, but may also look at your past, to think about how your previous experiences impact the way you view and respond to the world and other people.
CBT requires you to practice skills outside of therapy sessions so that you can consistently apply these to your everyday life and make practical changes.
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It is a type of psychotherapy that helps to identify any distressing past experiences that are 'stuck' and causing problems in our current lives.
EMDR is mainly used to help with symptoms resulting from traumatic events, such as a road accident, a physical attack or the unexpected loss of a loved one. It is most commonly used for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but increasingly used to address problems such as anxiety, addictions, grief and anger. EMDR is a way of allowing the brain to process information quickly and fully, leading to lasting change and reduced distress.
EMDR can be used as a stand-alone treatment or in addition to CBT if it is felt that this would be most helpful. We can discuss these options during the assessment phase and decide together what the best course of treatment could be, alongside clinical guidance.
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