Telehealth Psychological Services

Working with you to identify unhelpful thoughts, emotions, and behaviours and using different behavioural and cognitive techniques to assist. 

CBT may include techniques such as: 

• Exposure
• Activity scheduling 
• Relaxation techniques
• Behaviour modification 
• Replacing unhelpful thoughts with more helpful ones 
• Stress management 
• Social skills training 
• Anger management

A therapeutic approach that focuses on the thoughts, feelings, and sensations of psychological experiences as the target of treatment, rather than on the particular symptoms themselves. 

This therapy includes techniques to assist with:

• Promoting behaviour change through increasing your acceptance of subjective experiences (beliefs, anxiety, distressing thoughts etc.) 
• Moving away from trying to 'control' your subjective experiences, and learning to connect with and understand them instead 
• Identifying your values and how they can translate to behavioural goals 

Schema therapy is an expansion of traditional Cognitive Behavioural therapies.

Schemas are the belief systems you have about yourself, others, and the world around you.

Schemas develop as a result of your early life experiences and are deeply connected to how your basic childhood needs were met.

Schema therapy focuses on:

• Identifying and understanding your personal schemas
• Understanding how your schemas impact your thoughts, feelings and behaviours
• Using CBT strategies to improve and lessen the impact of unhelpful schemas
• Using visualisation techniques to process difficult or traumatic memories

Primarily used in trauma therapy, EMDR focuses on bilateral stimulation such as alternating tapping, right/left eye movement, or other tactile stimulation to recall, reprocess, and release trapped emotional experiences buried in memories. 

During the session, you'll be tracking a certain bilateral movement (such as a light moving side-to-side) whilst recalling a specific traumatic event.

We gradually move towards more positive thoughts during processing to help you resolve the negative feelings and distress associated with the trauma event, and assist the memory to be fully integrated.

EFT emphasises the integral role of emotions in the human experience and addresses how you feel, not simply how you think. 

EFT draws on the empathically attuned relationship with a therapist to help individuals better identify, explore, experience and process their emotions.

EFT can assist with: 

• Letting go of hurt relating to another person 
• Developing a new view and understanding of yourself 
• Increasing your self-acceptance and self-compassion 
• Identifying emotions that can be too strong or too disconnected 
• Using your self-learnings to grow and change 

Skills training within DBT involves teaching you the four basic DBT skills of: 

Mindfulness
Learning to experience life as it is in the moment using a fusion of meditation practices from Eastern and Western philosophies. 

Distress Tolerance
Learning to survive and tolerate distressing situations, urges, and emotions when they can't be improved straight away, and accepting life even if it doesn't look exactly how you want it to.

Emotion Regulation 
Learning to understand your emotions, change your emotional responses, increase your emotional resilience, and manage your emotions in difficult circumstances.

Interpersonal Effectiveness
Learning to manage your interpersonal relationships maintenance, conflict, and overall improvement. 

Helping you understand your personal sensory preferences and sensory processing patterns and how these impact the way you respond to various environments and sensory input.