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What Is EMDR Therapy?
What is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy, how do sessions unfold and when is it used?
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Why Go to Therapy?
Therapy isn't only for moments of crisis. On what therapy is, who it can help and how the process works.
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Schema Therapy
An integrative approach that focuses on understanding and changing patterns of feeling, thinking and relating (schemas) that form in childhood and repeat in adulthood.
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Filial Therapy
An approach in which parents learn, with the therapist's guidance, to hold special play sessions with their child, aiming to strengthen the bond between parent and child.
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EMDR Therapy
A structured therapy method that helps the mind reprocess distressing memories, carried out with bilateral stimulation such as eye movements.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
One of the most extensively researched therapy approaches: it looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and moves forward with concrete goals and skills.
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Child-Centred Play Therapy
An approach in which children express their feelings and experiences through play, their natural language, within a safe therapeutic relationship.
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What Is the Abandonment Schema?
The abandonment schema shows itself in close relationships through anxiety, jealousy and clinging behaviour. Its signs, its origins and the therapy process.
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How Are Phobias Treated?
What is a phobia, an excessive fear of an object or situation? What types are there, and how are phobias worked on in therapy?
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What Causes Panic Attacks?
A racing heart, shortness of breath and the fear of “what if it happens again”: the symptoms of panic attacks, the beliefs underneath them and how they are worked on in therapy.
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The “I Must Always Be Strong” Belief: The Invisible Weight of the Burden
The belief that “I must always be strong” looks like resilience from the outside, while loneliness and burnout build up inside. Where this belief comes from and how to loosen it.
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The Hidden Messages Beneath Arguments
Arguments in relationships are rarely about small things; they are often the language of unmet emotional needs. How to read the messages beneath them.
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Ways to Recover from Depression
Depression is common, but you don't have to go through it alone. The symptoms of depression, its risk factors and the steps that support recovery.
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What Is Social Anxiety?
What is social anxiety disorder, the fear of being judged by others and embarrassed? How can you recognise it, and what happens in therapy?
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Panic attacks and panic disorder
Working on attacks that come with a sudden racing heart, shortness of breath and the fear of “losing control”, and on the worry of “what if it happens again”.
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Depression
Working with depression: prolonged low mood, loss of motivation and inability to enjoy things, affecting both mood and everyday functioning.
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Fear of Being Alone: The Abandonment Schema
The fear of being alone is sometimes a trace of the abandonment schema. How the schema shows up in relationships and how it is worked on in schema therapy.
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Are You a Perfectionist?
Perfectionism is a common trait, both in everyday life and in the therapy room. When is it helpful, and when does it become exhausting?
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Anxiety disorders
Being constantly on edge, worry you can't control and tension in the body: working with anxiety that narrows everyday life.
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Mindfulness
A skills-based approach built on bringing attention to the present moment without judgement; it supports work on anxiety, stress and emotion regulation.
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What Is Emotional Eating?
Eating to soothe emotions rather than hunger: the signs and causes of emotional eating, and ways to cope with it.
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Am I Depressed?
Which symptoms need to be present, and for how long, for a diagnosis of depression? Answers to common questions about depression.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Working on unwanted, distressing thoughts that come to mind and the repeated behaviours used to ease the distress they cause.
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Phobias and social anxiety
Working on excessive fear of particular objects or situations and on intense anxiety about how others will judge you.
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Emotion regulation
Working on intense, sudden waves of emotion and automatic responses such as suppressing feelings or emotional eating.
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Growing Up with an Unpredictable Parent
How does growing up with an inconsistent, unpredictable parent shape the way we trust, relate to others and regulate our emotions as adults?
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Relationship and couple difficulties
Working with couples and individuals on recurring arguments, breakdowns in communication, trust issues and feeling lonely within a relationship.