Integrative, Relational and Holistic
- My counselling, psychotherapy and coaching service in Nuthall, Nottingham offers an Integrative, Holistic and Relational approach.
- The relational integrative approach combines different theories and practice to support the well being of the client on the basis of a therapeutic relationship.
- Well-being can be influenced by the positive and negative relationships we experience during our childhood and adulthood. The integration of therapies and approaches I practice includes:
- Humanistic,
- Person Centred,
- Gestalt
- Transactional Analysis,
- Psychodynamic
- Brief Solution Focussed Therapy
- Psycho-education
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
- Mindfulness
- Holistic Health
- Walk and Talk Therapy
- Compassion Focussed Therapy
- Relaxation Therapy
- Life Coaching
- NLP
- Time Line Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Spiritual Development
- Further details about some of these approaches are given below.
Humanistic
- Respecting everyone as an individual
- Believing that we all have an ability to reach our best potential if we can experience the right conditions, environment and relationships to do so.
- Believing that as adults we are responsible for our selves and our choices in life.
- The humanistic approach considers the whole person, ie thoughts, feelings, sensations, behaviour, family, work, childhood, and relationships etc.
Person Centred
- Focuses on what is important for the client,
- Therapy is mainly led by the client.
- I do not not believe I know what is best for you, although I may be able to offer ideas on what might be helpful to you.
- Being alongside you in the exploration of your experiences
- Active engagement to support you.
- Together the therapist and client discover how the changes desired can be achieved.
Gestalt
- Healthy functioning is believed to be founded on a natural cycle of meeting needs; as one need is met other needs can arise and also be met.
- This cycle can get interrupted with defence mechanism causing loss of meeting needs
- ‘here and now’ support in increasing your self awareness of how your needs are being met or missed
Transactional Analysis
- How our ego Ego States: Adult, Parent and Child which can be positive and also problematic.
- How we can play different roles of victim, rescuer or persecutor.
- Exploration of relational dynamics to increase awareness and choice to help address relational, emotional, cognitive and behavioural issues.
Psychodynamic
- Considering how childhood experiences and past relationships eg with parents, caregivers, teachers and significant others in our lives can strongly influence us positively and negatively impact
- Looking at how these experiences influence our current beliefs, experiences, sense of self and relationships
- Identifying unfinished business and unconscious patterns of the past which are being played out in the present.
- Working with the insight of unconscious processes, to increase self awareness, and self understanding
- The experience of a therapeutic relationship to address unmet needs, and attachment and relational issues,
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Focussed and structured here and now approach on addressing specific problems and achieving goals.
- Explores unhelpful thoughts, rules, values, fears and other difficult feelings which may be contributing to issues and problematic behaviours.
- Identifies negative thoughts, unhelpful thoughts, automatic thoughts, irrational thoughts, limiting thoughts etc,
- Awareness of negative thought cycles
- Re-evaluates and make changes to beliefs, feelings and behaviours
- Facing fears and creating new healthy association
- Meridian Psychotherapy and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)
- Combines psychological talking therapy, with an energy re-balancing technique known as EFT.
- Addresses negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, difficult emotional states, upsetting events, difficult memories, and trauma etc
- Deactivates negative associations to the stress response
- Desensitises thoughts, feelings and events, and sends calming signals to the brain
- An efficient way to provide treatment and prompt relief to psychological, emotional and physical problems
- The therapeutic effects of EFT have been clinically proven effective, and can be remarkably quick
Mindfulness
- Working mindfully means that we are maintaining accepting attention to the present experience, in the here and now, in the being mode.
- It is being able to access the calm and centred part of ourselves which we all possess and to notice the experiences we are having.
- Developing mindfulness means that we can observe our thoughts and feelings without reacting to them, or being overwhelmed by them.
- Increasing choice and control about what we can do with our thoughts and feelings.
- Using our breath, body and senses as a source of an anchor we take a break from the doing mode to the being mode.
- Experiencing a more calming and peaceful place which is a source of relaxation at any time or point in the day as needed.
- Over a period of time the mind learns to be more relaxed, calm and quiet unless we chose otherwise
Relaxation Therapy
- When working on ourselves, and addressing our difficulties it is always important to consider our self care
- Paying conscious attention to our ability to relax within our lifestyles and routines.
- Looking at all areas of our life to see how our choices and behaviour may be contributing to our stresses and tension
- Exploring, what we can do differently to help reduce stress, and increase balance with relaxing activities.
- Considering our involvement with friends, family, home, work, play, nutrition and exercise.
- How stress and tension is related to the mind and body, a relaxed/stressed mind helps relax/stress the body and vice a versa.
- Exploring relaxing activities which focus on the body, breathing, and the senses eg sport, stretching, walking, weights, yoga, visualisation, meditation, music, aromatherapy, taking breaks, mindfulness, and personal developments.
Psychodynamic
- Sometimes we have rigid beliefs about how we should think, feel, behave and relate with ourselves and others.
- These ways of being are normally learnt, or developed as a coping mechanism from our past experience
- We may not always have been supported towards our best potential.
- Sometimes it is useful to have further regarding different topics eg: emotions, psychological concepts and processes eg grief and loss
- anxiety ~ guilt ~ shame~ personality traits ~ defence mechanisms ~ anger and rage~ breathing ~ styles ~ fight and flight ~ trauma ~ body talk etc.
- Understanding the influence of our early relationships can help us to increase awareness of ourselves, our choices and changes possible.
COACHING: Change, Healing and Growth
- Focusses on achieving goals and improving emotional, mental and physical health.
- Motivated and committed to develop self-awareness, personal growth, solve problems, and heal old wounds
- Looking to increases positivity, peace of mind, self understanding, change and sense of achievement,
- Willing to addressing negative and unhelpful thinking, beliefs, emotions and behaviours
- Working with mindset-management, psychoeducation, coaching, cbt, emotional freedom technique, and mindfulness
- Fast-track Programme – more intense approach together with EFT can increase effectiveness, within a 75-100 min session.
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