This page is a guide to the different types of models of therapy
Please note that all types of talking therapy are beneficial and if you are unsure which one may help you, take into consideration that no matter what model looks appealing it’s the relationship and feeling comfortable with your therapist that is paramount to its success.
At the Greenwich Wellness Rooms all our practitioners have experienced talking therapy so have an awareness and understanding of what is required to help you feel at ease. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT can be used to treat people with a wide range of mental health issues. It is based on the theory that how we think (cognition), how we feel (emotion) and how we act (behaviour) all interact together. In particular, our thoughts determine our feelings and behaviour.
Unrealistic and negative thoughts can cause us distress and therefore result in problems. When someone suffers with psychological distress, the way in which they interpret situations becomes confused, which in turn has a negative impact on the actions they take.
CBT is a goal-oriented therapy which facilitates you to unravel and identify current issues concerning dysfunctional thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Aiming to help people become aware of when they make negative interpretations, and of behavioural patterns which reinforce distorted thinking.
Cognitive behavioural therapy helps people to develop alternative ways of thinking and behaving, therefore reducing their psychological distress. CBT is recommended by the ‘World Health Organization -WHO’ and ‘National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – NICE’
Person-centered Therapy
Person-centered therapy is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously. Therapists work with clients to help them interpret their unconscious thoughts or ideas. They explore ideas to understand an individual’s experience from their perspective, making them better able to understand their own feelings. Enabling the client to reconnect with their inner values and sense of self-worth. Therefore allowing the belief that all of us will grow and fulfil our potential.
This journey allows clients to reconnect with and utilise their own strengths and identity, leading to powerful transformations over time.
Integrative Psychotherapeutic Therapy
This model helps clients face each moment openly and authentically without having formed an opinion, expectation or attitude beforehand. Therapists work with clients to focus on the fears and concerns that limit their psychological freedom. This includes specific triggers that may be causing a disruptive pattern. Allowing clients the opportunity to explore current problems in their lives and to see how their lives may be affected by issues outside their awareness.
This enables them to unearth and discover potential and future possibilities. In therapy we can explore how the body stores traumatic events or an accumulation of events. Then how this can manifest as anxiety, stress or depression, which can often leave us feeling confused, scared and disconnected from those around us.
Integrative therapy promotes a healthy balance between mind and body, allowing clients to start setting goals and practising new behaviours. This assists them to expand their limitations and achieve greater gratification.
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt is a positive and practical integrative therapeutic approach. Therapists will help clients focus on their immediate thoughts, feelings and behaviour and to better understand the way they relate to others.
Mindfulness Therapy
Mindfulness based therapy incorporates practices such as meditation and breathing exercises. Using these tools allows the client to break away from negative thought patterns, reducing the risk of depression or relapses. Mindfulness allows clients to learn how to pay attention to each moment, see the minds patterns, and the way in which certain patterns of mind lead to escalation of emotions, despite our best effort to control them.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
EMDR is a type of psychotherapy to help people deal with and heal from experiences that have caused emotional trauma. EMDR therapy is based on several theories of psychotherapy, including concepts of CBT.
At our London based space, we practice EMDR techniques such as, eye movements, hand tapping, and/or audio stimulation to unblock emotional processes that have been static due to distress. Your brain can be reprogrammed to begin to heal from the pain and fear associated with trauma and emotional distress. EMDR may allow you to gain a new perspective that can facilitate improved self-esteem and enhance personal beliefs about your capabilities.
This therapy follows eight phases of treatment that focus on the past, the present, and the future, helping you work through emotional distress and trauma and learn skills to cope with current and future stress. This treatment may cause rapid relief from symptoms and even has the potential to help you begin to feel better after session one, although there is a great deal of variation in patients’ responses. Primarily it is used to overcome symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, EMDR has been found to positively treat other mood and anxiety disorders, including depression, phobias, and panic disorder. Therapists have found that it might be particularly helpful in treating panic disorder, panic attacks, and agoraphobia when your past traumatic experiences are contributing to your current symptoms. EMDR therapy UK is recommended by the ‘National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – NICE’ and the ‘World Health Organization -WHO’
Humanistic- existential Therapy
This form of therapy emphasises self-acceptance, personal values, personal meaning and individual choice. Existential psychology emphasises self-determination, choice and individual responsibility. Therapists believe that everyone has problems that hold them back from reaching their fullest potential. Humanistic therapy focuses on individuals’ inherent drive towards self-actualisation, the process of fulfilment of one’s talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone. Primarily, this type of therapy explores a self-awareness and mindfulness that helps the client change their state of mind and behaviour from one set of reactions to a healthier one with more productive self-awareness and thoughtful actions.
Therefore, this approach allows the merging of mindfulness and behavioural therapy, with positive social support.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy uses intense concentration, guided relaxation, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness often called a trance. The client’s attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around them is temporarily blocked out. In this naturally occurring state, a client may focus their attention, with the help of a trained therapist, on specific thoughts or tasks.
Hypnotherapy can be used to treat;
It can also be used to improve
Our Hypnotherapy is performed in a calm and therapeutic environment. The hypnotherapist will guide clients into a relaxed, focused state and ask them to think about experiences and situations in positive ways. This can help them change the way they think and behave.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming Therapy (NLP)NLP is a powerful concept used to enhance self development and move towards personal transformation. The unconscious mind is a powerful part of us, it’s where the thoughts, behaviours, thinking, memories, habits, the entire model of the world lives. It has recorded every detail of everything we have ever seen, done, heard, smelt, tasted.
NLP therapy is extremely effective, because rather than just using questioning skills to get clients talking about something, NLP coaches use other techniques to help change behaviours and thinking. This allows them to be released from negative memories, feelings or thoughts that are holding them back from making progress. The therapist will help clients re-wire past detrimental thought patterns and behaviours and help them create new ones. Similar to a car MOT, but instead you are nourishing your mind and body.
Time Line Therapy
This model is based on the principle that our self-esteem, beliefs, emotions, and behaviours all stem from what we have learnt and experienced in life, including how we look at those experiences. The Time line model uses the clients own internal “Time Line”. Thus by connecting with their unconscious mind in a number of ways to heal emotional trauma and eliminating unwanted thoughts, emotions and behaviours.