Who we can help

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Everybody experiences worry and anxiety at times. While this is a normal part of life, it can become problematic if it becomes more severe or longer lasting. There are various types of anxiety. These include social anxiety, health anxiety, worry, agoraphobia and phobias to name a few.

We offer a range of techniques tailored to each anxiety condition and your experience. 

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition that can have a huge impact on peoples' ability to focus and maintain concentration. This can affect their lives and work in all sorts of ways.

We can help you to make sense of what's going on for you and to manage your difficulties.

We also offer ADHD assessments for children, young people and adults. 

Low mood and depression can feel overwhelming and all consuming. Low mood can sometimes make it difficult to find enjoyment in activities and you can find yourself feeling isolated and withdrawing from people. 

We can help you understand your low mood and how this is maintained in your life, and what can be done to change this. 

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is often misunderstood and people associate this with wanting a clean and tidy home. In reality OCD can be debilitating and is usually driven through a sense of lack of control and overwhelming anxiety. 

Depending on your OCD experience and how it is presenting, we can help in a variety of ways. Strategies such as Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and hierarchies are used to reduce distress and anxiety. 

Everybody experiences emotions differently and to different degrees. Everyone's relationship with their emotions is individual. Some of us supress and hide our emotions, even from ourselves, because they feel too difficult. Some of us do the opposite and find ourselves overwhelmed by our feelings and as a means to coping, can find ourselves self-harming, becoming aggressive, or becoming distressed. We can also struggle to understand others' emotions, and this can lead to difficulties.

We can help you to make sense of why you experience emotions the way you do and consider how the way in which you express these emotions may be maintaining the difficulties.

Relationships are hugely complicated, and even when people love each other, difficulties can arise. While the reasons for this can be varied and complex, they often come down to communication. Disagreements and conflicts are inevitable parts of a relationship, but it is only through learning to talk to each other that we can move past them. 

We can help you and your partner to identify the difficulties within your relationship and explore each others' needs. whether these difficulties be infidelity, stress, uncertainty, breakdown of love or communication, we can help. 

If you have been through a traumatic experience, life can feel confusing and difficult. Trauma is individual for everyone and your experiences are unique to you. 

We can help you to work through and understand your traumas using a wide range of techniques. 

We are vulnerable to stress, especially as life becomes more challenging and the world becomes more complicated. 

We can help you develop more helpful and healthy strategies to cope with stress and help you to identify your stressors. This can significantly improve your over all well-being and empower you to navigate life in a way that feels more positive. 

While families can be extremely loving and supportive, the individual dynamics that they can bring can be both challenging and stressful. 

Family therapy can help with a range of difficulties including disagreements. miscommunication. problem solving issues and blame. It can also be really helpful when one or more members of the family are experiencing difficulties with mental health or emotional experiences and can help the family to understand their needs in a non-judgemental way. 

Psychosis is a term used to describe experiences that can feel unusual or perhaps things you are not able to make sense of. We can work together to begin to understand your experiences and where these might be coming from. 

We use a range of strategies to reduce distressing thoughts, voices, paranoia or beliefs

When someone experiences Bipolar Disorder, they describe shifts in their mood from being depressed and experiencing Mania or Hypomania. This is very different from shifts in emotional experience but can feel very similar. 

Everyone's experiences with Bipolar are individual. We can help guide you through your experiences and understand the triggers that impact your mood. 

Perfectionism can significantly impact the way in which we live our lives and have an impact on our mood and well-being. Perfectionism can be rooted in many beliefs about ourselves or the way in which we interact with the world. 

In therapy, we explore the root of perfectionistic thinking and how these beliefs are then maintained by our thoughts and our actions. We will work together to overcome your perfectionism so you can feel at peace.