Mental Health conditions are not just anxiety, or just low mood. When they impact on daily life, they need explored, understood and conquered.You need to feel better.
I have had 11 plus years of working a 6 session, brief therapy model for all mild to moderate mental health conditions. More than 6 sessions are available. A session of Cognitive behavioural therapy.
With all clients I work with Compassion, because people can have a 'strong inner critic' that bullies them with harsh accusations e.g. 'you are useless'. By paying attention to what your inner bully tells you, this can create a viscious cycle of negativity, this increases anxieties and low mood. Research shows that people who treat themselves compassionately (with kindness) have much better mental health than people that do not.
I worked for 11 years with University students covering all of the common mental health problems that we . This was a fabulous role. I worked with a brief therapy model i.e. 6 sessions of therapy including 'homework' tasks for the client to complete between therapy sessions. I am flexible in that we can agree to work 6 sessions, but if you need more I can accommodate that. Sometimes people reach their goals in less sessions and that is also ok. The brief therapy that I offer is not just behaviour change, it is understanding about what may have contributed to e.g. anxiety or depression and working with that as well as changing any unwanted or unhelpful behaviours. A frequent question is, 'can you really 'fix' a problem in 6 sessions'? Yes it can be done. NHS (England) offers Talking Therapies and people say they can feel unheard and not understood, because the focus is on symptom relief and behaviour change. Wanting to know 'why' is a natural curiosity and I can make space for the 'why' has this problem likely to have occured? which we explore together.
Mental health problems (mild to moderate)
- Stress
- Loss
- Low mood/depression
- Anxiety/panic, health anxiety
- Low self esteem.
- Not feeling good enough or loveable
- OCD
- Eating distress
- Body dysmorphia
- Sexual problems
- Perfectionism/Procrastination
- Anger
- Social media compulsion, negatively comparing yourself to others
