By booking a session, you will be able to overcome your difficulties, become more confident and regain a sense of control. We will take good care of you while guaranteeing you confidentiality and security. Your views, ideals and religious beliefs will be respected.  You will always be free to ask questions and discuss your concerns.

Sessions usually take place in person or by phone. During sessions, we help you using the brief, solution-focussed psychotherapy model. This model is a combination of cognitive-behaviour therapy and clinical hypnosis.   Most people need just a few sessions to overcome their problems. Your individual Psychotherapist will inform you of the number of sessions you need at the end of your exploratory session.

The first exploratory session lasts one hour. It has three parts:

1. Information

Your Psychotherapist tells you a little about him/herself, the type of therapy model that he/she uses in addition to answering your questions and addressing your concerns.

2. Exploration

You explore the reason for your visit to get a better understanding of your psychological difficulty, its frequency and degree. Your Psychotherapist will help you find other healthier areas of your life and seek out your strengths, abilities and core skills. This knowledge can be used during the therapy to help you address, control and finally overcome your problems.

3. Goal setting

You both agree to a target for therapy. Your Psychotherapist prepares a therapy plan and informs you how many sessions you will need. If there is time left, you can begin therapy.

All further therapy sessions last one hour. During these sessions you cover the following three areas:

1. Changes and improvements

Together you discuss changes and improvements, assess what has worked best and follow the treatment plan.

2. Therapy

Therapy then follows and it can be in the form of discussions, cognitive (thinking) exercises, list writing, behaviour exercise, and role-play and, if you agree, hypnotherapy. Sessions can contain some or all of these components depending on the nature of your psychological concern and your degree of progress.

3. Task and exercises

Your Psychotherapist may ask you to complete certain tasks, such as noticing when and where your psychological difficulty occurs and its strength. You also cover exceptions that may occur so that you can see which parts of your life encourage or discourage the problem. This means that your therapy carries on outside of the therapy room as well as inside increasing results and consolidating treatment. These exercises are empowering and help you to take control over your thought patterns and behaviour, rather than being at their mercy.

This session lasts for one hour and contains two sections:

1. Discussion

You discuss your original reason for attending therapy review your goals so that you feel completely confident and happy that you have reached your target.

2. Summary:

This covers how to avoid relapse, maintain healthy lifestyle patterns and behaviours.