Trauma Therapy offers a structured and supportive space to explore the effects of both single-incident and complex trauma (sometimes referred to as C-PTSD). This approach emphasises collaborative pacing, encouraging awareness, and treatment, of behaviours that hurt and injure further, like self-harm or repetitive unhealthy relational patterns. Sessions may involve reflecting on past experiences for the purpose of defusing memories of the event and understanding and influencing current feelings and behaviours attributable to the event/events. There are also somatic techniques available that help the body systems reactivity to past traumatic experiences, these too can increase awareness and self-reflection. They aim to create a sense of distance from the intense physiological effects of trauma memories and flashbacks, an example is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprosessing).
Depression and anxiety are the body’s way of adapting to prolonged difficult circumstances. They can be intergenerational ways of functioning, responses to adverse childhood events or a current situation where the brain has organized itself with prolonged despair (depression) or fear (anxiety and hypervigilance). People are generally oriented to experience one more than the other. However, everyone will experience mild depression and anxiety at times. Psychological support offers approaches that suit symptoms and etiology of symptoms. They include, Schema Therapy, mindfulness-informed interventions, behaviour therapies, and a therapeutic alliance that increases self agency – a means of increasing your ability to help yourself when in these states, as some people are more prone to anxiety and depression than others. Sessions may involve identifying thinking patterns, developing emotional awareness, and exploring contributing factors such as stress, burnout, or past negative experiences.
This may include work with individuals who have a diagnosis, or suspected diagnosis, of personality disorder or those experiencing chronic interpersonal difficulties, or heightened emotional reactivity, when unhelpful to do so.
This approach is grounded in long-term therapeutic work and draws on frameworks such as Schema Therapy, psychodynamic theory, and DBT. There is often known, or unknown and/or undisclosed trauma experienced.
The focus is on increasing self-awareness, emotional regulation, and skills which allow flexibility and choice in relational dynamics.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) involves recurring, distressing thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviours or mental acts (compulsions) intended to relieve anxiety or prevent harm (perceived or otherwise). These symptoms tend to fluctuate in severity, and at times can significantly affect daily functioning and emotional wellbeing.
OCD is experienced as a type of ‘moral terror’, the bain organises itself around stress and threats, believing something is wrong and/or something terrible will eventuate because the individual has done something wrong, or not performed an action, they MUST act according to this tension. In this way people with OCD get “stuck in their own head”. They detach from their usual responsibilities and act repetitively and compulsively.
Therapy focuses on understanding OCD cycles and developing more flexible responses to intrusive thoughts. Treatment may draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response therapy (ERP), and where appropriate, Schema Therapy to explore underlying beliefs and emotional patterns. There also may be life events that prompt stress and often increase OCD symptoms. Approaches are adapted to individual needs and emotional capacity.
Workplace stress may arise from experiences such as coworker relational ‘fallouts’, burnout, conflict, or high unattainable performance demands, and have a significant impact on psychological wellbeing. Individuals may present with anxiety, sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, chronic fatigue, interpersonal difficulties, or reduced motivation related to their work environment.
Therapy provides a space to explore these experiences, how to recover and move forward, and underlying patterns contributing to distress. Sessions may involve developing practical strategies; boundary setting, communication skills, reflective practices and restorative practices. Evidence-based approaches—including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Schema Therapy, and emotion-focused methods—are used to support individuals in managing workplace-related concerns and, where relevant, navigating career transitions and/or processing work-related harm.
Relationship-focused therapy offers a space to explore how you experience connection, trust, intimacy, and how you handle emotional distress in relationships, including how you respond to conflict. Sometimes, these aren’t our finest moments. Relationships contain within them challenges. In fact, no relationship is always, one hundred percent, an emotionally safe place. If you are willing to see what is there, the ability to learn about yourself and others can be profound. This may include difficulties in romantic, family, or social contexts, such as fear of abandonment, emotional detachment, obsessiveness, or challenges with setting boundaries, listening, remorse, shame and loss of dreams and hopes.
Therapy draws on approaches within relational psychodynamic theory and attachment theory. Sessions may involve examining early attachment experiences and relational patterns, and how these influence current dynamics. Therapy involves skill development. The process supports awareness of relational needs, emotional responses, communication styles, development of emotional and relationship maturity, and often includes exploring unresolved emotional experiences or repeated interpersonal themes.
Grief counselling provides support for individuals experiencing the emotional effects of loss, including bereavement, relationship breakdown, illness, or significant life transitions. Grief may present with a range of emotional responses such as sadness, anger, confusion, guilt, or numbness. Grief is an intense and painful experience.
Therapy offers a space to explore the personal meaning of loss and to consider how the experience may eventually be integrated into daily life. Depending on individual needs, sessions may involve narrative work, emotional regulation strategies, and meaning-making approaches. Support is also available for those experiencing ambiguous loss and or disenfranchised loss, such as estrangement, infertility, or anticipated loss.
Sessions are paced in accordance with each person’s readiness and preferences. Supporting expression and adjustment.