Therapeutic Modality
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Build practical, goal-directed skills to examine unhelpful thinking patterns, change automatic habits and support valued action.
Presenting Challenges
Are you or a loved one experiencing these patterns?
- 01.Feeling trapped in negative loops of self-criticism, overthinking, or anticipating worst-case scenarios.
- 02.Experiencing avoidance behaviours that keep your world small and prevent you from taking action.
- 03.Struggling with unhelpful, automated habits or digital routines that conflict with your core values.
- 04.Low mood and loss of motivation, feeling unable to break out of a cycle of withdrawal.
Therapeutic Approach
How we work together to restore agency:
- ✓Collaborating actively to examine the interaction between your thoughts (cognitions), feelings (emotions), and physical behaviours.
- ✓Integrating modern 'third-wave' updates, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT).
- ✓Designing collaborative real-world behavioural tasks and experiments to test unhelpful assumptions between sessions.
- ✓Rebuilding daily routines around core personal values rather than automatic, immediate emotional escape.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a CBT session look like?
CBT is an active, collaborative, and structured form of therapy. In each 50-minute session, we set a clear agenda together, review your experience with home-based tasks from the previous week, unpack current challenging situations, and design new practical experiments or coping techniques for you to test out in the real world.
What are 'third-wave' CBT therapies?
Third-wave CBT refers to modern evolutions of traditional CBT. Instead of only trying to change or challenge negative thoughts, third-wave models like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teach us to alter our relationship with our thoughts—developing mindfulness to notice thoughts without being consumed by them. Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) focuses specifically on calming a hyperactive threat system by cultivating internal safety and self-compassion to soften toxic self-criticism.
Is CBT effective for long-term change?
CBT has a substantial evidence base for a range of difficulties, although no therapy works in the same way for everyone. The approach focuses on developing practical cognitive and behavioural skills that you can continue to use beyond the end of therapy. We would review progress together and adapt the work if it is not helping.
Let's discuss how we can work together
I offer a free, no-obligation 15-minute phone conversation to explore your needs, answer your questions, and see how we might work together.