07503 781029
CBT counselling and psychotherapy.
Professionally trained Therapy services.
Gem Thomson
I am a schema focused psychotherapist. This means that I look for ways unconscious processes are affecting your life. This often shows up as patterns in relation to others.
What we find together can be help you understand how the past has shaped you and how you can be in future.
My therapeutic foundational approach is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I am BABCP accredited. This is an effective, evidence-based approach which tends to be solutions focused.
I am also an EMDR therapist, this is an approach to trauma processing that uses the client’s internal processes to heal.
There are many different psychotherapeutic models and potentially the most important part is whether you fit with your therapist. I’m happy to give a free 15 minutes to talk to you so you can decide.
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I was previously a Police Officer, a Nurse a Resource Manager and an Autism Practitioner.
Effective psychotherapy and counselling depend on many things, but especially on the client feeling safe with the therapist. Feeling safe involves knowing and trusting that your thoughts and feelings are being heard and kept in confidence.
That is why I suggest that we use the 15 minute free meeting for us to discover whether we can work together.
I adhere to strict professional guidelines regarding confidentiality and ethics, of course, but it is important that you feel as comfortable as possible talking to me.
If we begin working together, we agree a time when we will meet on a weekly basis.
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I commonly work with
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Relationship issues.
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Anxiety disorders such as generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias.
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Depression
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Post-traumatic stress disorder .
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Grief and loss
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Stress-related problems
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Women's issues including peri menopause.
Services
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Sessions cost £85 for 55 minutes
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COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
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EMDR
CBT is an evidence based approach to mood difficulties which involved full cognitive appraisal of attention, bias, flexibility and perspective. It looks at processes which develop between thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Behaviours are often a target for change. The therapeutic stance is collaborative. It attempts to find solutions to problems and change them.
EMDR is a therapy often used to process memories using the brain's network of memories. Memories are healed and made sense of whilst the person experiences bi-lateral stimulation (cross the body signalling).
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Schema Therapy
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Hypnotherapy
Schema Therapy is a blend of gestalt, psychodynamic and CBT. It makes sense of 'ways of being' which may seem contradictory or shameful to the person by understanding the historical ignition and role, they play. The therapeutic stance is warm, on side, deliberately useful and supportive.
Hypnotherapy is an excellent adjunctive tool. It works very well for motivation, belief- change and feeling really good.