Aromatherapy
What is aromatherapy?Aromatherapy uses essential oils, which are the volatile organic constituents of plants (meaning the chemicals that smell in plants). Aromatherapy has its roots in herbal medicine and is perhaps one of the oldest therapies in existence with documented uses in India, China,...
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Art Therapy
The practice of art therapy works across health and medical fields and may incorporate clients’ use of various visual art forms such as drawing, painting, sculpture and collage. Some art therapists also offer phototherapy, play and sand tray work. How It WorksArt Therapy is based on the belief that ...
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Biodynamic Massage
What is Biodynamic Massage? Whilst biodynamic massage may involve working to release specific tensions, its major focus is to help you regain the power to heal yourself. It does this by seeking to discover the quality of touch that you need at that particular time.How does the Biodynamic Thera...
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy?Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that how we think (cognition), how we feel (emotion) and how we act (behaviour) all interact together. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy aims to help you to understand the links between your thoughts, feelings ...
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Colour Therapy
What is Colour Therapy?Colour Therapy (also known as Chromotherapy or Colourology) aims to balance and enhance our body's energy centres/chakras by using the seven colours of the light spectrum, which can help to stimulate our body's own healing process. Each of the spectrum colours is simpl...
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Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
What is EFT?Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a powerful tool for identifying and releasing emotional distress. A Stanford engineer, Gary Craig, developed the technique. His interest was in helping people overcome their emotional limitations through psychological treatments. The technique acts as...
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Eriksonian Hypnosis/Therapy
What is Eriksonian Therapy?Eriksonian psychotherapy is a practical process of facilitating customised real-life experiences that promote responsiveness and rejuvenate unused resources in patients. Dr Milton H Erickson, best known for being the leading practitioner in hypnosis, is said to have develo...
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Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR)
What is EMDR?Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy that has people move their eyes back and forth while re-imagining the source of their trauma. It’s intention is to relieve the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems usin...
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Flower Essences
Bach Flower Remedies and Bush Flower RemediesWhat are Flower Essences?A Flower Essence is the vibrational essence of a flower that has been transferred and activated in water. Dr. Edward Bach was the first doctor to make and use flower essences. Back in the 1930s, Dr. Bach believed that the problem ...
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Gestalt Therapy
What is Gestalt?Gestalt Therapy is a psychotherapy that focuses on here-and-now experience and personal responsibility. The objective of Gestalt Therapy, in addition to helping the client overcome symptoms, is to enable the her-him to become more fully and creatively alive and to be free from the bl...
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Hakomi
What is Hakomi?Hakomi has been described as a body-centred psychotherapy and words like gentleness and mindfulness are often associated with it. Hakomi is a way of looking at the world that is compassionate, mindful, curious, non-invasive, humorous and respectful, and is based on five principles – m...
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Hypnotherapy
What is Hypnosis?In explaining a little about this fascinating subject it is perhaps important to note that there are many ways of working within the field of Hypnosis or Trance. Trance may be described as a natural learning state.One way of understanding this is that our awareness becomes internall...
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Jungian Therapy
What is Jungian therapy?Jungian analysis is a form of psychotherapy developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. It uses techniques similar to dream analysis to help you access your inner or unconscious world and develop greater self-realisation, and encourages imaginative and expressive activi...
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Life Coaching
What is Life Coaching?Life coaching is a practice to assist you in determining and achieving your personal goals. You work with a trained coach using various methods, based on your specific needs, to set and reach goals. Life Coaching is not targeted at psychological illnesses, and coaches are not t...
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Music Therapy
What is Music Therapy?Music therapy is a system that uses music and instruments to produce relaxation and changes in emotions, behaviour and physiology for the patient. Through the use of music, patients outline and set out to achieve specific goals. Goals achievable through music therapy often incl...
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Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
What is NLP?In the 1970’s two American university graduates, Richard Bandler and John Grinder researched the pursuit of excellence. How we achieve what we do as individuals. In so doing they incorporated their research with the work of Gregory Bateson (Linguist), Milton Erickson (Psychiatrist) and V...
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Psychoanalysis
What is psychoanalysis?Psychoanalysis is a technique that seeks to discover connections among the dormant parts of patients' brain processes. Developed by Sigmund Freud, it was come to believe that patients' problems grew from socially unacceptable desires and fantasies. The outcome is to he...
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Psychotherapy
What is Psychotherapy?Psychotherapy is a range of techniques which use only dialogue and communication, designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve relationships (such as in a family or couple). Most forms of psychotherapy use only spoken conversation, though some als...
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Reiki
What is Reiki?Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a form of spiritual healing using "life force energy" channelled through the practitioner to the recipient. Developed by Mikao Usui (Japan) in the early 20th century, Reiki is based on the theory that unseen energy flows through all living things and is co...
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Rebirthing/Breathwork
What is Rebirthing/Breathwork?Rebirthing, now also known as Breathwork, is a safe and simple breathing technique that connects the conscious mind with the subconscious mind. It is used primarily to surface dormant feelings and memories in your sub-conscious, or release physical tension, creating awa...
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Sandplay
What is Sandplay?Sandplay therapy is a form of psychotherapy for both adults and children for the purpose of healing through connection with the deep psyche. It is a hands-on, expressive counselling and psychotherapy modality that has been in use for over 75 years. By creating scenes in a tray of sa...
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)?Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term therapy that works by focussing on solutions rather than on problems. Instead of analysing your past and working out what went wrong, SFBT will help you look towards the future, find direction and mov...
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Somatic Psychotherapy
What is Somatic Psychotherapy?Somatic psychotherapy (or body psychotherapy) is led by the belief that the psyche (mind) and soma (body) are ‘one’ being, taking a therapeutic, holistic approach to the body, somatic experience and the embodied self. It focuses on how all aspects of our being are inter...
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Transactional Analysis
What is Transactional Analysis?Transactional analysis (or TA), is a type of psychoanalytic therapy that focuses on your three ‘ego states’ (parent, adult, child) which are shaped by childhood experiences. Psychiatrist Eric Berne developed transactional analysis during the late 1950s.How does Transac...
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Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
What is Thought Field Therapy?Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is a psychological treatment, developed by Californian clinical psychologist, Dr Roger Callahan, and is considered to be a mind-body therapy, using a combination of modern science, Oriental medicine, and the body's energy system.Thought F...
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Voice Dialogue
What is Voice Dialogue?Voice Dialogue, an aspect of psychology and psychotherapy, is a technique which expands your self-awareness and gives you more of an understanding within yourself and in your life. The technique makes you more aware of all the aspects of your life, be they spiritual, instinctu...
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