Laurel Playford, Chartered Counselling Psychologist
Laurel is an experienced Chartered Counselling Psychologist who has worked with acutely unwell clients as well as those whose issues are more manageable. Laurel employs cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), schema therapy and mindfulness in her work, integrating a wide range of skills to propel her clients to a place of emotional security with self-esteem and hope for the future.
As an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist, Laurel has considerable experience developing and running schema groups and working individually with clients in the schema model, helping clients address and heal self-destructive patterns of behaviour. Using experiential techniques such as imagery re-scripting, Laurel works with clients through their trauma, confronting and healing the parts of themselves that are holding them back in life.
As an intensively-trained Dialectical Behavioural Therapist, Laurel also works with individuals and groups through the distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and mindfulness components of the model, at an individualised pace.
Specialisms
Anxiety
Depression
Work-related Stress
Redundancy
Relationship Problems
Phobias
Panic and Agoraphobia
Personality Disorders
Low Self-esteem
Abuse
Self-harm
Bereavement
Assertiveness