CONDITIONS

  • A compulsion is an urge to do something. An addiction is the need to do something to experience pleasure or remove discomfort.

  • When anxiety does not go away and can get worse over time. Symptoms can interfere with daily activities such as job performance, schoolwork, and relationships.

  • Apraxia is is a complete loss of ability to coordinate a target set of muscles.

    Dyslexia is language based learning difficulty that primarily affects reading and spelling.

    Dyspraxia is a fine and/or gross motor skills difficulty that may also affect learning.

  • ADD is the term commonly used to describe a neurological condition with symptoms of inattention, distractibility, and poor working memory.

  • ADHD is a condition that includes symptoms such as being restless, having trouble concentrating, a short attention span, constantly fidgeting and acting impulsively.

  • ASC is a neurological condition that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave.

  • BD is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings.

  • BDD is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others.

  • BDD is a mental illness that severely impacts a person’s ability to manage their emotions, leading to impulsivity, and affecting the individual’s self image.

  • A common but serious mood disorder causing severe symptoms that affect how a person feels, thinks, and handles daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, or working.

  • Problems with the quality, timing, and amount of sleep, which result in daytime distress and impairment in functioning.

  • A group of conditions that typically share difficulties in modulating aggressive conducts, self-control, and impulses, resulting in behaviors that constitute a threat to others' safety and to social norms.

  • A mental health condition where you use the control of food to cope with feelings and other situations. There is a wide spectrum between disordered eating and an eating disorder.

  • GAD is a long-term condition that causes anxiety about a wide range of situations and issues.

    People with GAD feel anxious most days and often struggle to remember the last time they felt relaxed.

  • OCD is a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours

  • A phobia is an overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. Phobias are more pronounced than fears.

  • PTSD is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts.

  • SAD is a long-term and overwhelming fear of social situations.

  • Speech & Language Disorders refer to someone having difficulty with making themselves understood.

  • Stress is a natural human response that prompts us to address challenges and threats in our lives. Everyone experiences stress to some degree.

INTERVENTIONS

  • Designed for two or more siblings or close relatives who are having relationship difficulties.

  • A process-oriented form of psychotherapy that considers the links between an infant’s early experiences with his or her primary caregivers, and his/her resultant adult capacity for healthy emotional and physical relationships. The aim of this therapy is to establish (or re-establish) relationships based on trust and support, and through this method alleviating depression and anxiety.

  • A personalised form of therapy that concentrates on changing patterns of behaviour in the client’s life, eliminating those that have the propensity to increase depression, resolve issues that are an obstacle to ‘reward’ and enhance activities that are associated with pleasure

  • CBT is a brief form of therapy that aims to help you manage current problems (rather than delving into your past) by breaking issues down into smaller parts. It then helps you to develop practical ways to resolve them, improve your state of mind and to change negative patterns as a means of improving the state of your emotional health

  • CBTe is “enhanced” CBT and is often used for the treatment of eating disorders. It is highly individualised to suit the person and the problem to hand and is usually delivered in around 20 sessions over 20 weeks.

  • A life coach will normally work with a client towards achieving a specific outcome. This could be a particular personal or professional goals, or it could be to curtail weaknesses, bolster strengths and help to bring about clarity with regard to the direction to take.

  • Designed for couples who may wish to address relationship difficulties that have already arisen or are likely to arise in future.

    Couples therapy is not always delivered to couples who wish to remain together and can sometimes be a constructive way to preempt an amicable separation.

  • Designed to lead to a cordial solution to a problem or dispute between two or more parties.

  • DBT is broadly based on the same ideas as CBT but is designed to help those whose emotions may be causing them intense suffering. The main principle for DBT is that it aims to encourage self-acceptance, whilst also bringing about a change in the individual.

  • A nutritionists usually cannot provide medical nutritional counseling or diagnose or treat illnesses. In contrast, a registered dietitian is a credentialed professional.

  • EMDR was developed when it was noticed that eyes involuntarily move rapidly when a disturbing thought is experienced and therefore anxiety is reduced if eye movement is brought under control. It is often used as an effective treatment for anxiety, trauma and PTSD and usually delivered in a series of 60 minute sessions.

  • Hypnotherapy has grown in popularity since the realisation that the use of hypnosis in conjunction with therapy can result in greater treatment effectiveness. The rationale for this mode of therapy is that introducing positive language, imagery and thinking to an individual when she or he is in a heightened state of suggestibility is an effective means of bringing about lasting change.

  • Integrative psychotherapy is the incorporation of elements from different schools of thought. It may additionally refer to the process of amalgamating the emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and physiological systems within a person in their treatment pathway.

  • Interpersonal therapy is a method of treating depression that focuses on the individual’s personal relationships, on the basis that they lie at the centre of his or her psychological problems. The goal of this methodology is to help the individual to improve those relationships through better communication, thereby alleviating causes of depression.

  • The process of enhancing the leadership abilities of any member of an organisation.

  • By releasing physical tension held in the body, meditation can help us release worries buried in the mind, easing anxiety, stress and low mood, and even helping you get deeper, more restful sleep.

  • The MOT consists of a full mental health assessment followed by a comprehensive report consiiting, f needed and desired, of onward recommendations according to the needs of the client: whether they need to get better or want to perform better.

  • A type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment.

  • This approach centres around the idea that individuals must resolve difficult issues - including certain unconscious ones - by working through them in their therapy. It leans heavily on importance of the therapeutic relationship as a key to understanding relational difficulties in particular.

  • Relapse Prevention Skills are important to develop in anyone who is in recovery for addictive behaviour. The skills are taught to be incorporated into a recovering person’s daily life in order to reduce the threat posed by cravings.

  • Developing a healthier relationship with oneself, as well as the skills needed to cope with life's challenges and feel better in difficul times.

  • Schema therapy is designed around four theoretical pillars: Early Maladaptive Schemas (dysfunctional/self-defeating themes that have been present since childhood); Coping Styles (a person’s behavioural responses to the maladaptive schemas); Modes (a state of mind that manifests as a way of being); Basic Emotional Needs (these, if unmet in childhood, result in the creation of the Early Maladaptive Schemas). The ultimate goal of Schema Therapy is to help clients to meet their Basic Emotional Needs and to substitute the maladaptive coping styles with adaptive patterns of behaviour.

  • Systemic Family Therapy aims to look at a family unit as a whole and to address and dysfunctional relationships and communication styles within it’s members in order to help the individuals as well as the collective.

ASSESSMENTS

  • Carried out as part of an Educational Psychology assessment. Assessment available for adults, as well a children.

  • Assessment is carried out by a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician or a Consultant Psychiatrist. Assessment available for adults, as well a children.

  • Assessment is carried out by a Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician or a Consultant Psychiatrist. Assessment available for adults, as well a children.

  • Can be carried out by a Psychologist, Psychiatrist or Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician. Assessment available for adults, as well a children.

  • Carried out over three hours by an Educational Psychologist to help identify any learning issues.

  • ADD/ADHD/Autism (ASC)/OCD

  • Screening for characteristics of compulsion and/or obsession.

  • Designed to identify difficulties that might arise in everyday life.

  • Speech, language and communication assessments explore both expressive and receptive language.

PRACTITIONERS

  • Psychiatrists are doctors who are focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. They are able to both diagnose and prescribe medication.

  • Psychologists observe mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Based on their interpretation of how individuals relate to each other and to their environments, they are able to diagnose certain conditions.

  • Psychotherapists use talk therapy to help people process and recover from emotional problems.

  • Coaches take a directive approach to helping their clients to resolve problems that may be impeding their personal or professional growth.

  • Educational psychologists specialise in child development and in working with young people, their families and schools to promote the emotional and social wellbeing.  Educational Psychologists (EPs) also support those with learning difficulties to achieve their full potential through the use of assessment, monitoring and evaluation. 

  • Dietitians translate the science of nutrition into everyday information about food and advise people on their food and nutrition choices.

  • Occupational therapists work with people of all ages and can look at all aspects of daily life in a person’s home, school or workplace. They aim to improve the individual’s ability to do everyday tasks if they're having difficulties.

  • NP’s focus on the multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessment of children with neurodevelopmental health needs, and on the medical aspects of managing those needs.

  • Speech and language therapists provides treatment, support and care for those who have difficulties with communication, or with eating & drinking.