Solution Focused Therapy
Solution focused brief therapy focuses on what a client wants to achieve through therapy, rather than on their problems or mental health issues in the past. It focuses on the issues that are presenting now and works with the client to find strategies and techniques to overcome difficulties, a crisis or on personal development goals.
It focuses on the client’s strengths as they are designed to empower the client to achieve their goals and reach self-actualisation.
The counsellor will help the client design SMART goals and create a plan to together for client to achieve them. The counsellor encourages the client to build their strengths, look for exceptions where they’ve done it, rather than dwell on their past, problems or limitations.
We can’t change the past, but you can create a new future starting from today. Sometimes you need someone to believe in you or awaken your potential that lies within. You are stronger than you think.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is a form of psychotherapy it’s a mindfulness behavioural therapy. Its aim is to accept what is, what’s happened and the pain that goes with it. To be able to create a meaningful and rich life, it uses an eclectic mix of mindfulness skills and exercises along with commitment and behaviour therapy to help you accept and move forward with your life.
The concepts are psychological flexibility of mental health and behaviour effectiveness.
When people’s responses to difficulties or challenging events their internal experiences reduce their contact with the present moment, preventing them from behaving in ways to live in meaningful life directions.
ACT is proven technique that’s effective to treat a range of clinical conditions:
- depression mild to moderate, chronic pain
- high stress and anxiety management
- grief and loss, trauma
- crisis, accident or cancer, illness
- PTSD, drug, alcohol issues
- schizophrenia, PTSD, trauma,
- body image
- mistakes, failures
- OCD and more
It takes into consideration your core values and whilst we experience difficulties, and all sorts of unwanted challenging private experiences, thoughts, feelings urges and memories. It teaches effective ways to handle all of these and adapt to these challenges by developing greater pscychological flexibity rather than staying stuck in unhealthy thought patterns and habits and allows client to move forward with their life with acceptance.
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