Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a third wave cognitive behavioural therapy approach that focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts, feelings, sensations, and internal conflict and experiences while guiding them to commit to value-based actions through supporting the client to really understand their own values, beliefs, and identity.

The theory suggests that infants and young children have an innate drive to seek proximity to their primary caregivers for safety and security, and that the quality of these early attachments can have long-term effects on social and emotional development and as a result affect the way we see the world and form relationships throughout our life unless we work on them.

This is an effective treatment approach for a range of mental and emotional health issues, including anxiety and depression. CBT aims to help you identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and to learn practical self-help strategies.

This type of therapy helps those who struggle with low self-esteem, shame, guilt and self-criticism. These feelings can often be the driving force behind other mental health conditions like anxiety and depression which can keep people ‘stuck’ in unhealthy patterns of negative internal narratives.

Art therapy allows you to express those feelings that you can either not find words to explain, or are simply too difficult to even attempt to. Then you can talk through the image with your therapist. Creative therapy can use a variety of methods from music, painting, and photography, to drama, writing and poetry.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a type of talking therapy. It's based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). But it's specially adapted for people who feel emotions very intensely. The aim of DBT is to help you understand and accept your difficult feelings.

Externalising creates space for people to have a view/position in relation to the problem, and creates ways for people to take action as opposed to being overwhelmed by the problem. Externalising creates space for people to join around problems and their effects.

Mentalisation-based therapy is psychotherapy focussed on helping you have clearer and more realistic and authentic thoughts about yourself and others. The idea is that you improve your thinking, you will gain control over problematic behaviours and be able to make better choices for yourself, meaning your relationships improve and you feel better and more in control.

This type of therapy is a way of working which aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the person to externalise their issues rather than internalise them.

Nature therapy, also called ecotherapy, is the practice of being in nature to boost growth and healing, especially mental health. You might also hear it called green care, green exercise, green therapy, or horticulture therapy.

Animal assisted therapy can help with many issues including anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma, eating disorders and those who are neurodiverse. They have a calming effect and add a spiritual connection with people and animals.

This is a form of therapy that focuses on the present moment rather than past experiences. Gestalt therapy is based on the idea that people are influenced by their present environment. Each individual works to achieve personal growth, accountability, and balance. Gestalt focuses on the use of empathy and unconditional acceptance.

This is a short-term therapy which focuses on setting goals and working out how to achieve them. It is focussed more on current challenges than historical issues.

Somatic Therapy a treatment focusing on the body and mind and how emotions appear within the body. Somatic therapies understands that our body holds and expresses experiences and emotions, and traumatic events or unresolved emotional issues can become 'trapped' inside our physical body. For more on Somatic Therapy click here.

TA is a talking therapy and sessions are designed to explore an individual’s personality and how this has been shaped by experiences – particularly those stemming from childhood. Again, the way our personalities present in adulthood, effect our relationships with the people in our lives.

Trauma Informed Practice is a strengths-based approach, which seeks to understand and respond to the impact of trauma on people's lives. The approach emphasises physical, psychological, and emotional safety for everyone and aims to empower individuals to re-establish control of their lives.