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Practice Philosophy and Values

Cognitive Behavioural psychotherapy is most effective when the therapist and client work together as a team by collaborating together to achieve goals that the client want to work towards. This means that the therapist shows a commitment to identify goals with the client, answers the client's questions, gives feedback, demonstrates enthusiasm and professionalism, treat the client with respect and dignity, and works to create a real experience of optimism, hope, and knowledge to every session in order to promote recovery.

Cognitive behavioural psychotherapy needs the client is willing to be an active participant - for example, by doing his or her best to try the homework assignments between sessions, and understands that good therapy and change are not always a comfortable experience -though usually very beneficial and rewarding.

We want our clients to find ways to create a more fulfilling life for themselves, and we want this to happen as soon as reasonably possible. We want to earn the confidence of our clients, but more importantly we want to show them how they can have confidence in themselves by changing the way that they think or behave. We want therapy to be a positive learning experience for our clients.

In our view cognitive behavioural psychotherapy is an excellent set of methods to achieve these ends. We greatly enjoy our work. Being psychotherapists means that we experience the privilege of joining and working with people to overcome their problems even if just for a brief period of time- on their journey towards coping and then recovery.

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