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Theoretical Counseling Approaches


There are three primary theoretical counselling approaches widely used to support clients in achieving positive change:

  1. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

    • Purpose: CBT helps individuals understand their conscious, subconscious, and unconscious thoughts, behaviours, and suppressed experiences that may lead to negative consequences.
    • Method: Through this understanding, clients work on creating small, achievable goals that guide them toward the desired positive outcome.
  2. Humanistic Therapy

    • Purpose: This approach assists clients in exploring and understanding their own thoughts and feelings.
    • Method: The goal is to find solutions that facilitate positive change, empowering clients to reach a better state of well-being.
  3. Person-Centered Therapy

    • Purpose: This therapy is based on the idea that clients can achieve self-actualization and become their true selves when provided with the right conditions.
    • Method: The sessions are client-led, with the counsellor supporting the exploration of thoughts and feelings. This approach helps clients gain awareness, independence, and autonomy.

    Alternative Therapeutic Approaches

    In conjunction with the primary therapies, and with the client’s agreement, we can use alternative approaches to enhance awareness, clarity, and communication both in and out of sessions. These alternative approaches can be used independently or to complement the main therapies:

    • Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
    • Schema-Focused Therapy
    • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
    • Brief Therapy
    • Systemic Therapy
    • Gestalt Therapy
    • Emotion-Focused Therapy
    • Solution-Focused Therapy
    • Existential Therapy
    • Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
    • Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
    • Adlerian Therapy

      Holistic Therapies

      Additionally, we can incorporate holistic therapies, such as:

      • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
      • Hypnotherapy

          Presenting Issues Covered

          We address a wide range of presenting issues, including:

          • Mental Health: Anxiety, depression, bereavement/loss, addiction, cultural issues, life skills, loneliness, personal development, relationships, confidence, self-esteem, social anxiety, stress, work-related issues, trauma, inferiority complexes.
          • Emotional Issues: Grief, shame, guilt, sadness, frustration, confusion.

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              Moving forward...

              Short Video Introduction

              Watch my short introduction video where I introduce myself and explain how hypnotherapy can help you.

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              How I can help...

              As a qualified counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist I am able to help with many problems but some of the most common ones are...
              • Anxiety and Stress
              • Panic Attacks
              • Bereavement, unhappiness and depression
              • Relationship difficulties
              • Confidence, self-esteem and public speaking
              • Eating disorders
              • Pain control
              • Addictions (including smoking and alcohol)
              • Sleep problems and insomnia
              • Phobias

              Find us.

              Portsmouth Office - 96 Balfour Road, Portsmouth, PO2 0NH
              Porchester Office - Trafalger House, 223 Southampton Road, Portchester, PO6 4PY


              Call us.

              07957 635781

              Email us.

              info@portsmouth-counselling.co.uk
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