Therapeutic approaches
CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
CBT uses strategies to challenge unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns. It is goal-focused and involves some work between sessions to help clients achieve the best results.
I-CBT (Inference-Based CBT)
I-CBT is a comprehensive evidence-based framework designed for OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder) that helps people to understand underlying obsessional doubts more fully and to learn not to be pulled into the obsessional stories that these doubts create.
ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention)
ERP is an evidence-based form of CBT in which you gradually and deliberately face the thoughts, images or situations that trigger your anxiety while resisting the urge to carry out physical compulsions or avoidances, so that over time the anxiety, or OCD, fades. I also use RF-ERP (Rumination-Focused Exposure and Response Prevention), which involves learning techniques to disengage from compulsive rumination and to regain a sense of agency over this thinking pattern.
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
ACT is an evidence-based form of CBT that, rather than challenging distressing thoughts, teaches techniques for stepping back from them so they have less influence on behaviour. It combines this with clarifying personal values, so that clients can act in line with their goals even when anxiety or intrusive thoughts are present.
TEAM-CBT
TEAM-CBT is a framework that pulls in both CBT techniques and other approaches (including some psychoanalytic concepts) to find the best combination of techniques for a client. It focuses closely on any kind of unconscious resistance that may be preventing change and offers lots of different approaches to help challenge negative thoughts and behaviours.