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EMDR is a psychological therapy for trauma and some other mental health needs. It can be used to treat:
It is recognised by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and trauma.
The therapist will carry out an assessment to work out if EMDR is appropriate for the client and their presenting needs.
The therapist will spend time preparing the client for therapy and ensure that they have been supported and enabled to develop a number of emotional coping strategies. These along with other support provided in therapy aim to give the client more control of what happens in the work.
When people are involved in a distressing event or situation they may feel overwhelmed by it. As a consequence they may not be fully able to make sense out of what happened. The brain is then not able to transfer what happened to long term memory. Instead the event or situation remains ‘alive’ as recent event and can be re-lived by the individual. In EMDR the threat system is unlocked and as a consequence the client can process and make sense of the situation and the event is then stored as an ordinary memory and can be recalled without the re-living and the distress.
Your therapy Bryan will explain the process in greater detail during your initial assessment / review.
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Bryan is trained and qualified to provide mindfulness based interventions, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy training and Compassionate Mind / Living training. He has also completed training to support the delivery of group therapy.
Bryan (Mindfully-Resilient) has delivered the 8 week MBCT course to a number of organisations. The training has many benefits for individuals who attend and wider benefits for organisations were the training is used to support staff well-being.
Firstly mindfulness based cognitive therapy is recognised by NICE (The National Institute of Clinical Excellence) for depression and research evidence suggests that mindfulness (MBCT) can help prevent relapse by 43% (Mark et al, 2014). Other research shows similar improvements when using mindfulness to support people who experience anxiety (Surawy et al, 2014). Again similar findings are noted with the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (Hertenstein et al, 2012).
People who attend mindfulness based courses also report changes in focus, concentration, general wellbeing, self-compassion and memory recall. There is growing evidence to support the use of mindfulness based training in the reduction of stress in employees (Morgan et al, 2014).
MBCT is provided in a group setting and is therefore cost effective for organisations. Mindfully-Resilient has provided this training in the afternoon / evening to enable employees to attend on site and therefore ensuring that the training is accessible and locally delivered.
MBCT teaches group participants skills to help them to step back from unhelpful and habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and responding to life.
Group participants attend an 8 week training program. The course is usually provided in the evening and people attend for 2 hours each evening.
Bryan can provide MBCT courses for your staff to support your employee wellbeing strategy. If you would like to discuss practicalities and costs please contact him directly.
Bryan has provided training in resilience and mental wellbeing to employees across a wide number of organisations.
His current training includes:
Increasing staff awareness about the causes and symptoms of stress
Introducing a conversational method of resilience and wellbeing planning that can be used by attendees or managers to speak about and plan for recovery and maintenance of wellbeing
Engaging attendees in a number of evidence based interventions to enhance coping, promote self-compassion and self-awareness.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps you to make connections between your thinking, emotion and your coping behaviours. However, cognitive therapy should not be only about your thinking but should also include support to help you develop new and more effective emotional coping strategies. It tends to be a short term therapy but does not have to be.
In fact you can see a therapist for a longer period of time in order to better understand your core beliefs and how these impact on your thoughts, emotions and coping. We have both positive and negative core beliefs that can form over our early life experience and effect our coping in the here and now. It is sometimes important to understand our history and how we gained such beliefs and better understand the assumptions we make about ourselves, others and the future. But we can develop new, more adaptive ways of seeing ourselves, the word, and others and thus means that we can learn new rules for living that can free us up and help us to live a more fulfilled life.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a collaborative process. You and Bryan will work together to assess and understand your specific needs. Together you will agree a treatment process that may last between 8 to 20 weeks. The length of treatment depends on why you are coming to therapy and what therapy you have previously engaged in.
A session will last 50 minutes
Some people like CBT because it is structured and tends to focus on current needs. This means that you may not necessarily need to discuss your personal history in-depth. However, it can be important to account for early life experience and therefore you and your therapist may wish to discuss this further (for example if you are working in core beliefs).
There are ‘specialist’ forms of CBT and this includes Trauma focused CBT. Bryan is trained and qualified to provide this treatment also. However, if you are seeking therapy for PTSD or trauma experiences then you may also benefit from EMDR.
Third Wave CBT can also include other therapies such as mindfulness and compassionate mind and these treatment approaches also support one to cope more effectively with emotions.
CBT is a talking therapy. It has been sown to be effective with a wide number of psychological and mental health related needs.
It is a collaborative approach as both the client and therapist work together to firstly understand presenting needs and then find solutions to support and help the person to recover.
More often than not, we think, feel and react to situations in a particular way. Our thoughts, emotions and behaviour are related to our experiences in childhood, life experience and the circumstances that we live in (life events etc).
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Client and therapist work together to find links and patterns that connect thinking, feeling and behaviour and then relate this to how the client is presently coping with life.
Together they will develop a shared understanding of how these needs came about and what keeps these going (we call this a formulation). The focus in therapy can be here and now but you may also reflect on past life experience.
The client and Therapist then work together to identify goals that can be focused upon during the course of therapy. The overall aim of CBT is to learn more helpful ways of relating to our experiences and develop new or enhanced ways of coping for the future.
You may be asked to complete tasks between sessions and these are important as they will assist you to use the time with your therapist well. You will be able to put into practice the things that you have talked about in therapy.
CBT is often delivered over 10 to 20 sessions but this may be shorter or longer. Sessions are weekly but may get less frequent as therapy progresses.
The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended CBT for:
There is some evidence that CBT can help with sleep problems, sexual and relationship needs and coping with chronic pain.
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