What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy (often called “talk therapy”) is a structured process where a trained therapist helps a person explore thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and experiences to improve mental health and wellbeing.

Key points:

• It is a guided, reflective process

• Focuses on understanding patterns (thinking, feeling, behaving)

• Helps with issues like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and personal growth

• Usually takes place in regular sessions (e.g., weekly)

What happens in therapy:

• You talk openly about your experiences

• The therapist listens, asks questions, and helps you reflect

• Together, you develop insight, coping strategies, and new perspectives

What is an Integrative Psychotherapist?

An integrative psychotherapist doesn’t follow just one approach. Instead, they combine techniques from different therapeutic models to suit the individual.

How I Work

I use a person-centred approach that focuses on building a safe and trusting relationship first and foremost

Depending on your needs, I may draw from different therapeutic modalities:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT):
  Helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours

• Psychodynamic Therapy:
  Explores past experiences and unconscious patterns:

• Humanistic Therapy:
  Focuses on self-development, values, and personal meaning

• Attachment theory / relational approaches:
  Looks at how relationships shape emotional patterns

• Body Psychotherapy:
  Integrates Physical sensations, movement, and bodily awareness with talk therapy to help people process emotions and trauma trapped in the body

• Psychosynthesis Approach:
  Which helps people integrate difference parts of their personality leading to acceptance of each part

• Gestalt Therapy:
  Helps people increase awareness of their present moment thoughts, feelings, and actions so they take responsibility and achieve personal growth

• Internal Family Systems:
  Which views a person problems as part of their relationships and patterns within their family system

• Existential Psychotherapy:
  Is an approach that helps individuals explore the meaning, freedom, responsibility, and challenges of life to live more authentically and fully

As an Integrative psychotherapist instead of alloying a rigid model I integrate different modalities to suit the person that is the room with me

For example:

• If you need practical tools, I integrate more CBT-style techniques

• If you're exploring deeper patterns I may integrate more psychodynamic work

Works on Different Levels

Integrative therapy often looks at:

• Thoughts (what you think)

• Emotions (what you feel)

• Behaviour (what you do)

• Body responses (stress, tension)

• Life context (relationships, work, history)

Collaborative Process

• You and the I work together

• Goals are discussed and adjusted over time

• I may shift approach as your needs change

Why People Choose Integrative Therapy

• Feels more personalised

• Can adapt as things change

• Addresses both symptoms and underlying causes

• Balances practical tools + deeper exploration