How I work
My main theoretical approach is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) but I use an integrative model of counselling and work according to my clients’ needs drawing on a variety of therapeutic approaches such as Mindfulness, Compassion Focused Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and Attachment Theory.
The areas I cover include:
- addiction
- adoption
- anger
- anxiety, including OCD, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, panic attacks, and school, health and social anxiety
- assertiveness
- asylum issues
- attachment
- bereavement
- depression
- disability or chronic health
- domestic violence
- eating disorders
- life transitions, redundancy, retirement
- personal growth
- phobias
- post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- relationship and marriage difficulties, and divorce or separation
- self esteem
- self harm
- sexual abuse and survivor work
- sexual difficulties
- trauma and dissociation
- work stress or bullying
The number of sessions required often depends on client difficulties and the longevity of them. I am able to provide short and long term work according to my clients’ requirements which will be discussed in the first session.
When clients have limited mobility I am happy to provide counselling in their own homes. I am also able to support clients with exposure work that may take place outside of the counselling room. This is sometimes necessary with school phobia, agoraphobia, etc. Telephone and Skype counselling are also an option.
“What was most helpful about my sessions was understanding how I saw myself in the world. This gave me the opportunity to ‘see’ from a different viewpoint, thereby unlocking my ‘self’ to believe that I could and can live today, not as I had been, wrongly accepting that life was a fixed cycle. Even if I cannot change my history, I can change the way my history is allowed to affect me today.” — Male, 56 years old
© 2016 sarah eva. a soltenviva development.