Person-centred therapy is about creating a calm, safe and trusting environment for the client. Through this space clients are able to explore their difficulties in a non-judgmental environment. Often being given the space to explore our issues can help us to understand and resolve them. This gives us a deeper understanding of ourselves and allows for personal growth.
Cognitive behavioural therapy helps us to understand how our thoughts, beliefs and assumptions affect the way we feel. This is turn impacts our behaviours and physical sensations. Sometimes, we may fall into an unhelpful cycle. CBT can help us to understand the unhelpful processes that are occurring and work towards unraveling that cycle and creating more helpful strategies.
EMDR is a type of therapy developed to help people overcome traumatic events that may have occurred in their life. Often when we experience distressing events we can process them quite naturally; after all we experience difficult life events throughout our lives. However, sometimes the processing is prevented from occurring. In these situations EMDR can be really helpful. This therapy which uses eye movements whilst thinking about the traumatic event. This always us to reprocess the event and let go of the emotions that may attached to it.
