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We work with a wide range of mental health difficulties including anxiety, depression, PTSD, stress, trauma, OCD, relationship difficulties and adjustment to physical illness .

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a talking therapy that enables you to explore the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

We work to identify and change unhelpful thinking styles and patterns of behaviour to improve mood, reduce anxiety and develop practical strategies for improving your wellbeing on a daily basis.

Unlike some other talking treatments, CBT deals with your current problems rather than focusing on issues from your past.

You will develop strategies to change how you think and behave.

During your CBT sessions you and your Psychologist will map out how your difficulties started, what the current triggers are, and how certain thoughts, emotional responses and behaviours are maintaining the problem. You will have a copy of this map so that you can keep it on your phone and begin to recognise for yourself when these triggers are occurring.

Next there will be a session of psychoeducation, or what we like to call ‘the interesting bit’. This is where you learn about why your brain and body respond to certain events in unhelpful ways (spoiler alert: evolution probably has a big role to play in it). This understanding is key to then being able to tackle it in more helpful ways.

Together with your Psychologist, you will develop strategies to change how you think and behave, so that you can start living the life that you really want, instead of being weighed down by limiting beliefs and actions.

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This has changed my life totally.

For most of my life the OCD controlled me, but after working with Sophie I now control the OCD. This has changed my life totally. I’m far more at ease than I have ever been in my life. I can now ride the wave of OCD without feeling overwhelmed.

She is warm, trusting, genuine

Sophie has an extensive breadth of knowledge and clinical expertise which she brings to the supervisory relationship. She is warm, trusting, genuine and empathic and her supervisory style enables a safe supervision environment.

we can talk through and resolve any difficulties

After coming to see Sophie we are communicating so much better. We have a better understanding of our relationship values and we can talk through and resolve any difficulties before they escalate into an argument

I am so, so glad I visited Sophie.

I am so, so glad I visited Sophie. She was welcoming, sympathetic and got to the heart of my long-term problems in an unhurried but professional way. She gave me some excellent strategies for coping that I am still using.

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