Types of therapy

The most heavily researched method in psychotherapy. It works on the link between thought, emotion and behaviour, with homework between sessions.

• Anxiety disorders (generalised, social, panic)
• Mild-to-moderate depression
• Specific phobias

A trauma method using bilateral stimulation. It doesn't require narrating the event in detail — which is why it is bearable when talking isn't.

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Single-incident trauma — accident, assault, sudden loss
• Childhood trauma (with extended stabilisation)

The modern descendant of psychoanalysis. It looks for the pattern repeating beneath the symptom, not just the symptom. Longer, deeper, no homework.

• Relational patterns that keep repeating
• Chronic or recurrent depression
• Personality disorders

For emotions that arrive too fast and too hard. It teaches four concrete skill sets: distress tolerance, emotion regulation, mindfulness, relationships.

• Borderline personality disorder
• Self-harm and recurrent suicidal urges
• Intense emotional dysregulation

It doesn't try to change your thoughts, but your relationship to them. The goal isn't to feel good, it's to live by your values even when you don't.

• Chronic anxiety and persistent worry
• Chronic pain and long-term illness
• Depression with avoidance

It treats the family as a system, not one person as the fault. One member's symptom is often the solution the system found to a problem nobody names.

• Parent-adolescent conflict
• Eating disorders in adolescents
• Families separated by migration or reunited after years

The best-evidenced couples method. It doesn't teach communication techniques — it untangles the cycle where one pursues and the other withdraws.

• Repetitive arguments on the same themes
• Emotional distance and estrangement
• Rebuilding trust after infidelity

It works with what's happening now, in the room, not the story about the past. Experiential and direct — you'll do things, not just talk about them.

• Emotional blocks and a sense of numbness
• Unfinished grief
• Unresolved relationships with parents

No techniques, no homework, no interpretations. It bets everything on the relationship — and research shows the relationship is the best predictor of outcome in all of psychotherapy.

• Mild-to-moderate depression
• Periods of transition and difficult decisions
• Low self-esteem and self-criticism

A structured 8-week group programme. Built specifically to prevent relapse into depression — not to treat an episode in progress.

• Relapse prevention after repeated depressive episodes
• Rumination and circular thinking
• Chronic background anxiety

For lifelong patterns, not recent symptoms. It combines CBT, attachment and experiential techniques — built for the cases where classical CBT wasn't enough.

• Relational patterns repeating across a lifetime
• Personality disorders
• Chronic depression resistant to CBT

For children who don't yet have the language of emotion. Play is the medium in which a six-year-old says what they can't explain — and parents are part of the process.

• Children aged 3-11
• Anxiety and fears in young children
• Adjustment after divorce, a move or hospitalisation