Which Therapy is best for me?

Which Talking Therapy is Best For Me? Talking therapies Types.

There are many different types of psychological therapies. Clinical Psychologists are trained to tailor-make better therapy for you.

The choice of talking therapy is usually determined by

• your preference
• an understanding of how your problems started,
• why they are hard to change without therapy and
• what you want to change.

Research shows that therapy can help many people.

Clinical Psychologists offer Formulation (a way of understanding how the problems started and what keeps them going). This means therapy can then be targetted as needed.

Different Commonly Used Psychological Approaches

Some main approaches are listed here. Your Clinical Psychologist can combine one or more approaches to best help you.

• Cognitive Behavioural approaches (CBT)
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT)
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Solution Focussed Therapy (SFT)
• Psychodynamic
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Neuropsychological
• Systemic Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
• Integrative
• Holistic, including body work, Yoga, Tai Chi
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (tf-CBT)
• Internal Family Systems (IFS)

There are also other therapies we provide that are not listed here.

The most important question that we can help with is, What therapy approaches is most likely to work for you? What works for whom? 

Arrange to speak to a Consultant Clinical Psychologist (no charge) for a brief conversation about choice of Clinical Psychologist and which talking therapy approach/es are likely to be the best therapy for you.