Psychological Services
Psychological Therapies used at Psych Solutions.
Psychologists use a range of evidence based therapeutic methods to promote health and wellbeing. Focused Psychology approaches are useful treatment approaches.
At Marriage Works well researched practical support is tailored to meet your specific needs. I will be choosing elements useful to you from one or several of the approaches listed below:
- � The Systemic Approach looks beyond the individual level, into the patterns and interactions that occur in our relationships, and how these influence ourselves and others. This well respected and empirical approach is a therapy of choice for family and couple counselling.
- � Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a counselling approach that helps by providing you with strategies to turn negative thinking patterns and behaviours into positive ones.
- Solution Focused Therapy is an approach which focuses on your strengths here and now. It asks what is working for you and promotes an optimistic future based on your strengths. This treatment operates on finding the positive outlook that will generate change for you and supporting your progress to that goal.
- Narrative Therapy is a collaborative journey where the stories of your life are explored and meaning made from that experience. Pioneered by the late Michael White, it is a contemporary approach that acknowledges you have many different stories and multiple realities. �You are not the problem, the problem is the problem� separates your fears from the real issues.
- � Emotion Focused Therapy. Current brain research tells us the role of emotion in human functioning is centrally important in the experience of the self, and healthy and unhelpful interactions with others. This treatment integrates elements of Person Centred and Gestalt Practice with modern emotion theory.
- � Imago Relationship Therapy. Developed by Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen Lakelly-Hunt, this therapy works on our early child hood experiences (�attachment� in therapy speak) and how our wants and needs play out in our interactions and relationships with others. In love they suggest we seek out our �Imago� as a guide to heal past hurts.
- � Emotional Freedom Technique �the work of Dr Roger Callahan and Gary Craig uses the ideas from Applied Kinesiology, to free clients from trauma and negative emotional responses caused by imbalances in the body�s energy system. I have used it successfully and quickly to work through depression, guilt, anger, insomnia, grief, fear, incest, sexual abuse, Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) anxiety, chronic pain, irregular heart beat, panic attacks and shame.
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction addresses both physical health and emotional wellbeing. Based on present moment awareness of ourselves and our experiences, Mindfulness Meditation offers you acceptance, compassion and relief, regardless of what is happening in your life. Engaging with your life in this manner enables greater creative response and deeper connectedness, and gives you insight to free yourself from habitual patterns of reactivity, anger, anxiety, depression and general unease. I can give this simple but effective approach a big tick, since I practice mindfulness myself, as a gentle but powerful way to handle stress.
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Philipa Thornton is an experienced and qualified Sydney registered psychologist offering relationship counselling, marriage and couple counselling with you the individual or couple in mind.
Based in the Eastern Suburbs, serving the Sydney CBD, Inner West Suburbs and North Sydney — including but not limited to : Coogee, Randwick, Maroubra, Surry Hills, Newtown, Balmain, Rozelle, Malabar; Kensington, Kingsford, Bondi Junction, Bondi, Darling Point, Edgecliff, Kings Cross, Kirribilli, Rose Bay, Double Bay, Paddington, Bellevue Hill, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Glebe, Forest Lodge, Darlinghurst, Sydney Central, Broadway, Ultimo, Pyrmont, North Sydney, Neutral Bay, Clovelly, Bronte, Charing Cross, Point Piper, Rose Bay, Vaucleuse, Mosman, Woolloomooloo and Woollahra.
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