Therapies

I draw upon a range of therapeutic approaches and if you are curious, they are described below. However, my role is to individually tailor our work together so that your experience in therapy is unique, specialised and aligned to our collaborative goals.

“Connection is why we are here: it is what gives meaning and purpose to our lives”

- Brene Brown

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on helping patients to behave more consistently with their own values and apply mindfulness and acceptance skills to their responses to uncontrollable experiences.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Emma has trained in the treatment of both adults and children in EMDR.

  • In play therapy, children can play out, literally and/or metaphorically, their inner and real-life experiences in a way that builds insight and capacity. Play therapy allows children to express, regulate, communicate, practice and master new skills as well as their emotional responses. Australian Psychological Society

  • Interpersonal psychotherapy therapy based on attachment and interpersonal theories. It focuses on resolving interpersonal issues and boosting social functioning to improve mental health functioning.

  • CBT helps people identify and change patterns of thinking and behaviour that are harmful or ineffective and works toward replacing them with more accurate thoughts and more helpful and functional behaviours.

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a type of psychotherapy that involves a combination of cognitive therapy, meditation, and the cultivation of a present-oriented, non-judgmental attitude called "mindfulness”

  • A psychotherapeutic that helps clients reinterpret and rewrite their life events into true but more life-enhancing narratives or stories. Central to the Narrative approach is that individuals are primarily meaning-making beings who can reauthor their life stories in a more helpful light. American Psychological Association

  • Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the psychological roots of emotional suffering. Its hallmarks are self-reflection and self-examination, and the use of the relationship between therapist and patient as a window into problematic relationship patterns in the patient’s life. Its goal is not only to alleviate the most obvious symptoms but to help people lead healthier lives. American Psychological Association