Types of Therapy
Person-centred counselling, also known as client-centred therapy, is a form of therapy that focuses on the individual's unique experiences, feelings, and perspectives. Developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s, this approach believes that individuals have the innate capacity to grow, heal, and find solutions to their problems. Person-centred counselling emphasizes the importance of creating a safe and non-judgmental environment where clients can explore their thoughts and emotions freely.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an effective form of psychological treatment that is practiced by many thousands of therapists worldwide. CBT theory suggests that our thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and behavior are all connected, and that what we think and do affects the way we feel. Thousands of research trials have demonstrated that CBT is an effective treatment for conditions from anxiety and depression to pain and insomnia. It is helpful across the lifespan – children, adolescents, adults, and older adults can all benefit. CBT is flexible too – it has been proven to be effective in face-to-face, online, and self-help formats.
Creative therapies enable you to express yourself in a variety of ways, often without using words, such as through painting, drawing, photography, dance, music or drama.
A creative arts therapist will offer you a safe, non-judgmental space to help you explore what you’re feeling and how that’s reflected in your creations. Through creative materials and activities, they will support you to understand yourself better, help you to process feelings and make positive changes in your life.
Some therapists combine creative activities with talking therapy as part of their sessions. But there are also those who are trained in a specific form of art therapy and have specialist titles, such as art therapist, play therapist, music therapist and drama therapist.
Integrative counselling draws on techniques from different types of therapy to tailor an approach specifically for you.
An integrative counsellor believes there isn’t just one therapeutic approach that can help a client in all situations. Instead, they take into account you as an individual and your circumstances, and use elements of different approaches to help you explore and cope with your problems.