LONG-TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY
SHORT-TERM EVIDENCED-BASED THERAPY
EVIDENCE-BASED COACHING

THERAPIES

LONG-TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY

This approach seeks to provide individuals with a deeper emotional understanding of their current problems and not simply an intellectual one. This model is based on Psychology of Self and incorporates trauma theory, recent neurophysiology research, attachment and developmental theory and the concept of intersubjectivity.

What is Self Psychology?

This therapy is based on the notion that at some stage in the individual’s life he or she may have experienced the failure at the hands of significant others to respond ‘empathically enough’. This may have occurred particularly in childhood and resulted in a diminished sense of well-being. The outcome has been that individuals have found it harder to cope with life’s difficulties.

“We bring to adult relationships the learned incapacities of a childhood which, even if on the whole secure, had disappointments, frustrations, misunderstandings and denials which were never resolved and whose particular patterns of interaction were the idiosyncratic outcome of unique personalities” (Maris 1996)

What does the treatment process involve?

Individual psychotherapy serves a vital function in enabling people to work through deep-seated issues that can only be addressed in the safe and holding environment of a one on one therapeutic relationship.

The Self Psychological approach places the subjective experience of the client at the very center of its clinical and theoretical concerns. Through the course of therapy, the sense of being understood allows the individual to experience and explore previously intolerable feelings. In turn a growing capacity is developed to be emotionally accessible and responsive to others. This is a long-term therapy, and is aimed at providing an opportunity for lasting change and self-understanding, rather than a “quick-fix” solution. Regular sessions are held on a weekly or twice weekly basis. Twice weekly sessions enable the therapy to reach a deeper level of intensity.

Who would benefit?

The Self Psychology approach has proved successful with those experiencing emotional difficulties, including depression, relationship problems, eating disorders and drug and alcohol problems. This approach is also used to treat those with a sense of ‘emptiness’ or lack of meaning and vitality in their lives.

SHORT-TERM EVIDENCED-BASED THERAPY

This form of therapy is for individuals and couples who are facing a range of symptoms associated with emotional, behavioral or relationship difficulties. Specific methods include; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); Interpersonal Psychotherapy; Solution Focused Therapy and Systems Theory.

EVIDENCE-BASED COACHING

This form of intervention aims to assist executives and non-executives to build their skills in facilitating change and development. Evidence-based coaching refers to coaching that is purposefully grounded in the behavioral and social sciences and is unequivocally related to existing scientific knowledge. A combination of cognitive-behavioral, solution focused and psychodynamic approaches are used