Therapy
Individual Therapy for Adults and Older Adults
Clinical psychotherapeutic interventions for the ‘mind’ focus on identifying and changing negative thought patterns that contribute to emotional distress.
At Mind and Matter Psychology, we use a practical, goal-based approach to help clients learn to reframe thinking, and provide strategies to improve quality of life.
We offer psychological therapy for:
Adjusting to life transitions and changes
Making meaning of a changed life
Grief and loss
Medical and neurological conditions
Caring responsibilities/strain and burnout
Low mood/depression
Anxiety
Traumatic experiences (in the past and now)
Current and previous defence forces service
Needing to develop new coping strategies
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
Therapeutic Modalities
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
A structured, goal-oriented therapy to understand patterns of unhelpful thoughts about yourself (core beliefs), situations, others, and the world more generally that contribute to distress and reduce mental health. The foundation of modern psychotherapy.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Learning about the ‘opposites’ in lives that people can move between. Learn the middle ground, mindfullness, and relationships skills for cohesive, centered experiences.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT builds upon CBT by emphasising acceptance of the negative can also be psychologically beneficial when on the way to committing to living life according to your personal values and goals.
Motivational Interviewing
Exploring the desire to change versus what keeps you stuck to build motivation and achieve your goals.
Schema Therapy
When learnt ways about the world stem from earlier experiences, accompany us in life, and are the reasons we act the way we do now… unless we recognise and change them.
Narrative Therapy
For people with dementia, narrative therapy offers person-centered memory recall, giving a voice to and honouring the person and their life experiences.
