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What are psychological therapies?
The term ‘psychological therapy’ refers to a range of interventions to help people understand and make changes to their thinking, behaviour and relationships to relieve distress and to improve their functioning, well-being and quality of life. -
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) uses and teaches mindfulness and acceptance strategies that help people develop psychological flexibility. -
Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
Cognitive Analytic Therapy, also known as CAT, is a talking therapy that mainly focuses on relationship patterns. -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a psychological talking therapy that helps people look at how they are thinking about themselves, the world and other people (the cognitive bit), and how what they do (the behavioural bit) affects how they are feeling. -
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a psychological treatment to assist people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder or those displaying borderline personality traits in learning and applying skills to improve their life. -
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR helps reduce the distress of all the different kinds of memories, whether it is what you saw, heard, smelt, tasted, felt or thought. -
Family Interventions
Family and systemic psychotherapy – also known as family therapy – can help those in close relationships to better understand and support each other. -
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) combines training in mindfulness meditation with elements of cognitive behavioural therapy. -
Person Centred Therapy (PCT)
Person-centred therapy is a talking therapy which allows clients to take more of a leading role in helping them develop and grow in their own way, discovering their own solutions. -
Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT)
Psychodynamic therapy is rooted in bringing forth the unconscious drivers or defences that a person uses within their interactions.
