The 12-step addiction recovery approach is a structured framework designed to help individuals overcome addiction and maintain long-term sobriety. Originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), it has since been adapted for various substance and behavioural addictions.

Applied psychology uses psychological principles to address real-world challenges, improving well-being, performance, and decision-making across various fields.

A medico-legal assessment is an evaluation conducted by healthcare professionals to provide expert medical evidence for legal cases. It helps determine the impact of psychological conditions in legal contexts such workplace disputes or criminal proceedings.

Behavioural therapy is a therapeutic approach that uses a range of techniques to foster positive behaviour change. Also known as behaviour therapy, it focuses on identifying and changing undesirable or unhelpful behaviours. The underlying principle is that behaviours are learned, which means they can also be unlearned through therapy.

Breathwork therapy is a therapeutic practice that uses controlled breathing techniques to promote relaxation, emotional release, and overall well-being. It helps regulate the nervous system, reduce stress, and enhance self-awareness by focusing on intentional breath patterns.

The Chartered Psychology therapy approach refers to therapeutic practices led by Chartered Psychologists, who are accredited professionals recognised by the British Psychological Society. These psychologists use evidence-based methods tailored to individual needs, drawing from various psychological frameworks such as CBT, ACT, psychodynamic approaches, and humanistic therapy.

The coaching approach is a structured method that helps individuals achieve personal or professional goals through guided self-reflection and skill development. It focuses on empowerment, accountability, and growth, using techniques like goal-setting, active listening, and constructive feedback.

CFT is a psychological approach designed to help individuals cultivate self-compassion and regulate emotions, particularly in cases of shame, self-criticism, and trauma.

Counselling is a form of talking therapy where a trained professional helps individuals explore their thoughts, emotions, and challenges in a safe, supportive environment.

Couple and marriage counselling helps partners improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen emotional bonds in a supportive therapeutic setting.

An existential psychotherapy based on the concept of dasein (being-there) as developed by Medard Boss based on the work of Heidegger. It seeks to understand a person’s way of being in the world rather than focusing on symptoms and inner psychic mechanisms.

Dramatherapy is a creative form of psychotherapy that uses drama, storytelling, movement, and role-play to help individuals explore emotions, process experiences, and foster personal growth.

Equine therapy is a therapeutic approach that involves interactions with horses to support emotional, psychological, and behavioural well-being. It is used to help individuals develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, confidence, and social skills. Rather than riding, sessions often focus on grooming, feeding, and leading horses, allowing participants to build trust and communication in a non-judgmental environment.

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is a structured psychotherapy designed to help individuals process and recover from traumatic experiences that impact mental health. It involves bilateral stimulation, often through guided eye movements, to help the brain reprocess distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a specific form of therapy designed to enhance emotional bonds in relationships. It focuses on attachment theory and helps couples and families strengthen emotional connections by addressing negative interaction patterns.

ERP is a structured therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder that helps individuals confront fears while resisting compulsive behaviours, reducing anxiety over time.

Fashion therapy explores the psychological and emotional impact of clothing choices, using fashion as a tool for self-expression, confidence-building, and healing.

Gestalt therapy aims to help people develop greater self-awareness so that they can more confidently reach their full potential and effectively manage any problems as they come to the surface. Gestalt therapy works by teaching clients how to define what is truly being experienced, rather than what is merely an interpretation of the events.

Humanistic therapy is a broad approach that emphasizes personal growth, self-awareness, and the belief that individuals have the capacity for self-healing. It focuses on holistic well-being, encouraging people to explore their emotions and experiences in a supportive environment.

It is a form of couples counselling designed to help partners overcome conflict and build stronger connections by understanding the impact of past childhood experiences on their current relationships- based on the idea that we’re drawn to partners who embody aspects of our childhood caregivers, known as our “Imago”.

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is an accelerated model of dynamic psychotherapy. ISTDP comprises a set of powerful interventions to alleviate symptoms of emotional distress and to promote mental health in a rapid and cost-effective way. The focus is on the unconscious emotional processes that underlie many psychological as well as somatic difficulties.

IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self.

Jungian therapy, is a form of talk therapy developed by Carl Jung that focuses on bringing balance between the conscious and unconscious aspects of the mind. It aims to help individuals achieve a sense of wholeness and self-realisation by exploring the unconscious and integrating it with the conscious mind.

It’s a method of relaxation and consciousness expansion by focusing on a mantra or a keyword, sound, or image while eliminating outside stimuli from one’s awareness.

Mindfulness is being aware of internal thoughts, feelings, and emotions, as well as external surroundings and situations, without automatic responses such as judgment or stress. Mindfulness therapy is a type of talk therapy that focuses on learning how to be more aware and to reduce automatic responses.

A form of psychotherapy that emphasises the stories people tell about their lives to make sense of their experiences and construct their identities.

Neurofeedback is a therapeutic technique where individuals are trained to self-regulate their brainwave activity using real-time feedback. This process, a type of biofeedback, helps individuals learn to modify their brain activity and potentially improve various aspects of mental and physical health.

Past life regression therapy (PLR) uses hypnosis to help individuals access and explore memories of previous lives, aiming to gain insights into current life issues and find healing. This approach, while not scientifically proven, can be used to address various problems like phobias, addictions, and relationship difficulties.

Person-centred care, also known as patient-centred care, focuses on the individual’s needs, preferences, and values when delivering healthcare or support services. It involves working in partnership with the person to ensure their care is personalised, coordinated, and enabling, allowing them to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. 

Pluralistic therapy has been designed as a framework to allow therapists and clients to work together to find the best way of addressing clients’ concerns, using ideas and methods from both the therapy literature and the client’s life experience.

Positive psychology therapy is a type of therapy that focuses on enhancing well-being, resilience, and personal growth by emphasising positive emotions, strengths, and character virtues.

Psychodrama is a form of group psychotherapy that uses spontaneous dramatisation, role-playing, and dramatic self-presentation to help participants gain insight into their lives and work through personal and interpersonal issues. It involves actors portraying various roles and situations, allowing participants to explore their emotions, relationships, and experiences in a safe and supportive environment.

It is a talking therapy that helps individuals and couples address sexual difficulties and improve their sexual well-being.

Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), a form of hybrid therapy, aims to quickly address underlying issues and beliefs that may be holding individuals back. It utilises principles from hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to help clients achieve lasting change in a relatively short timeframe.

Sand tray therapy is a form of expressive therapy where individuals create miniature scenes in a sand-filled tray using various objects and figures to symbolically represent their inner world and emotions. It’s a non-verbal approach that can help individuals express themselves, explore their feelings, and gain insights into their thoughts and experiences.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a goal-oriented, short-term therapy that emphasizes solutions rather than problems. It helps individuals identify their strengths and build on them to create meaningful change.

Strength-based therapy is talk therapy that guides you toward a retelling of your personal history of traumas, stressors, and pain with more emphasis on yourself as a survivor than as a victim, and more emphasis on your strengths and survival skills than on your weakness.

Systemic therapy focuses on the interactions and relationships between the group to help them address any problems and to move on. It gives all the members of the group the chance to explore their feelings and say what they think in a safe, non-judgmental environment.

Time Line Therapy® involves treatment at an unconscious level and allows a client to surrender negative emotions linked to past experiences and transform their internal programming.

Transpersonal therapy is a humanistic approach to therapy that explores the spiritual and transcendent aspects of human experience, aiming to help individuals achieve a deeper understanding of themselves and their place in the world. It’s based on the belief that the human psyche is aspirational and can reach a transformative state beyond the limitations of the ego.