Castle Counselling
COUNSELLING IN Colchester, Braintree, Essex, Suffolk and online
Therapies Offered
Person-Centred Therapy
Person-centred therapy, also known as client-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach. It explores how you consciously perceive yourself rather than how a counsellor can interpret your unconscious thoughts or ideas. This type of humanistic psychology believes we all contain untapped potential and focuses on maximising your ability to find solutions with my support. Person-centred therapy works on the premise that you have all the answers from within to thrive.
We guide and support you to find the answers so that you can speak freely and openly. The core purpose of person-centred therapy is to help you self-actualise and fulfil your potential. It is a non-directive approach, where you lead each therapy session. Together, you are supported in increasing self-awareness and clarity while enhancing self-esteem and self-confidence. The approach helps you reconnect with your values and sense of self-worth, enabling you to find your way to move forward.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT works on how you think and behave and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different issues by identifying and restructuring negative behaviour patterns. Changing or re-conditioning our thoughts or behaviour can overcome specific problems. CBT takes a more proactive approach to changing disordered or negative ways of thinking, where you can learn strategies to manage your mental health for the rest of your life.
The core idea behind CBT is that your thoughts and actions create your emotional states. These emotional states lead you to either feel stuck and do nothing or do things you regret. CBT introduces new skills to unlearn old patterns that keep you stuck so you are better equipped to overcome challenging emotions and situations. CBT helps you understand why and how you react to challenges so you can revise your approach and respond more effectively. CBT improves problem-solving skills and widens your mindset into more helpful positive thinking.
Play Therapies
Children can start developing patterns of behaviour that can cause disruption in their lives and play therapy is used to help children communicate at their level and pace. It is a type of therapy that allows children to find healthier ways to express themselves, as well as to explore their thoughts and feelings, so they can make sense of their life experiences.
Play is a natural part of learning, exploration and communication for children. The main aim is to equip children with adaptive behaviours and better coping mechanisms for everyday life, so they develop a more positive view of their place in the world. Play is vital for a child's development - helping to shape key social, creative, language, emotional, cognitive and physical processes. Play therapy also offers children a safe and comfortable space, where they can be themselves and have the emotional support to express their feelings freely.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques aimed at enhancing self-awareness, increasing confidence, building communication skills, and motivating positive social actions. NLP is intended to help you understand your mind and how you come to think and behave the way you do. With NLP techniques, you can learn to manage your moods and emotions - and reprogram how you process information. NLP therapists believe that their clients have the answers to their problems within themselves; it is simply a matter of helping them draw out those answers.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma-Focused Therapy is a specific approach to therapy that recognises and emphasises understanding how the traumatic experience impacts a person’s mental, behavioural, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and the individual emotional and behavioural responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist you in better understanding, coping with, processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences. The end goal is to enable you to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in your life.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is a form of body-centred therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both psychotherapy and physical therapies for holistic healing. In addition to talk therapy, somatic therapy practitioners use mind-body exercises and other physical techniques to help release the pent-up tension that negatively affects a person’s physical and emotional wellbeing. In Somatic therapy mind and body are intimately connected, though not always in apparent ways. Thought, emotions, and sensations are all believed to be interconnected and influence one another.