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COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL
THERAPY (CBT)
A long
standing therapy that has been
used in psychology for many
years, CBT is based on the principle that our thinking patterns can be
altered with reasoned thought, explanation, knowledge and most
importantly practice! CBT is commonly used for treating
depression, anxiety, stress, mood swings and so on. Alongside
CBT, techniques and strategies such as desensitisation, affirmations,
directive thinking etc, assist in giving tools to control mood,
impulsivity, insecurity, self esteem, self worth and so on.
PAIN
MANAGEMENT
Pain
Management Counselling is really of combination of all other
therapies with the focus on controlling pain. How that
combination is determined is influenced strongly by the patient's
extent of pain, its nature and the current situation that the patient
is in. This means that sometimes the therapy will be mostly
Theta
Healing, and on other times it will be Hypnosis, and then again the
focus could be on management of other factors such as daily activities,
day to day lifestyle, patterns of behaviour and medication.
We
do
an extensive
amount of pain
management work in this practice and
as a consequence we have developed a great deal of knowledge and
experience in assisting patients with their pain.
STRESS
MANAGEMENT
Similar
to pain management counselling, stress management
counselling is about using a combination of all other therapies to
focus on controlling a person's stress. This stress can come
from
a range of sources and the management of those sources is part of the
key to controlling stress. The other component of stress
management is changing the way we interpret the stress around us and
finally developing strategies and coping methods that get our stress
under control.
Stress
management is
about common sense,
making hard decisions and
removing those values and belief systems we have that make us
susceptible to stress in the first instance.
HYPNOSIS
Hypnosis
became very popular in the 1940's as a revolutionary tool for
controlling pain, resolving emotional issues and changing abnormal or
undesirable behaviour (smoking comes to mind). Unfortunately,
it
became demonised by Hollywood, where it was depicted as some sort of
mind control method. The reality is that hypnosis is a very
useful tool for the control of pain, resolution of grief and other
emotions and for learning self control, insight and getting into
emotional contact with ourselves.
Despite
the popular
myth, while under
hypnosis, you cannot be made to
do anything you dont want to do. Similarly, when being
hypnotised
you do not feel like a zombie, rather hypnotic states are one of being
very relaxed and having a clear mind and being focused. Most
people experience hypnosis as relaxing, pleasant and feel energised and
motivated afterwards.
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