INNER ROOTS

Integrative Counselling
Integrative counselling means combining different types of therapy according to the needs of each client and during specific times of their development. Integrative counselling allows the counsellor to explore an issue from a variety of distinct theoretical perspectives and use concepts and techniques from behavioural, psychodynamic and humanistic therapies.
 
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Person-Centred Counselling
This approach to counselling and psychotherapy sees human beings as having an innate tendency to develop towards their full potential. But this is inevitably blocked or distorted by our life experiences. Because we have a deep need to feel valued, we tend to distort or deny what we believe not to be acceptable. The counsellor or psychotherapist in this approach aims to provide an environment in which the client does not feel under threat or judgement. This enables the client to experience and accept more of who they are as a person and reconnect with their own values and sense of self-worth.
 
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Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on unconscious thought processes which manifest themselves in current behaviour. The approach seeks to increase a client's self-awareness and understanding of how the past has influenced present thoughts and behaviours. Clients are encouraged to explore unresolved issues and conflicts, and to talk about important people and relationships in their life.
 
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Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt (meaning whole) Therapy focuses on the whole of an individual's experience; their thoughts, feelings and actions. The main goal of this approach is for the individual to achieve a sense of wholeness, integrating mind, body and soul. A therapist will constantly promote the client's awareness creating experiences to remove obstacles created by past experiences.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the 'here and now' and it is based on the principle that the way we perceive situations influences how we feel about them. It is effective for individuals who require treatment for some sort of behaviour change, such as addictions, phobias and anxiety disorders.  Identifying these thoughts and how they can be problematic to feelings and behaviours can enable individuals to challenge negative ways of thinking, leading to positive feelings and behavioural changes.
 
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Art Therapy
Art Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses art materials as tools to allow access into difficult emotional areas and can benefit those who find it difficult to express their emotions verbally. Clients are encouraged to communicate through creative expression explore the meanings of their work.

Working with photographs, personal and family snap shots or generic images can also aid the therapeutic process as it allows access to feelings and memeories and nurtures creative thinking and communication.