Sometimes you might find yourself being really sensitive and feeling overwhelmed with emotions that are coming out of nowhere, often flying off the handle, or being tearful and upset.

You might not be feeling yourself, like you are carrying a huge weight and you don’t know what it is or why. It might be that you feel really tense, and ‘on-edge’ and it’s difficult to relax.

It can also be that you feel totally shut-off from others, detached and disconnected, feeling empty and numb. Life has lost its colour.

Others constantly feel guilty, find it really hard to say no to others, and live in a constant state of never being good enough. Some people have a very strong inner critical voice which robs them of joy and whose standards they can never meet.

These difficulties are things which psychological therapy can help to understand and address. We frequently work with people who have a personality or clinical diagnosis. We work together to develop a formulation of the persons difficulties to enhance their understanding of how their difficulties developed, rather than focus overly on their diagnosis. We can also collaboratively devise a formulation informed by the Power Threat Meaning Framework, if desired. 

We frequently work with people who have tried lots of other therapies, but who do not feel that they have gotten to the root of the issue. Schema Therapy helps us get to the core of the issue & provides a map for how to move forward. 

Our service focuses on providing a very high quality service, with highly trained and expert Psychologists who strive to provide top quality therapy. 
 
While we specialize in Schema Therapy, we are experienced in a variety of modalities including mindfulness based approaches (ACT & DBT) and psychodynamic approaches. We are a climate crisis aware service and a health at every size service. Dr Sarah Thompson & Dr Hilary Kloss are Advanced Accredited Schema Therapists with the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). 

Therapy predominantly involves talking, but also makes use of experiential methods such as mindfulness skills, imagery and other techniques. 

Currently therapy is offered online via Zoom.