At Specialist Therapies, therapy can be face-to-face or virtual. Virtual has been extremely popular and allows more flexibility in terms of travel time or homelife. Sometimes people can do both. The choice is up to you.
SPECIALIST THERAPIES WELCOMES YOU
Mental Health Recovery With Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) & EMDR
Feeling stuck? Sometimes life can become difficult or even unbearable. Sometimes these feelings can be caused by life's events, and sometimes there just doesn't seem to be an explanation for how we feel.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can help you understand and manage whatever life throws at you, we believe that you have the strength not just to survive, but to truly thrive.
BEGIN WITH A FREE CONSULTATION
Therapy is a big step, so we feel it is essential to have a chat about a way forward before you potentially commit to anything. In confidence, we can out more about your problem(s) and discuss how you might move forward. This may only take a short time. It is free and is usually over the telephone or over Zoom/Teams.
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SCHEDULE A THERAPY SESSION
Want to hear more about how we can help? Contact us today to schedule a session.
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ABOUT SPECIALIST THERAPIES
Therapies Tailored for Your Recovery
Specialist Therapies (Aberdeen) was set up in response to the need for recovery for all kinds individuals whose lives have been hampered by distressing symptoms of anxiety and depression. These issues can affect anybody, and will probably affect everybody at some point in their lives. Learning to understand the problem and having the tools at your disposal can help you recover now and help you stay well in the future.
Get in touch today to see what I can do for you. As well as recovery methods such as Cognitive Behavoiural Therapy (CBT) other approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) can help unblock problems from the past that have a strong influence on how we think and feel now, stopping us from fulfilling our potential.
COMMON PROBLEMS
Treated with CBT, EMDR and Other Therapies
The following are typical examples of problems treated with CBT and EMDR. It is very common to have more than one problem combined.
DEPRESSION
MOOD SWINGS
ADDICTIONS
GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER
BI-POLAR ILLNESS (BORDERLINE PD).
PANIC ATTACKS
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)
INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS
HOARDING
SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER
AGORAPHOBIA
SPECIFIC PHOBIA (FEAR OF ANIMALS, DENTIST, MEDICAL PROCEDURES ETC)
HEALTH ANXIETY DISORDER (HYPOCHONDRIA)
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS)
STRESS MANGEMENT
HEARING VOICES AND SEEING VISIONS
INSOMNIA
All of the above problems are more common than you would think, and can cause individuals a great deal of trouble in their lives. It can certainly be the case that they occur in combination with one another, or they can also appear in isolation.
They can appear suddenly out of the blue. Sometimes problems like this have been around for years, sometimes appearing as slightly worse or slightly better. Either way they are simply not fair, you don't deserve them in your life, and Specialist Therapies can help.
SO HOW CAN JUST TALKING HELP?
CBT is a Psychological Therapy, as is Counselling. EMDR is a little different and more linked to moving on from troublesome memories using eye movement or stimulating the body. All of these approaches are researched and designed to help people either move on from where they are or to help people to have the skills and confidence to manage their own symptoms. Sometimes people think that this just involves talking. This is part of it yes, but the main idea is to have a shared understanding about how your problem affects you now, how it formed, and what keeps it going. A therapy like CBT allows you to understand the problem and allows you to make new choices in how you think and how you behave. Focus is made on how your life is restricted by the problem. We look together at the kinds of things you would like to do (goals) and we work to change thought patterns and behaviours that prevent you from fulfilling your life. CBT and EMDR are highly researched all over the world, so there is a huge amount of evidence that they are effective treatments.
PRICE LIST & OPTIONS
For Treatment
These are the options you have for treatment with Specialist Therapies. An appointment will be usually made based on a standard CBT session rate to determine the best way forward for you and to get a better shared understanding of your problem.
STANDARD CBT TREATEMENT SESSION
£80
The first session usually involves an assessment of current problems.
Therapy sessions are recommended as weekly unless other factors like work commitments or holidays are apparent. Each session lasts one hour.
Options
Face-to-face therapy
Skype
Telephone
STANDARD EMDR TREATMENT SESSION (also AI-EMDR)
£80
These sessions initially include a full assessment of current symptoms and problem history.
All options for therapy will be explored at the initial session. Sometimes EMDR can be combined with CBT or vice versa for comprehensive treatment depending on your therapy needs. All this will be discussed clearly.
PAYMENT
Terms
Payments are made usually in advance or can be made in session if negotiated. 48 hours notice is required for cancellations or session will be charged. This is because time and careful preperation is undertaken before each session: Your problem is important to us.
The amount of sessions required will be agreed by both parties. Considerable discounts will be made for longer-term therapy requirements. These will be discussed as necessary and options explored.
Going through therapy with Specialist Therapies (Aberdeen) is an investment in your future. Think of how much you may have spent on holiday's that don't make you feel any more relaxed or material things that depreciate or you disregard. It's your future, and it can be better, easier, or more tolerable.
A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH
CBT
Recovery Based on Research Evidence
Stuck and struggling to achieve your goals in life?
CBT can help you gain a more positive view of your future. Often our way ahead seems blocked by feelings of low mood and anxiety. The good news is that the journey to recovery may be only a phone call or email away. CBT and EMDR therapies are highly researched. Overwhelming evidence suggests they are effective in treating mental health disorders. A few sessions can help you understand your problem(s). This means it becomes easier to make choices as knowledge can mean empowerment. Many people with Anxiety and depression feel they are powerless and what ever they do is hopeless. This is not true. With the right kind of partnership in therapy you can get back on track and begin to fulfil your potential again. You can use research proven tactics to improve your situation now, and into the future.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a trauma therapy that has proven very successful in treating all kinds of Psychological problems. In recent years there has been an increasing amount of research and development that has further enhanced this approach. In all the years of working as a therapist, EMDR has presented as an extremely powerful tool both as a stand-alone treatment and unblocking issues that have not been addressed before. If we consider trauma events as big 'T" and little 't' -the 'T' being acts of violence, aggression or accidents and 't' being repeated negative events such as continued put-downs, dismissal or bullying. New research suggests that 't' traumas are just as, or more toxic and harmful as "T" trauma that is a one-off event. Often people can have had both. Work is undertaken either face-to-face or virtually using body taps, hand-held buzzers or eye movement facilitated by software or by hand. This bilateral movement stimulates processing and reprocessing in the brain of past memories that are stuck, and toxic, and have an influence on how we see and feel ourselves and the world around us.
Explanation clip EMDR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkfln-ZtWeY
Attachment Informed EMDR (AI-EMDR)
This is an advanced form of EMDR, sometimes referred to as 'Attachment Focussed'. This approach requires additional training as well as many years of practice and supervision to perform. This form of EMDR therapy is very useful to those who have experienced childhood trauma related to attachment. This can often be a major contributing factor to individuals who have problems regulating emotions, perhaps with spells of anger and rages, addictive or sexualised behaviours, as well as bouts of severe depression or all different forms of anxiety. This is a modified approach to therapy that uses advanced techniques to access childhood memories. It also can incorporate psychodynamic tools, as well as inter-generational healing.
UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS HAPPENING
& WHY
Embrace Life’s Challenges
At Specialist therapies we work with you to understand your problem as part of a partnership. You need the right kind of support to get through the problems you are facing. Anxiety and Depressive disorders can make people feel so isolated. We understand what it's like, we are here to help you get better and to stay well.
HOW LONG ARE THE SESSIONS
&
HOW MANY SESSIONS?
Get the Most out of Life
CBT sessions last 60 minutes. EMDR sessions can sometimes last a little longer. How many sessions you require can depend on how complex your problem is and sometimes how long it has been around (but not always). Most people only require a few sessions to notice improvement. We will always agree on the amount of sessions we should try. We never leave this open ended like some other therapists or therapy services do. Simply because we don't think this is right. We believe in you taking control of your problem and we want to help you do that quickly.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
Recovery is Important
The usual cost per session is £80. If longer-term work is required then it will cost less per session. Usually most people require just a few sessions. We understand that cost is important. That is why we ensure the quality of therapy is of the highest possible standard. You will be at the centre of therapy. It's your recovery, it's important. You are important. In comparative terms, your mental health recovery could cost as little as a long weekend break.
You will have to pay in advance for sessions. 48 hours notice is required to cancel appointments
CBT QUALITY
Make Sure You Get the Right Therapy or Therapist.
There are plenty of therapists, counsellors or Psychologists out there who will tell you they can do CBT. All may not be as it seems. The British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists have been around for many years. To be an accredited CBT Therapist registered with this recognised organisation, you have to be highly qualified and have been through a rigorous and intensive training programme, and have gained a considerable amount of experience with many disorders. It does matter, so even if you have experience of therapy somewhere else, your therapist may have had great qualities, but for CBT, unless they have been accredited with the BABCP you cannot be assured of the highest standards.
Whatever you’re struggling with, We will work together. You deserve the chance to move on with your life.
Contact us to find out more.
THE SPECIALIST THERAPIES STORY
Specialist Therapies (Aberdeen) was started by Psychological Therapist Kenny McLeod to promote recovery methods to individuals who were trapped in unsettling mental health situations of all kinds.
His introduction to recovery therapies came over 15 years ago within the NHS helping people recover from life-threatening addictions. Following this, years were spent developing skills working with Children and Young People, as well as extensive work for years with Adults with high intensity CBT approaches for depression, anxiety disorders and complex trauma.
The experience gained has been tried and tested.
Qualifications include a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (High Intensity) from Teesside University as well as Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy from the University of Dundee. As well as training in Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR Europe).
Specialist Therapies believe you know more about your problems than anybody else. Specialist Therapies also believe that you should be empowered to have a shared understanding of your problem, and you should be allowed to have the confidence to make the changes that can make a difference to your life. We believe trust and understanding is the key to this, and we know that this sadly isn't the case with some other therapy approaches both state and private.
You know more about living with your problem than anybody else, we say let's begin with that.
If you have any questions about Specialist Therapies' methods, or would like to schedule an appointment, please get in touch today. We do not share your details or the nature of your enquiry with anyone.
