Women First Healthcare offer a range of psychological therapies to meet a wide variety of needs. Psychological therapies are structured, goal focused interventions which allow an individual to build a better understanding of why their difficulties came about, and then take steps towards bringing about meaningful change in their lives.
At Women First Healthcare, our psychological therapy service is designed to help women build resilience, improve wellbeing, and make meaningful changes in their lives. We support a wide range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, and eating disorders, offering personalised treatment delivered by experienced clinicians. Every therapy plan is tailored to your needs, combining evidence-based approaches with compassionate, collaborative care. We offer a range of evidence based psychological therapies for a range of difficulties including:
| Anxiety, panic disorder, health anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and phobias | |
| Low mood, depression, low self esteem and self criticism | |
| The effects of trauma, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD | |
| Relationship difficulties and sexual dysfunction | |
| Eating disorders and difficulties related to body image and weight | |
| Substance use disorders | |
| Stress, Workplace stress |
Women First Healthcare offer a number of therapies to address these issues, including: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Compassion Focussed Therapy (CFT) and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). You can read more about our psychological therapy appoaches below.
We strongly believe that decisions about how to proceed in therapy should be made in collaboration between therapist and client, and so we will always be happy to discuss any therapeutic approaches that you may be interested in.
Women First Healthcare offer a number of therapies to address the above issues which you can view in more detail below.
Is a talking therapy that teaches you coping skills, focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes can affect your feelings and actions, helping you manage your difficulties by changing the way that you think or behave.
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ACT can help treat many mental and physical health conditions, helping you to learn to stop avoiding, denying or struggling with your inner emotions and, instead accept that deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent you from moving forward in your life.
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A mental health treatment technique, which involves moving your eyes in a specific way while you process traumatic memories. The goal of EMDR is to help you heal from trauma or other distressing life experience.
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CFT therapy aims to help reduce distress and psychological difficulties, focusing upon the emotion behind your thoughts, promoting mental and emotional healing by encouraging those in treatment to be compassionate towards themselves and others.
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IFS therapy is a gentle approach that helps you to understand the different parts of yourself – like your inner critic, protector or wounded younger self. Working with our psychology team you will learn to connect these parts in a caring way, leading to deeper healing and personal growth.
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Please note: All appointments are conducted online. If you have any questions about this, feel free to get in touch.
