Therapies
Therapy sessions are typically 50 minutes in duration. After a number of sessions (typically six), your course of therapy and how it is working for you will be reviewed. The total number of sessions required is often dependent on the nature and severity of your difficulties. However, a minimum of 6 sessions should be expected.
Therapy sessions typically take place weekly or fortnightly. There is no evidence that therapy which takes place less frequently, is effective.
The main treatments offered at TAE Psychology are listed below. These are not comprehensively outlined. However, links to relevant information sources are provided. When enquiring about support, please do not hesitate to ask Dr Eneberi any questions about the different approaches that you may have.
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The therapeutic modality used in individual therapy is dependent on the evidence based, the allocated clinician's expertises, the clinician's understanding of your difficulties and any preferences you may have.
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Clinicians at TAE Psychology typically work in an integrative way, which means that they draw on different therapeutic approaches if they feel it would be beneficial to you. However, all treatments offered feature a CBT component.
​CBT is a structured talking therapy that focuses on the relationship between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. During sessions, you are supported to identify negative patterns and collaborative work is undertaken to support you to change how you think and behave. CBT is a veery proactive therapy, so your allocated clinician might give you things to do or think about between therapy sessions. CBT is one of the NICE recommended treatments for depression, anxiety disorders and post traumatic stress disorder. However, it is also used to treat other clinical presentations. ​
Other therapeutic approaches utilised at TAE Psychology include Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT; an approach used to promote emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness), Schema Therapy (which consider's your early life experiences and the way that your met and unmet needs from childhood have contributed to the way you think, feel and behave) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (which promotes psychological flexibility and involves committed action in which you are supported to life your life in line with your inherent values).
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Systemic Psychotherapy, also known as Family Therapy, is a psychotherapy used to help people in close, intimate relationships understand each other, communicate and support each other better. Whether systemic psychotherapy is offered to a couple, a family, carers or a professional group, during family therapy, you will be supported to express difficult thoughts/feelings and be helped to make changes to your relationship(s).
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Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is an attachment-focused psychotherapy developed by Dr Dan Hughes, used to treat children, young people and adults exposed to repeated or prolonged interpersonal trauma during childhood. DDP aims to strengthen attachment relationships and to support trauma resolution. More information about this approach can be found at https://ddpnetwork.org/
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Theraplay © is an attachment-focused, play-based, dyadic intervention used to support a child's relationship with caregiving adults. Theraplay is often used with children and parents where the child has been identified to have attachment difficulties. However, it can also be used in other contexts to promote positive relationships and interactions between a parent and child. Information about theraplay can be found at https://www.theraplay.org.uk/
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Therapeutic Life Story work (TLSW) represents a therapeutic intervention offered to help individuals understand and make sense of their life story. This approach is used with people who have had traumatic experiences, which they are struggling to integrate and move on from. The intervention is designed to support an individual to tolerate and subsequently recover from their experiences.
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Video Feedback Approaches. Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) and Video-Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) are video feedback approaches used to strengthen the parent-child relationship. Both approaches involve recording parent-child interactions, followed by a review process designed to improve positive interactions between a parent and their child. An informative video about VIG can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRVaL_ZlxHs
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Couple's Therapy is offered at TAE Psychology by Systemic Psychotherapists. In couples therapy, a couple are supported by their therapist to address any difficulties in their relationship and to work towards improvement. Within sessions, the couple are supported to communicate their thoughts/feelings openly and are introduced to new ways of relating or strategies designed to improve their bond.
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Sometimes, couples therapy is offered as a standalone intervention. However, it is sometimes recommended ahead of family therapy when complex dynamics are at play within a family.
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NVR is a therapeutic approach used to help parents/caregivers manage aggressive, destructive or defiant behaviour in children/young people. It is also used to support the parents of children who are at risk of exploitation.
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The approach focuses on the use of parenting strategies that are neither punitive or violent, when responding to behaviours that challenge.
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Additional information about this approach can be found here https://www.partnershipprojectsuk.com/non-violent-resistance-nvr/introduction-to-nvr/
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Clinicians at TAE are able to offer you parenting support, based on their extensive knowledge of Child Development and experience delivering different parenting interventions, with different theoretical underpinnings.
In our experience, it can be challenging for parents to discern which information to apply, given the extensive information available from various sources about parenting dos and don'ts. As all of the clinicians at TAE Psychology have knowledge about normative Child Development and have experience working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and other Specialist Child Services, they can help you to identify and apply parenting strategies that are likely to be most helpful with your child(ren).