Treatment pathways are tailored to each client's specific needs. Pathways utilise the LifeChanges approach, combining Hypnotherapy, NLP, and EFT plus selected concepts and tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy, Mindfulness, Person Centred Therapy and other therapies. This provides a rich source of therapeutic methods and ensures a great deal of flexibility and choice in determining an effective treatment strategy for each client to improve their mental health.

During your first session a personal history related to your conditions is taken and used to determine treatment outcomes and treatment pathways for your specific needs. During follow-up sessions your progress is reviewed and adjustments made to the pathway, as required.

An important part of the treatment strategy is to coach you to use the techniques on your own, effectively providing you with a toolbox for your mind.

The number of therapeutic methods is too large to describe but a few examples used in pathways include:

Changing your Physiology:
It is well established that you can instantaneously change how you feel and behave by changing your physiology. Adopting a powerful and excited physiology for example, will automatically create a corresponding change in your mind, thus creating a powerful and excited mental state. During a consultation you will receive coaching on ways to change your physiology to create powerful positive states. In conjunction with this, your current level of physical activity may be reviewed and a plan made to adjust it (within your capability), if required. Exercise helps to lower anxiety by reducing stress inducing hormones in the body.

Goal Setting
Setting specific goals and preparing an action plan is a great way to focus your mind and achieve success in pursuing mental health outcomes. Setting and achieving even small goals can boost confidence and improve your sense of worth and being in control. For example, a depressed person may not have the mental energy to clean the house. But by breaking this task down to smaller achievable tasks, done one step at a time, such as washing the breakfast dishes, becomes manageable. More importantly by achieving one small goal it provides a mental boost to acheieve others - success breeds success. If appropriate, clients will be encouraged to set goals.

Providing Coping Strategies
Numerous coping strategies are available involving mindfulness, anchoring and visualisation techniques for example, which have been well proven to reduce stress, worry and anxiety. The most appropriate coping strategies based on the client's specific needs will be provided and taught to them to use. Providing and teaching you to use coping strategies to deal with situations that trigger your negative states and behaviours, effectively providing you with your own personalised toolbox for the mind.

Dealing with Trauma
Trauma can be triggered by single events and multiple events, which can cause great anxiety, fear and phobias and prevent you from moving on. Some can be as simple as seeing a spider or as major as being subjected to regular physical or mental abuse, for example.
Depending on the nature of the triggering event(s) powerful visual dissociation technques may be used to reduce or even eliminate the intensity of the events, often referred to as the fast phobia removal technique. Other Timeline or age regression methods for example, may be used to identify the source of the problem and resolve the problem.

Tapping into your own Inner Strengths
Therapy can identify inner strengths and resources that you may have used in the past to successfully deal with problem situations and utilse them to deal with current problems.

Eliminating Limiting Decisions and Beliefs
How often have you said "I am not good enough" or "Nothing good ever happens to me", or "Stress runs in my family", or "I will never be able to...", and so on. These are examples of limiting decisions and beliefs and can contribute to lack of confidence, low self esteem, self-crticism, blame and guilt, all of which can lead to mental health issues. During therapy, any limiting beliefs and decsisions can be identified and replaced by more positive ones to improve mental states, For example, eliminating beliefs related to self-criticism, blame and guilt, can improve confidence and self-esteem. Ways to make changes include for example, belief changing techniques, or self-compassion, or timeline technuiqes.

Self Help
A variety of CDs, online courses, downloads and apps are currently being developed for those wishing to go along the route of self-help and self-study. The website will be updated when they are available to purchase.

Please note that for some treatments, including depression, your Medical Practitioner's approval may be required.