Our approach
Slow enough to listen, clear enough to change something
We use therapies with good evidence behind them, we explain them in plain words, and we check with you regularly that they’re working.
Three things we hold to
- 1
Listen before fixing
The first session is for understanding, not for advice. Most people have had plenty of advice already.
- 2
Say what we’re doing
You’ll always know which approach we’re using and why. No jargon, no mystery.
- 3
Measure, then decide
Every six sessions we look at what has changed, using short questionnaires and your own words, and decide together what’s next.
The approaches we use
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- For anxiety, panic and low mood. Noticing the loop between thoughts, feelings and what you do, and changing one part of it.
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Making room for difficult feelings while moving towards what matters to you.
- Emotionally focused therapy (EFT)
- For couples: slowing down the argument to find the need underneath it.
- Systemic family therapy
- When the difficulty lives between people, we see the people together.
- Slow breathing and mindfulness
- Practical skills for attention and calm, taught in groups and used inside therapy.
Confidentiality, supervision and reviews
Confidentiality. What you say stays in the room. The only exception is a serious risk to you or someone else, and we would always try to tell you first.
Supervision. Every therapist here talks through their work with an experienced supervisor every fortnight, anonymously. It keeps us honest and it keeps us learning.
Why we publish so few reviews. Most professional codes for psychologists restrict testimonials, for good reason: someone in therapy shouldn’t feel they owe us praise. We only share words from people who have finished, with their written consent, and we change the details.
Registration. The practice is a registered health centre and every psychologist is registered with the regional college. Rahul is a coach, not a psychologist: coaching and the breathing groups aren’t health services, and he hands over to the clinical team when someone needs therapy.