Rosebery Healthcare, Rosebery, NSW, 2018
Myhealth Rockdale, Rockdale, NSW, 2216
Cognitive
In cognitive therapy, individuals can overcome the harmful emotional effects of the past. By addressing changes to their thinking and behaviour, they can prevail over depression, anxiety, stress disorders and grief caused by life circumstances. They can overcome the painful emotional legacy of abuse. They can reject the damage of cruelty, malice, violence, bullying, ridicule, abandonment and neglect inflicted upon them by others. They can free themselves of obsessive compulsions like incessant hand-washing or counting. They can overcome phobias such as extreme fear of germs. They can eliminate the drives to seek comfort in alcohol or drugs. They can rebuild damaged self-value and restore confidence. They can reject the emotional isolation the past imposed on them and become the whole person they choose to be.
Trauma
Traumatic events create mental havoc for affected individuals. Untreated, the resulting damage tends to hang around long-term and can make people doubt their own sanity or even feel suicidal. Trauma can arise from experiences as an adult or child. Trauma includes assault, abuse, accidents, being a victim of violent crime, having homes invaded, police actions, torture, refugee experience, pregnancy termination, miscarriage or stillbirth, loss of financial security, kidnapping, medical procedures, loss of a loved one in violent or unexpected circumstances, and workplace bullying by co-workers and managers. Trauma can also include witnessing or hearing about violent experiences others have suffered, or being present in a warzone or other violent conflict. Overcoming the effects of trauma frees affected individuals to restore peace to their emotional life.
Coping
Long-term stressors can lead to emotional exhaustion where individuals perceive themselves as no longer able to function in their everyday lives. Stressors of this kind may include caring for a loved one with psychological and/or physical disorders in the self or a loved one, despondency over infertility, family dysfunction, long-term unemployment, forced change of career, missing persons, loss of a loved one through unlawful killing, or ongoing court matters. Helping the person focus on their ability to cope and to feel more in control assists with maintaining a more positive ongoing mental state.
Challenging
Confronting negative belief systems and damaged self-esteem to bring awareness of self-destructive patterns of thinking and behaviour, with the goal of introducing more positive emotional patterns.
Person-centred Therapy
Characterized by unconditional personal regard, creating a psychologically safe and peaceful place for individuals to engage in honest expression of their emotional state.
Jungian Therapy
Includes dream analysis and use of dream imagery in self-understanding, use of imagery in reducing anxiety, cathartic expression to release repressed feelings.
Desensitization
Treating obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder by graduated exposure to the fear stimulus in a series of guided steps.
Relaxation
Giving instruction for the person to practise total relaxation, using calming imagery, to induce rest and sleep.
Art Therapy
Used mainly with children to allow the child a safe way to express feelings and fears through creative arts and then discussing how the child feels about what is represented; also used with adults to express early life trauma.
Journaling
Writing and illustrating responses to events causing psychological distress, allowing the person to express feelings in a safe environment.
Holistic Psychotherapy
Understanding one's place as a part of a social whole, recognizing one's place in life and family, moving towards resolution of conflict and the selection of goals.
Eclectic therapy
A combination of therapies is often best for achieving the right approach for individuals. All therapies have elements to offer and a balance of the most appropriate elements for individuals can achieve the best result. Like facets of a gem, it is the combination that makes up the final result.