Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
A structured, present-focused approach that helps people see the links between thoughts, emotions and behaviour. In therapy, clients learn to notice unhelpful thoughts and habitual reactions, test them, and practise more realistic and useful ways of responding.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
A “third-wave” CBT approach that combines acceptance of the person as they are with work on needed change. It develops mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance and effective interpersonal skills.
Emotional Regulation Skills
The ability to notice and name emotions, understand what drives them, and choose a safe, constructive response. This is not about suppressing feelings, but about managing their intensity and the behaviour that follows.
Trauma-Focused Approach
Careful, staged work with the effects of psychological trauma, prioritising safety, stabilisation and a restored sense of control. After building resources and self-regulation skills, traumatic experience is gradually processed at a pace the person can tolerate, without retraumatisation.
ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis)
A research-informed approach to teaching and changing socially meaningful behaviour. The specialist analyses what precedes behaviour and what maintains it, then teaches needed skills in small steps, uses reinforcement and regularly tracks outcomes with data.