Counselling and Psychotherapies and Education
The Elizabeth Welch Therapy Practice adheres to the NICE guidelines for the provision of both Cognitive Behaviour and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Psychotherapies for a range of conditions. "Evidence shows that trauma focused psychological treatments (trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) are effective..." (NICE 2008). The practice welcomes formal and legal instruction for psychotherapies and also provides critical incident support, stress management, trauma counselling, supervision, counsellor training and group therapy.CBT: The Elizabeth Welch practice focuses more on how a person's problems are being maintained and offers practical advice and tools for overcoming common emotional problems. Epictetus c.93AD asserted that "People are not disturbed by things but by the views they take of them." Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) integrates thought with behaviour. The fundamental principle of CBT is that what people think affects how they feel emotionally and physically and also alters what they do.EMDR is a non hypnotic form of psychotherapy that was developed to resolve symptoms resulting from disturbing and unresolved life experiences. Working directly with memory networks EMDR enhances the information processing mode that we all have but can't access.Integrative: My early counselling career was spent in general counselling practice and this generalist background, training, knowledge and experience allows me to work within an integrative framework incorporating elements of other theoretical approaches.