ACT is a modern, evidence-based approach that focuses on accepting what is out of your control while committing to actions that enrich your life. Rather than fighting difficult thoughts and feelings, we learn to relate to them differently – creating space for more self-compassion, clarity about your values, and the courage to live more aligned with who you truly are.

Practitioners: Melanie

The gold standard in psychotherapeutic approaches to treating anxiety, depression, and other everyday mental health concerns. This approach focuses on the relationship between thoughts, behaviours and emotions. Homework is a strong component of CBT and lots of focus will be put on dysfunctional thoughts (labelling, examining, and interrogating).

Practitioners: Ariel, Melanie

A form of therapy that combines talking with gentle creative approaches, including play, art, music, and imagination. Some creative arts therapies are rooted in Dramatherapy, using storytelling and metaphor, but sessions are kept simple and accessible and don’t rely on you being “creative.”

This approach can be especially helpful when things feel hard to put into words, offering different ways to explore thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Sessions are collaborative and client-led, and can be either conversational or include creative elements, depending on what feels most helpful for you.

Practitioners: Lauren

A type of therapy popularised by Irvin Yalom that focuses on our relationship to death and dying. We examine acceptance and barriers to acceptance, as well as courage in taking steps to enrich life and empower the self. This type of therapy is humanistic and direct. Sessions will focus on meaning-making, choice, freedom, isolation, and responsibility.

Practitioners: Ariel

The gold standard in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, and specific phobia. This is a type of CBT that heavily focuses on the behavior aspect. An exposure hierarchy is co-created that includes feared objects or situations from least fearful to most fearful. This type of therapy is extremely effective at lessening avoidance and getting relief from obsessions and compulsions. Learn more here.

Practitioners: Ariel

Rooted in present-moment awareness, mindfulness-based approaches help you develop a more grounded and compassionate relationship with yourself – noticing thoughts and emotions without judging them and meeting them with curiosity instead. Now among the well-researched approaches in modern psychology, with evidence for stress, depression and emotional regulation.

Practitioners: Melanie

The body holds what the mind sometimes cannot yet articulate, hence it is important for long-lasting growth to view yourself as a whole system. Sessions can incorporate breathwork, movement and body-based practices alongside talk therapy. Research is currently growing, with emerging studies exploring yoga and meditation as promising approaches for conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, burnout and depression.

Practitioners: Melanie