Transformation Psychology Center
Therapies
Are you truly ready to let go of the limitations of your past and step into a new future?
Therapies
Corinne uses therapies that are empirically proven to be effective.
She is enthusiastic about working with the emotion-focused therapies Schema Therapy (ST) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR). Both access the part of the brain that holds the emotions and beliefs that limit us, and override these with new, more positive emotions and a more accurate perspective. ST and EMDR get to the root of the wound and clear it out
The objective of ST is to bring about emotional, cognitive and behavioural change through weakening unhelpful schemas (beliefs about ourselves, the world, and our relation to others; emotions and somatic sensations) and our limiting patterns of coping, whilst strengthening the healthy, compassionate, rational part of us. In doing so, self-awareness and self-compassion is increased and life-long patterns of responding (emotionally and behaviourally) to situations and interactions we find distressing are transformed.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy
EMDR is uses bilateral stimulation to initiate a natural neurological process that allows distressing traumatic experiences from the past to stay in the past: whilst they are remembered, there is no longer distress attached to these and they no longer impact our life in an adverse way. Like ST, it promotes self-insight and overrides the negative impact of traumatic events with a more positive and accurate self-perception, perception of the world in general, and perception of our relationship with others. In addition, more positive emotions replace the past distressing ones.
Pease note that EMDR is often not appropriate as the first line of treatment, with the potential to be detrimental. Corinne will use her clinical judgement to discern this.
CBT: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
CBT is an effective therapy used to manage and alleviate acute difficulties such as depression and anxiety disorders, however it does not get the root of the difficulties. Corinne uses CBT in order to provide valuable tools to manage difficulties and when required to bring people to more emotional stability and a greater level of day-to-day functioning so that they are then able to engage in ST or EMDR. When CBT is not required as starting point (i.e. as bridge into ST or EMDR), it is often interwoven with ST and EMDR.
With CBT we can logically know we are not a failure, yet still feel it. Through ST and EMDR we know on a holistic level that we are not.
During your initial appointments, Corinne will discuss what therapy is best suited for you and her reasoning for this; dependant on your treatment goals and history.
The objective of ST is to bring about emotional, cognitive and behavioural change through weakening unhelpful schemas (beliefs about ourselves, the world, and our relation to others; emotions and somatic sensations) and our limiting patterns of coping, whilst strengthening the healthy, compassionate, rational part of us. In doing so, self-awareness and self-compassion is increased and life-long patterns of responding (emotionally and behaviourally) to situations and interactions we find distressing are transformed.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy
EMDR is uses bilateral stimulation to initiate a natural neurological process that allows distressing traumatic experiences from the past to stay in the past: whilst they are remembered, there is no longer distress attached to these and they no longer impact our life in an adverse way. Like ST, it promotes self-insight and overrides the negative impact of traumatic events with a more positive and accurate self-perception, perception of the world in general, and perception of our relationship with others. In addition, more positive emotions replace the past distressing ones.
Pease note that EMDR is often not appropriate as the first line of treatment, with thepotential to be detrimental. Corinne will use her clinical judgement to discern this.
CBT: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
CBT is an effective therapy used to manage and alleviate acute difficulties such asdepression and anxiety disorders, however it does not get the root of the difficulties. Corinne uses CBT in order to provide valuable tools to manage difficulties and when required to bring people to more emotional stability and a greater level of day-to-day functioning so that they are then able to engage in ST or EMDR. When CBT is not required as starting point (i.e. as bridge into ST or EMDR), it is often interwoven with ST and EMDR.
With CBT we can logically know we are not a failure, yet still feel it. Through ST and EMDR we know on a holistic level that we are not.
During your initial appointments, Corinne will discuss what therapy is best suited for you and her reasoning for this; dependant on your treatment goals and history.