When you’re out of balance, you know. It’s uncomfortable to be still, you lose trust in your instincts, you just want to be able to relax, to enjoy life, to be able to let it go. But, you just can’t. Your world gets smaller and smaller, and your mind gets stuck in a loop that gets bigger and bigger. And the longer it goes on, the harder it is to see yourself and the world around you in any other way.
Psychological therapy is about re-establishing balance, breaking the loops and making changes. It’s hard work. It can be painful work. But, it is often life-changing work. It starts with getting the right therapist for you.
Based in Edinburgh, with both face to face and online appointments, I work with those impacted by trauma, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, low mood, low self-esteem and for those who are looking to make changes in their life, but aren’t sure where to start.
Psychological Therapy can help you to:
- Understand what is affecting you and why
- Understand the biology and psychology of what you’re experiencing
- Build on ways of managing strong emotions and critical thinking
- Work through traumatic memories, difficult experiences, thoughts and symptoms with evidenced-based approaches
- Challenge yourself to make the changes in life you want to see
Why traumatic experiences affect us?
Our brains work differently under high levels of threat and stress. Focusing all our energy on surviving and getting through traumatic experiences comes at the cost of the brain being able to process the event like it would with everyday events. A lot of the time, the brain will naturally go back and process this experience in the following days and weeks. We will make sense of this event in the grand scheme of our life, turning it into a memory, and then we can move forward in life with the sense that what happened is now over.
Sometimes this doesn’t happen, and this is what causes symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, PTSD is not the only outcome of trauma; for many people low mood, OCD, generalised anxiety, addictions and other difficulties can also be traced back to earlier trauma.
The most effective way to treat trauma-related difficulties is with trauma-focused psychological therapy. Still Lines offer several evidence-based treatments tailored to the person, drawing on a range of therapies such as:
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Therapy (TF-CT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
Schema Therapy
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
If you would like to discuss further, please contact the service and we will be in touch. An initial telephone consultation is free of charge.
Fees
Initial telephone consultation (up to 20 minutes)- free
A brief initial phone call will let us talk about what it is you are hoping for.
Individual sessions (50 minutes)- £130
With an assessment appointment, I will work with you to understand your current difficulties and make a plan for therapy. Following this, you will then have weekly or fortnightly appointments where we work towards the agreed goal or outcome. Sometimes this can be a pre-agreed number of sessions, whilst others prefer a more open-ended approach.
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