CBT is an evidence based therapy built on the principle of interconnectedness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It supports clients to alter negative thinking paterns and maladaptive ways of coping to improve their emotional wellbeing. It is typically a shorter term, structured, active, collaborative, and goals oriented therapy. It is very effective for depression and common anxiety problems such as phobias, generalised anxiety, panic disorder, health anxiety, and other difficulties.

Schema therapy is an integrative evidence based psychological approach for working with longstanding and complex mental health problems arising from difficult childhood experiences. It integrates theory and techniques from other therapeutic approaches, including person-centred, emotion-focused, object relations, gestalt, psychodrama, and psychodynamic modalities.

Schema therapy is a needs based model which highlights that every child has a set of emotional needs that need to be met in order for them to go on to develop as psychologically healthy adults. If these needs are not met, the child may develop maladaptive ways of relating to the self, others and the world. Schema therapy aims to support clients from an attuned and warm therapeutic stance offering a range of cognitive, relational and experiential interventions.

EMDR is a powerful psychological therapy that was developed by Dr Francine Shapiro, an American clinical psychologist, in the 1980s. Since then a wealth of research has been conducted demonstrating its benefits in treating psychological trauma arising from experiences as diverse as violent conflict, natural disaster, physical assault, road traffic and workplace accidents and childhood abuse. EMDR is increasingly proving effective across a range of other psychological problems.

EMDR is based upon a model known as Adaptive Information Processing (AIP), a natural tendency to move towards mental health. EMDR resolves trauma stored in nervous system by 'unblocking' the AIP through bilateral stimulation of the brain, which is similar to what spontaneously happens in our REM sleep.