What I can help with
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Health Anxiety
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic
- Trauma/PTSD
- Social Anxiety
- Specific Phobia
- Confidence
- Life Changes
- Self-esteem
- Trauma
- Substance abuse
- Stress
Therapies offered
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing
- Mindfulness Based Interventions
Approach
Gareth understands how the beliefs we hold about ourselves, the world and others, and the coping and safety strategies we have developed, can impact on our emotional experiences and keep us unintentionally stuck. He knows it can be frightening to try new ways of coping, but he is there to support his clients on this journey, to help them gain a sense of contentment and have the tools to cope with the ups and downs of life.
Experience
Gareth has many years of experience working with people from a wide range of different backgrounds who are struggling in their lives: from people from deprived neighbourhoods with crack cocaine addictions, to those working in high pressured jobs in the city with anxiety disorders. Gareth understands that whatever our background suffering is universal, life can be difficult and we are all coping the best way we can, or know how.
Gareth draws on his knowledge and experience gained from working in both substance misuse and in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) settings. As a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist he is proficient in working with depression and anxiety disorders, including generalised anxiety disorder; panic disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder; post-traumatic stress disorder; social anxiety; health anxiety and specific phobias.
Gareth has developed specialisms in third wave approaches, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). These approaches are transdiagnostic and are therefore appropriate for a variety of presenting issues. In each of these therapies we learn to change our relationship to our thoughts and feelings by creating more space for them, to acknowledge but hold them lightly, to be kinder to ourselves and spend less time in our heads and more time in our lives.
As a qualified Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist Gareth works with clients who have had traumatic experiences, either earlier in their lives, more recently, or both. Using EMDR Gareth helps clients to process these experiences, to heal and move forward.
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