We provide a range of evidence-based therapies at Blossom Consulting and tailor our treatment approach to best suit each individual’s needs. All Psychologists at Blossom Consulting are highly qualified and experienced to use several different psychological therapies to provide the best possible outcome for our clients. Many of our Psychologists are specialty trained in multiple areas of psychology and may use more than one type of therapy for treating clients. This adds to the quality of assessment and treatment provided and ensures the best possible outcomes. Please read below for a brief description of the most common therapeutic approaches used by Psychologists.
Types of Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a frequently used methodology at Blossom Consulting. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the relationship between cognitions (thoughts), behaviours and feelings (emotions & bodily sensations). Negative patterns of thinking about oneself and the world are challenged during psychotherapy to alter unwanted patterns of behaviour and treat emotional conditions and disorders. Our psychologist will typically help you identify unhelpful thinking styles or actions that are contributing to your distress and assist you to practice alternatives identified. Importantly, you will gain the tools and insight necessary to make lasting change. Variants of CBT include Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).
Acceptance & Commitment
Therapy (Mindfullness)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is the scientific application of mindfulness principles in psychological therapy. ACT recognises that psychological distress is caused by attempts to control unwanted or unpleasant experiences and living against one’s core personal values. Consequently, the goal is acceptance of the full range of emotions as part of human experience (mindfulness) and commitment to living a life rich in meaning in accord with one’s personal values.
Schema Therapy
Our early experiences shape our beliefs about our self, our world, and others into a schema; an organised way of understanding the world. Unpleasant or hurtful experiences when we are younger can lead to the development of maladaptive schemas, and unhelpful coping styles to manage the resulting distress. In schema therapy, we explore how maladaptive schemas may have developed from early experiences and identify those coping styles and how they may be articulating themselves currently and impacting your life in negative and unwanted ways. Your psychologist will help you to identify any maladaptive schemas and how they are affecting you emotionally, behaviourally or within your relationships.
Family Systems Therapy
Family systems therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps individuals resolve their problems in the context of their family unit. An important premises of this therapy is that what happens to one member of a family happens to everyone in the family unit and that changes in one person will lead to changes in the group overall. Each family member works individually and together to better understand their group dynamic and how their individual actions affect each other and the family unit. Together, the family works to resolve conflict and help the individual/s in distress while relieving the strain on the family system. Family systems therapy is based on the knowledge that the personalities, emotions, and behaviours of individuals are significantly influenced by birth order, role within the family of origin and the coping mechanisms individuals develop for dealing with emotional and family difficulties. This form of therapy has been shown to be effective with families, couples, and individuals and can used to treat many mental and behavioural health concerns.