CBT EMDR & Psychotherapy
Anna Minihane
Consultant Psychotherapist
E:anna.minihane@outlook.com
phone: 07867 640261
BABCP Registered Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist,
Cognitive Behavioural Coach,
EMDR Therapist,
Integrative Psychotherapist,
Clinical Supervisor
Anna Minihane. BA (hons.)
PGDip, MSc.
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anxiety
stress
worry/GAD
social phobia
health anxiety
workplace issues
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trauma & PTSD
miscarriage
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CBT
CBT is a way of thinking about about yourself, the world and other people. It can help you to change how you think ('Cognitive') and what you do ('Behaviour'). These changes can help you to feel and function better. It focuses more on the 'here and now' problems and difficulties. As a therapy it focuses more on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the present, it looks for ways to improve your state of mind now. However some present day problems have a long history and advanced CBT does also look at how past issues may be affecting you today.
What Problems can CBT help with?
CBT has been shown to help with many different types of problems. These include: anxiety, depression, panic, phobias (including agoraphobia and social phobia), stress, bulimia, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder. CBT may also help if you have difficulties with anger, a low opinion of yourself or physical health problems, like pain or fatigue.
I am a registered provider with the following health Insurance companies:
Aviva Health
AXA PPP
BUPA
WPA
Cigna Healthcare
Simply Health
Vitality Health
Types of Therapy
EMDR Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing
What is EMDR?
The mind can often heal itself naturally, in the same way as the body does. Much of this natural coping mechanism occurs during sleep, particularly during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. EMDR Uses this natural process in order to successfully treat Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a wide range of problems.
However, when something out of the ordinary occurs and you are traumatised by an overwhelming event (e.g. a car accident) or by being repeatedly subjected to distress (e.g. childhood neglect), your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining frozen in your brain or being "unprocessed". It is believed that EMDR helps to process trauma or disturbing experiences by creating the connections between your brain’s memory networks, enabling your brain to process the traumatic memory in a very natural way.
What is an EMDR session like?
After a thorough assessment, you will be asked specific questions about a particular disturbing memory. Using sets of taps (tapping) eye movements, or beeps via headphones or hand held buzzers are used to facilitate bilateral stimulation. After each set you will then be asked to report back on the experiences you have had during each of the sets. Experiences during a session may include changes in thoughts, images and feelings.
Clients usually report back feeling a reduction in symptoms and disturbing imagery, improvement in mood and concentration