Treatments
The First Step
Our first session is an assessment appointment, in which we have time to discuss the main problem and establish what we need to work on. You also have a chance to meet me as a therapist and decide if my therapeutic approach works for you. After the assessment you can choose if you would like to continue sessions and start therapy. Together we set goals for treatment and agree on the number of sessions and the length of therapy. It all depends on your individual needs and type of issues you are bringing.
Counselling is a type of psychological help that could involve psycho-education, learning new ideas and coping strategies.
It provides support in emotionally difficult situations and allows you to reflect on what is happening in your life. Counselling lasts for as long as you feel it is helping you. Its aim is to identify the problem and look for ways of solving it.
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Psychotherapy work usually involves going deeper into your feelings. During psychotherapy sessions you notice changes in the way you look at things, your perspective changes as well as your self-consciousness.
You have a chance understand why your difficulties happened in the first place but also learn coping strategies and ways of solving your problems. You start seeing things very differently. It helps you gain a better understanding of your inner world, which results in changes of your functioning.
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If you have any questions, there is more information available on my FAQ page or feel free to contact me.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT
CBT is a short-term psychotherapy, suitable for work on a wide range of psychological problems e.g. depression, anxiety, anger, self-esteem.
This therapy focuses on the way you think, behave and communicate in the "here and now". It is based on a model which emphasises the relationship between thoughts, behaviour and emotions as well as your physical sensations.
CBT focuses on work on negative thoughts and beliefs you have about yourself, other people and the world. It teaches you ways of changing the way you think and behave, and helps to shift unhelpful beliefs. CBT is recommended for many different problems, including:
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Depression (Low Mood)
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder (Worry)
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Panic Disorder ( and Panic Attacks)
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Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder
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Social Anxiety
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Phobias and Specific Fears
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Health Anxiety and Death Anxiety
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PTSD
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Lack of Work - Life Balance
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Relationships
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Stress Management
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You can read more about CBT on the CBT Association website.
EMDR is a very effective treatment for treating trauma and alleviating trauma symptoms. It utilises the natural process of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) that occurs during our sleep. EMDR works on unprocessed memories and feelings stored in a brain that remain “frozen” in time and might seem recent and fresh.
As a result of repeated sets of eye movements (similar to REM), the memories change and lose their intensity. EMDR helps create new connections in your brain that enable the processing of the traumatic event. Changes in thoughts, images and feelings allow the trauma memory become a natural memory.
EMDR works really well with traumatic events such as:​
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Road Traffic Accidents (RTA)
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Childhood Trauma (Any type)
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Abuse and Neglect
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Birth Trauma
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Bullying, Harassment, Discrimination
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Personal Assaults (e.g. Sexual Assault, Mugging, Robbery)
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Witnessing Violence, Death or Injury
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Terrorist Attacks
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Natural Disasters
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Medical Trauma, Illness and Injury
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Transgenerational Trauma
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Spiritual Injury, etc.
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You can read more about the benefits of EMDR therapy on the EMDR Association website.
Services for Other Therapists
I also offer clinical supervision to other therapists, mainly those who use CBT modality in their practice. I believe supervision is a very important and integral part of any therapy practice. Supervision provides space to reflect and explore own therapeutic work. It helps the therapist see things in a different light and ensures they are providing the best quality practice to their clients so they are achieving their goals. In order to grow as a psychotherapist, I receive supervision from other experienced psychotherapists.
Currently, I also supervise students at University of Exeter, who train in delivering High Intensity CBT for the NHS Talking Therapies, see here.
Testimonials
What my clients say about working with me:
Working with Renata has truly changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. From our very first session, she made me feel at ease, safe and understood.
Renata's knowledge, insight, kindness and patience helped me get to the root of my problems, and she helped to guide me from a state of extreme anxiety to a confident and self-assured individual that I can barely even recognise.
Renata's use of EMDR in particular has been truly life changing for me, and in just ten EMDR sessions I feel like a completely new person.
I can't speak of Renata's abilities highly enough, and I would recommend her for anyone struggling to deal with trauma no matter how big or small.
My life has changed since Renata helped me and I will be forever grateful, I have the strength to face every situation these days with confidence and respect and pride.
Renata seriously has changed my life. I'd been living with PTSD causing panic and anxiety attacks for around 2 years and I didn't know where else to go. A friend of mine told me about EMDR therapy.
I did some research and found Renata, who is warm, friendly and so knowledgeable.
I was very apprehensive before going, I believed I had already exhausted all avenues, and was sure I was going to live in a world of panic, and fear, of a catastrophe happening at any time forever.
I am finally myself again, I can’t believe I’m saying it but I am back to being me. I had 9 sessions in total but everyone is different. If anyone is suffering from anxiety or panic attacks you don't need to live like this anymore. This form of psychotherapy with Renata will literally change your life.
I will forever be thankful to Renata, for helping me see out 2 of the hardest years of my life, where I could not see the light at the end of the tunnel.
You can’t change what you did or what was done to you, but you can choose to rebuild the connections in your mind and change the way that experience ‘sits’ in your life story. Renata helped me to reframe my trauma, and by using EMDR, we were able to reprocess my feelings about my experience and how I viewed myself as a consequence.
What was really powerful was reprocessing to reframe the experience, which let me see how things can be quite different in my life in the present, and also how I can have more positive relationships with myself and others going forwards.
I am very grateful to Renata and really appreciated her supportive approach which really helped me feel comfortable through all of our sessions. Thank you, Renata