Groups & Programmes

Psychotherapy Group – Weekly

Group psychotherapy is a great way to understand how others see you and how you get on with other people. It can help you to untie your emotional knots and see things from a new perspective. Group members learn they’re not alone in the world with their problems, that there are many others who have similar experiences and feelings.

Group therapy is supportive and safe. The therapist puts in place boundaries, such as confidentiality and time limits, which are agreed by the whole group. As well as providing stability, safe boundaries and a non-judgmental stance, the therapist comments on the group process and enables members to deal with feelings and issues raised.

The group can be a powerful source of strength and support, especially in times of difficulty or crisis. Over a period of time feedback to and from others can be a catalyst for understanding and change. Group therapy provides a space for reflection - we can notice and change unhelpful patterns that have developed over the years and which sometimes make life hard to cope with.

We believe that in group therapy traumatic events we have experienced in the past, but were too young, inexperienced or otherwise unable to deal with at the time, can be made sense of and understood emotionally. The group can present a ‘here and now’ opportunity to ‘repair’ past emotional injuries by learning to interact with others in progressively more healthy ways. As we gain confidence within the confidential setting of the therapy group, so our daily lives begin to become fuller and more enriched. We begin to feel more at home with ourselves and can take our rightful place in the world.

Anger Management Programme – 2 days

Our inability to manage anger in a healthy way causes it to spread, often hurting those we love. Unmanaged anger has effects on us including depression, anxiety, stress, breakdown of important relationships, loss of employment, road rage, lack of self-esteem, feelings of shame, etc.

The programme supports people to gain insight into the impact of their early influences whilst discovering new ways of healthy expression leading to improved emotional communication. Each session begins with a period of group therapy focusing initially on the immediate pressures in the participants’ lives and moving as appropriate to the roots of their anger. The group work is followed by a teaching session to deliver knowledge specifically designed to help participants resolve and manage their anger.

Stress Management Programme – 2 days

In our every day lives, much of our stress is subtle and occurs without obvious threat to survival. Most comes from things like work overload, conflicting priorities, inconsistent values, over-challenging deadlines, conflict with co-workers, unpleasant environments, relationship problems, financial difficulties and so on. Not only do these reduce our performance as we divert mental effort into handling them, they can also cause a great deal of unhappiness and in some cases lead to depression or in very serious cases psychosis.

In general we believe psychological integration between networks of affect and cognition are central to managing stress. In other words understanding our intrapsychic (internal) process in relation to external stressors is the key to prevention and recovery of stress related problems.

We assume that emotions give us the benefit of a speedy, and more-often-than-not effective response to simple situations, at the cost of a sophisticated response to more complex ones. As such, emotions are a useful early warning signal that something may be wrong. “‘Emotional Analysis” is an approach we use to start to understand and decode our emotional and cognitive processes. This programme supports people to understand the context of our thoughts, feelings and behaviour it allows us to challenge our underlying belief system, which in turn supports cognitive restructuring



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