Psychological and Counselling Services at samedaydoctorTM
Counselling services we offer at samedaydoctor
We offer a wide range of counselling solutions for conditions like anxiety, stress, drug and alcohol dependency, depression, eating disorders and relationship Issues.
At samedaydoctor we offer psychotherapy treatment via a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic counselling. Our counselling services are suitable for both adolescents and adults, and we offer both short and long term psychotherapy treatment. If appropriate, telephone counselling can be arranged.
Our psychotherapists and counsellors at samedaydoctorTM are MBACP accredited, ensuring adherence to a strict ethical framework, and total client confidentiality.
How Counselling and Psychotherapy work
All treatment begins with a detailed, no obligation 50 minute meeting, during which time we discuss the issues that led to you seeking our counselling services in the first place. After this, our counsellor will tell you how psychodynamic counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy work, and decide how best to continue. If it is felt a different discipline would be more beneficial, they will pass you on to one of their colleagues.
If you decide to continue, they look at areas in your life that have allowed problems to develop. Rather than give advice, they offer feedback on your problems, identifying thinking patterns that have negatively influenced your emotions, or caused anxiety and stress in your life. They then use psychotherapy techniques to develop skills that will enable you combat the problems affecting you.
What is cognitive behavioural therapy?
CBT is a form of counselling that works with your conscious processes, focusing on patterns of thought and behaviour happening in the present. It identifies faulty thinking styles that have a negative effect on your mood and behaviour, and helps you develop new ways of thinking which negate these.
Cognitive behavioural therapy combats the symptoms of anxiety and depression without the need to resort to drugs. It is particularly useful for phobias, exam or work stress, and lack of assertiveness and panic attacks.
What is psychodynamic counselling?
This form of psychotherapy looks at unconscious processes, working on the idea that things which happened in the past affect our lives in the present.
Psychodynamic counselling is particularly helpful for clients with long term problems, who need to be relieved of underlying issues affecting their lives today. Childhood abuse, cultural differences, divorce, disability and social changes are all things which can affect long term mental health.
PD counselling helps with conditions like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, eating disorders, lack of assertiveness, anger management and even effects of redundancy or retirement.
Why choose samedaydoctor counselling services?
Our counselling services provide a safe and private environment, where clients can talk in complete confidence.
The confidential, calming atmosphere of a samedaydoctor clinic is an ideal environment for therapy sessions to take place, enabling patients to “open up” on a whole range of issues.
Our qualified and experienced counsellors use psychodynamic counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy in a skilled and responsible way. Our aim is to enable clients to become self-aware, confident, independent and better able to cope in the future.