Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment, Lao Tzu.
Welcome to Annette’s psychology practice. Annette loves to empower others and enjoys working with Adolescents and Adults in working towards their goals. Annette draws upon a number of evidence based therapies in order to help people gain greater insight and self awareness in order to promote emotional and relational wellbeing.
THERAPY & COUNSELLING TECHNIQUES
Emotion Focused Counselling & Therapy
In an Emotionally Focused approach, working with feelings are the priority. Behaviours, thoughts, and feelings are intertwined. Emotionally Focused work aims to help an individual regain, discover and have their emotional experience. Exploring feelings and reactions to incidents and issues, clients are also discovering their patterns, e.g., their ways of operating, their thoughts and inner self talk about what is happening (Webster, 2009).
Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy is a system of psychotherapy that is well suited to clients with entrenched psychological disorders (e.g., chronic depression and anxiety, and/or characterological issues). This therapy aims to help clients strengthen their healthy Adult mode so that they can get in touch with their core needs and feelings. This model explores schemas from early childhood to the present with a particular emphasis on a client’s interpersonal relationships (Young, Klosko, Weishaar, 2003).
Focusing & Mindfulness Based Practices
Focusing is a particular process of attention that supports therapeutic change in body, mind and behaviour. Focusing is indicated when a client does not have a clear sense of what is troubling them. It is a body-oriented, mindfulness-based practice that enables clients to have a more accepting relationship to their own emotional states, resulting in a greater ability to self regulate in stressful situations. It is a way of working experientially by helping clients get felt senses.
A felt sense is a fresh, bodily felt sense of a situation that contains its own forward momentum for change. When clients get felt senses and stay with them, therapy can often move quickly and go deeper. As clients are able to become aware of and label their experiences they are in a better position to identify their needs and wants and to understand how events and other people are impacting them (Cornell, 2013: Watson, Goldman, Greenberg, 2007).
Other mindfulness based practices utilised come from Tara Brach, 2019 working with a tool called “RAIN” that helps clients work toward deeper understanding and compassion for self and others that can allow for emotional healing.