Therapeutic Styles

Can talk therapy create lasting change? Explore the strengths and limits of CBT, ACT and EMDR—and what helps turn self-understanding into lasting action.

A final reflection on six weeks of self-led therapy, exploring meaning, values, and the difficult choices that come with living more honestly.

What is Logotherapy? Learn how Viktor Frankl’s meaning-focused therapy helps people navigate purpose, suffering and life direction. A reflective look at purpose, suffering and direction from the Therapist in Therapy series.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) explained through a therapist’s real-life journey. Learn how to act with integrity despite fear, guilt and uncertainty. What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? Discover how ACT builds psychological flexibility.

A therapist explores Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to understand stress, irritation and interruptions — and how hidden mental rules shape our reactions.

What is Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) and how can it help? Learn how CFT reduces self-criticism, stress and emotional overload, and how one therapist is using this for a self-led therapy intervention in their personal life.

A therapist documents a six-week, self-led therapeutic reset during burnout, using CFT, NLP, ACT, Adlerian Therapy and Logotherapy to manage stress, reactivity and the onwards journey.

Discover how EMDR therapy helps process trauma, anxiety and emotional triggers by reshaping the brain’s responses. A clear, accessible guide to EMDR’s real benefits.

The work of Alfred Adler taught us that a more holistic view of a person and their lifestyle might be useful in understanding behaviours. I want to concentrate particularly on values clarification

Watch this short extract of Dr Sean Feit Oakes talking about trauma-informed yoga, explaining to yoga teachers why it matters to the individual.

Before I studied cognitive behavioural therapy, I had heard of it, certainly had it recommended by friends... But no one had ever taken the time to explain what it actually was.