Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
IPT targets depression and the connection between depression and relationships, our interaction with others. This style of therapy is time-limited between 12 – 16 sessions, using present-focused treatments that encourages the person suffering with depression to regain control of mood and functioning.
The foundation of IPT is built on two major principles:
- Depression is a medical illness, rather than the person’s fault or personal defect; and is a treatable condition. This definition is aiming to reduce self-blame.
- Mood and life situations are related. Building on interpersonal theory and psychosocial research on depression, IPT makes a practical link between the person’s mood and disturbing life events that either trigger or follow from the onset of the mood disorder.
How IPT therapy progresses
There are 3 phases of treatment:
Beginning – This is where we understand the context of the depression and also the patterns of relationships over time using strategies such as a depression time-line and personal inventory.
Middle phase – In the middle phase of treatment, I use specific strategies to deal with whichever of the four potential problem areas is the focus. This might involve appropriate mourning in complicated bereavement, resolving an interpersonal struggle in a role dispute, helping a person to mourn the loss of an old role and assume a new one in a role transition, or decreasing social isolation for interpersonal deficits.
Ending phase – Here we explore the meaning of endings and how they may have impacted on mood and relationships in the past. We look at what has been achieved through therapy and how to progress once therapy has ended.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
Inter Personal Therapy (IPT)
IPT targets depression and the connection between depression and relationships, our interaction with others.
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
An EMDR approach looks at how past emotionally charged experiences are overly influencing their present emotions, sensations and thoughts about themselves.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT is a type of psychotherapy that emphasises acceptance as a way to deal with negative thoughts, feelings, symptoms, or circumstances.
Workshop for confidence/ imposter syndrome
The workshops will focus on the problematic internal dialogue – what we think we are good at and how others might judge us – that can lead to Imposter syndrome.
