Types of Therapy Services Available
Below you can find out a little about Cristalle’s therapy services. If you would like to work with Cristalle, simply contact her here to book your completely free consultation call.
What is Psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy can be a powerful, life-changing experience which can help you to improve your mental health, overcome social or emotional challenges, and fulfil your potential.
Psychotherapy recognises the lasting impact of trauma. Trauma is caused by stressful events you experience or witness that make you feel unsafe, helpless or vulnerable.
Cristalle’s approach to psychotherapy is to think about what has happened to you, not what is wrong with you. The focus is on compassionate listening and understanding rather than making a diagnosis.
Psychotherapy is a space to:
- express your feelings and process them in a safe and supportive relationship
- gain deeper insight into the issues you face
- talk about things in a confidential environment that you might not feel be able to discuss with anyone else
- find better ways to cope with feelings and fears
- change the way you think and behave to improve your mental and emotional wellbeing
- improve relationships in your life, including with yourself
- make sense of any clinical diagnoses you have had by understanding what has happened to you
- heal from trauma
- learn to communicate better and tolerate differences in yourself and others.
Using an existential perspective, Cristalle can help with issues around:
-Loneliness, disconnection and relationships
-Depression
-Identity and sense of self
-Low self-esteem and confidence
-Life transitions
-Self-sabotage and choices
-Anxiety
Existential psychotherapy frames the session within a philosophical context and asks questions such as:
-What meaning do I place on my everyday experience?
-What are my values, choices and freedom?
-How can I take responsibility?
-What does death mean to me?
-What does sex mean to me?
-How do I relate to myself and others?
Existential therapy does not pathologise or seek to label and sees all mental illness as a very human response to living.
What are the benefits of existential therapy?
-Develop self-awareness
-To gain a sense of our power and autonomy
-Uncover our choices in challenging situations
-Feel less overwhelmed by life’s challenges
-Gain confidence
-Gain a stronger sense of self
A psychodynamic perspective considers that how you behave is determined by past experiences. Cristalle will work with you to help you make sense of your existing situation and associated feelings, thoughts and memories. Your emotions, thoughts, images and dreams can be examined to gain insight into how you relate to yourself and others.
Psychodynamic therapy can help with issues around:
-Anxiety
-Stress
-Work-life balance
-Relationship issues
-Trauma
-Addiction
-Eating disorders and body image
-Abuse
-Depression
Person-centred therapy creates an empathic and supportive space to share your concerns and struggles without any judgement or attitude that you need to be doing anything differently. Cristalle uses the philosophy that everyone has the potential for growth. Giving the right conditions means that everyone can be loving, creative and knowledgeable.
Cristalle will use the person-centred lens when working with issues around:
-Trauma
-Abuse
-Low self-esteem
-Confidence
-Addiction
-Suicidal thoughts and feelings of hopelessness
What is EMDR?
EMDR therapy aims to help you work through highly traumatic events in your life using specialist eye movement techniques while recalling traumatic imagery, with the aim to reduce the stress and anxiety these images trigger when brought up unexpectedly in day to day life.
EMDR can help with:
-PTSD
-Anxiety
-OCD
-Phobias
-Trauma
What can give rise to psychological trauma?
-Sexual, physical and emotional abuse in childhood
-Sexual assault
-Domestic violence
-Car accidents
-Natural disasters
-War and conflict
-Medical trauma
-Childbirth
-Divorce
Online Therapy
Cristalle is also available on Skype.
While weekly face-to-face sessions are ideal, life doesn’t always work like that, so with this in consideration Cristalle can work over Skype which offers more flexibility for those who may need to travel.
Pregnant Women & New Mothers Support Group
Cristalle is a mother and has deep compassion for the struggles women go through when they are pregnant and then the transition to becoming a new mother. Pregnancy and motherhood can be extremely challenging as well as rewarding and fulfilling. Woman often have to navigate motherhood with their romantic relationships, friendships, wider family unit, sense of identity and career.
They say it takes a village to raise a child, yet many women feel unsupported, and with a lack of village Cristalle will be setting up a support group for pregnant and new mothers to talk about their anxieties, worries and stresses in a compassionate and nurturing environment.
Workshops & Training
With a background in teaching, Cristalle is passionate about sharing her knowledge of psychotherapy and mental health. Cristalle has developed workshops around:
-Recognising the impact of childhood abuse in adulthood
-Narcissistic abuse
-Emotional abuse
-Childhood sexual abuse
-The narcissistic mother
-Emotional regulation for parents