Psychology Strategies for Mental Health
Just as no two weather forecasts are the same, therapy is tailored to your individual experiences, needs, and goals. Therapy is not one-size-fits-all.A range of evidence-based approaches may be integrated to best support your growth.
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Cognitive Behavioural TherapyÂ
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the relationship between thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours. It helps individuals identify unhelpful thinking patterns and behavioural responses that may contribute to distress. By gaining insight into patterns that perpetuate your challenges you can then develop more balanced and healthy ways of thinking and coping.
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Acceptance and Commitment TherapyÂ
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps individuals develop a different relationship with difficult thoughts, emotions, and internal experiences. Rather than trying to eliminate distress, ACT focuses on increasing psychological flexibility — the ability to make space for discomfort while continuing to act in ways that align with personal values. Treatment often includes mindfulness strategies, acceptance techniques, values clarification, and committed behavioural action
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Solution Focused TherapyÂ
Solution Focused Therapy is a collaborative, goal-oriented approach that focuses on identifying strengths, existing resources, and practical solutions rather than extensively analysing problems or past difficulties. Therapy supports individuals to clarify what they would like to change, recognise times when the problem is less present, and build on strategies that are already working. Sessions are typically future-focused and emphasise small, achievable steps toward meaningful change.
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Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy is an integrative cognitive therapy focused on identifying and addressing self-defeating negative and dysfunctional patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving (schemas) that are often developed in early childhood and repeated over time. These schemas can influence how individuals view themselves, others, and the world, and may create ongoing obstacles to having emotional needs met, maintaining healthy relationships, and achieving personal goals. Schemas are often perpetuated through habitual coping behaviours and relational patterns. The goal of treatment is to help individuals recognise and break these longstanding patterns, process underlying emotional experiences, and develop healthier, more adaptive ways of thinking, feeling, and responding.
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Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is designed to strengthen an individual’s motivation and confidence to make meaningful change. Rather than directing or persuading, motivational interviewing helps people explore ambivalence, clarify personal values, and identify their own reasons for change in a supportive and non-judgemental environment.
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Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal Therapy focuses on the relationships you have with others and how these relationships impact your emotional wellbeing. The premise is that relationships and experiences such as conflict, loss, life changes, or difficulties connecting with others can strongly affect mood and mental health. Therapy focuses on developing strategies to better manage interpersonal difficulties, with the understanding that improving relationships and social support can improve emotional wellbeing.
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Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is a therapeutic approach that views the experiences and events in our lives as stories that shape how we see ourselves, others, and the world around us. Therapy focuses on helping individuals identify unhelpful or limiting stories that may have developed over time, and to re-author alternative stories that better reflect their values, strengths, identity, and preferred future. It supports people to view themselves as separate from their problems, rather than being defined by them