At IWMH we offer a number of therapeutic approaches. We work in a collaborative manner to tailor a personalized treatment plan for the clients optimal growth and personal goals. In addition to the therapies listed below, we have a strong focus on therapeutic lifestyle changes to foster individual and social wellbeing.
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is the most widely used therapy around the world today. It is a very practical approach that focuses on changing unhelpful patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you build the skills you need to live a rich and meaningful life. The aims are to teach you psychological skills to deal with your painful thoughts and feelings effectively, so that they have less impact and influence over you. ACT focused on helping you clarify what is truly important and meaningful to you, and helps you use these to inspire you and motivate you to reach your goals.
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is the greatest assistance for people who have difficulty controlling their emotions. It focuses on helping people change unhelpful ways of thinking and behaving, with an emphasis on helping you; Understand and manage emotions, handle stress without making impulsive or destructive choices , focus your mind and centre yourself, balance your thinking and understand other perspectives.
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) aims to understand how the problems came about and how they relate to your current social and personal life. The focus in IPT is on helping patients to; express feelings about problems both the painful feelings as well as the pleasant ones, accept painful feelings, assess communication patterns to identify communication failures, express feelings and wishes more directly, resolve conflicts with the important people in your life by first, identifying the conflicts and then making choices about a plan of action
• Psychodynamic Therapy focuses on unconscious thoughts and feelings that contribute to a person’s present distress. It helps you recognise these thoughts or feelings and make connections with events from childhood or early relationships that may be contributing to how you behave and relate to others. As you become aware of their influence on your present behaviour, you can be taught to understand thoughts and feelings in different ways and overcome issues that were not dealt with at an earlier stage of emotional development.
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy is goal oriented, targeting the desired outcome of therapy as a solution rather than focusing on the symptoms or issues that brought someone to therapy. This technique emphasizes present and future circumstances and desires over past experiences. The therapist encourages the client to imagine the future that he or she wants and then the therapist and client collaborate on a series of steps to achieve that goal. This form of therapy involves developing a vision of one’s future, and then determining what skills, resources, and abilities a person already possesses that can be enhanced in order to attain the desired outcome.