CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & THERAPY
High-quality and expert online psychological therapy in Devon and the UK
How does therapy work?
Assessment for therapy
Individual therapy begins with an assessment meeting to discuss the problems you are facing and explore how therapy might support you.
The first meeting is the beginning of your therapy journey. We work together to create a plan for therapy in a safe, supportive and confidential space. This is an opportunity for you to be guided in exploring and reflecting on the current challenges and to think about how you might work towards change and growth over the course of therapy.
To support this process, the first session is up to 90 minutes.
Therapy sessions
In the early therapy sessions, we will develop a shared understanding of your experiences that is informed by psychological theory and evidence-based frameworks. We will consider the psychological roots of the problems to make better sense of how things developed and why problems are ongoing.
As therapy progresses, we work together to explore, apply and practice clinical psychology therapy interventions and approaches. You will be invited to review progress regularly and share feedback on your therapy journey to help guide our direction.
Online clinical psychology and therapy sessions are available on Mondays (day-time and evenings), Thursdays (afternoon and evenings), and Fridays (day-time).
What therapy approaches are used?
All psychology and therapy services are delivered by HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist, Dr Kayleigh Darch.
This means that you will experience expert, high-quality and specialised support that is tailored to you, integrates different approaches based on your needs, and is informed by evidence and clinical research.
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CBT: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT involves exploring how thoughts, beliefs and thinking patterns impact on our emotional wellbeing, responses and bodily experiences. It helps us recognise how our interpretations and impressions of events shape how we feel and what we do. CBT might start with here-and-now problems and can also include exploring the impact of the past on the present. Trauma-focused CBT is offered to support recovery from trauma experiences.
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CFT: Compassion Focused Therapy
CFT helps us train our minds in bringing compassion into our daily lives. It acknowledges the in-built capacity we all have for kindness, empathy, warmth and sensitivity, and also the blocks and barriers that might get in the way of connecting with these areas. CFT helps us reduce feelings of threat and self-criticism and develop our skills and resources to feel safer and soothed as we learn to become a better friend to ourselves.
ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT helps us work towards living a more meaningful and purposeful life. It involves building on our personal values to shape our daily lives and future. With ACT practices and skills, we learn how to develop greater psychological flexibility, meaning that we enhance our ability to de-fuse from unhelpful thinking and approach rather than avoid experiences (even those which are unwanted).
Mindfulness: Mindfulness based therapies
Mindfulness-based interventions help us develop skills with retraining our attention. It helps us understand the role of attention and awareness on how we feel and what we do. We learn how to pay attention without judgement and bring our focus to the present moment with purpose and clarity. Mindfulness-based therapy helps to change the way we think and feel about our inner and external experiences, and become more self-aware.