Biological
Neurodevelopment, physical health, sleep, hormones, medication, sensory processing, and nervous-system responses.
Our approach
Therapy should fit the person—not the person to the therapy.
We begin by understanding your experience and then draw from psychological models relevant to your needs, creating a coherent and individualised way of working.
The biopsychosocial model
Psychological distress rarely has one cause. Therapy considers how different influences interact in your particular life.
Psychological
Thoughts, emotions, beliefs, coping strategies, attention, memory, learning, and earlier experiences.
Social and relational
Family, culture, identity, discrimination, finances, work, education, community, and access to support.
Psychological formulation
A formulation is a shared, evolving explanation of what you are experiencing and what may be maintaining it. Rather than asking only “What diagnosis fits?”, it asks what happened, what increased vulnerability, what triggered the difficulty, what keeps it going, and what strengths may support change.
A formulation is not a final judgement about you. It evolves as new perspectives emerge.
Person-centred therapy
Empathy, authenticity, and respect form the foundation. You remain the expert on your own experience.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT explores links between thoughts, feelings, physical responses, and behaviour, used flexibly rather than as a rigid worksheet programme.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
ACT develops psychological flexibility: making room for difficult experiences while acting in line with what matters.
Compassion-focused ideas
Helpful where shame or self-criticism dominate, developing greater warmth, courage, and balance.
Relational work
Attention to trust, safety, and communication within therapy can illuminate patterns of closeness and connection elsewhere.
Culturally responsive care
Gender, sexuality, culture, family, community, discrimination, and social expectations are understood as part of psychological wellbeing.
Neurodiversity-affirming practice
There is no single correct way for a brain to work. Affirming therapy does not ignore disability, distress, or support needs; it explores them without assuming difference itself is defective.
Work may include clear structure and expectations, direct communication, flexible pacing, reduced reliance on ambiguous questions, attention to sensory and executive-function needs, and time to pause or process before responding.
Understanding is not fixed.
We review the work together and adjust according to what is helpful.