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Work through your issues with the support of others who understand what you are going through.

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Why Group Therapy

If you are experiencing challenges, group therapy can be an invaluable resource. With Alinea Psychologies, you'll be able to work through your issues with the support of others who understand what you're going through.

This type of therapy can help you to feel less isolated, and it can also give you new perspectives on your problem. With the guidance of a skilled therapist, you'll be able to explore your feelings and start working towards a solution.

Generalised Anxiety

This group is based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). This group aims to teach patients the concepts of CBT and in particular, the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Each session is structured to help individuals identify their difficult emotions, unhelpful thinking patterns and detrimental behaviours, as well as provide them with alternative strategies and techniques to help change these patterns. Individuals are also set weekly homework tasks to help them practice the skills and techniques learnt in the session.

The weeks in this group will cover:

  • CBT foundations - Understanding the foundations of CBT and how a formulation is done including the interplay between thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
  • Anxiety - Understanding the role of anxiety as well as the maintenance cycle of anxiety and the neuroscience behind why anxiety exists.
  • Understanding your anxiety - Developing a personal formulation and how life experiences can lead to helpful or unhelpful coping strategies.
  • Understanding your own cycle - Understanding the relationship with the personal formulation, beneficial in dealing with situations as well as understanding personal barriers to change.
  • Thinking styles - Learning how thinking styles can impact our ability to cope with life and difficult situations.
  • Dealing with difficult situations - Learning useful strategies to manage negative internal voices and negative thinking styles.
  • Dealing with anxiety - Understand techniques of how to break the cycle of anxiety and cope with anxious times.

Therapist: Dr. Catherine Barnes  ·  Sessions: 6 x 1 hour weekly sessions  ·  Attendees: Six  ·  Cost: £300

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Self Esteem

This 6-week group session is based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy. This group aims to teach participants the concepts of CBT and in particular, the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

Each session is structured to help individuals to understand their experience, identify their difficult emotions, unhelpful thinking patterns and detrimental behaviours as well as provide them with alternative strategies and techniques to help change these patterns. Individuals are also set weekly homework tasks to help them practice the skills and techniques learnt in the session.

The weeks in this group will cover:

  • The Nature of Self-Esteem: causes and effects.
  • The pathological critic: the origins of the critic and why we listen to it.
  • Disarming the critic: making your critic useless.
  • Accurate self-assessment: your weaknesses and your strengths.
  • Cognitive Distortions: thinking styles and combating this.
  • Defusing painful thoughts.
  • Compassion and the problem of worth.
  • Acting on your values.
  • The shoulds: how shoulds affect your self-esteem.
  • Handling mistakes.
  • Responding to criticism.

Therapist: Dr. Catherine Barnes  ·  Sessions: 6 x 1 hour weekly sessions  ·  Attendees: Six  ·  Cost: £300

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Social Anxiety

This group is based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This 6-week group aims to teach patients the concepts of CBT and in particular, the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

Each session is structured to help individuals identify their difficult emotions, unhelpful thinking patterns and detrimental behaviours, as well as provide them with alternative strategies and techniques to help change these patterns. Individuals are also set weekly homework tasks to help them practice the skills and techniques learnt in the session.

The weeks in this group will cover:

  • CBT foundations - Understanding the foundations of CBT and how a formulation is done including the interplay between thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
  • Social anxiety - Understanding the role of anxiety as well as the maintenance cycle of anxiety and the neuroscience behind why anxiety exists.
  • Understanding your anxiety - Developing a personal formulation of your anxiety.
  • Self-esteem - Develop an understanding of how this can be developed as well as understand how experiences can lead to a critical internal dialogue and the need for perfectionism.
  • Understanding your own cycle - Understanding the relationship with the personal formulation and ways of coping with difficult times.
  • Thinking styles - Learning how thinking styles can impact our ability to cope with life and difficult situations.
  • Dealing with difficult situations - Learning useful strategies that can help manage negative internal voices and negative thinking styles.
  • Dealing with anxiety - Understand techniques of how to break the cycle of anxiety and cope with anxious times.

Therapist: Dr. Catherine Barnes  ·  Sessions: 6 x 1 hour weekly sessions  ·  Attendees: Six  ·  Cost: £300

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Eating Disorders / Disordered Eating

This topic will be covered by three groups each with their own modules. Each group in this section can be attended independently however the recommended order would be to start with the motivation and life directions group. These modules will be largely based on the Maudsley model of treatment for adults.

  • Motivation and life directions
  • Managing Emotions Group
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) module

The motivation group is based on Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) combined with some relapse prevention work in preparation for more change-based groups. Individuals commonly have multiple motivations about a given subject that fluctuate at different times. The aim of this group is to aid the understanding of this process and identify what the barriers are to change, with a specific focus on anorexia and other eating disorder behaviours.

The Managing Emotions group is a closed group that aims to help understand the purpose of emotions and how they have developed, to then be better able to recognise and manage difficult emotions. This group also looks at personal relationships and how to navigate and improve relationships and ways of interacting as well as getting needs met.

Therapist: Meela  ·  Sessions: Module 1 - 6 sessions, Module 2 - 6 sessions, Module 3 - 6 sessions  ·  Attendees: Six  ·  Cost: £300 per module

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