Psychological Therapy
At True North Psychology, our psychologists use a variety of evidence-based therapies.
Your psychologist will work with you to create a personalised treatment plan based on your needs in therapy, and evidence-based treatment approaches, helping you reach your goals as effectively as possible.
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy aims to remedy maladaptive beliefs (schemas) and coping styles learnt via unmet childhood needs and adverse childhood environments. Treatment aims to blend cognitive, experiential, behavioural, and interpersonal techniques to assist clients in healing their schemas and coping mechanisms with more adaptive beliefs and behaviours. More info can be found on our Schema Therapy page.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a skills-based treatment designed to help you understand your emotions, cope better with distressing feelings and events, improve your relationships with others and balance your own needs and wants with those of others. Skills typically cover the areas of Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Effectiveness. ​For more information, see our BPD and DBT Resources page.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT helps you to understand the link between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It uses cognitive strategies to improve your relationship with your thoughts and increase engagement in activities that make life worth living. CBT is one of the world’s most-used therapies and is effective in treating depression, anxiety, OCD and PTSD.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment approach that enables individuals to process and heal from distressing memories and experiences in a safe and structured manner. EMDR can help individuals with unresolved trauma or anxiety relating to distressing memories, and has been found to be an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). More info can be found on our EMDR Therapy page.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy is a short term, attachment-focused therapy that aims to resolve interpersonal problems and achieve a reduction in symptoms. The therapeutic relationship is used as a means to bring about change in the client's interpersonal relationships and increase social supports to better manage current distress.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy
Gottman Couples Therapy is an evidence-based approach that helps partners build stronger relationships through improving communication, managing conflict, and enhancing emotional intimacy. It focuses on identifying and changing negative interaction patterns, fostering trust, and creating shared meaning. The goal is to build a more resilient, connected, and fulfilling partnership. See our Relationship Counselling page.
Acceptance Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a mindfulness-based therapy that teaches you the skills to accept those things that are not within your personal control, and commit to action that improves your life. There are six key principles of ACT: mindfulness, acceptance, defusion from distressing thoughts, exploration of values, committed action, and connecting with the observer self.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Solution Focused Brief Therapy is a goal directed therapy that utilises the patient's own skills and resources to make changes in their life to improve their current situation and make life meaningful​. It focuses primarily on the present and future to achieve patient goals, with only minimal discussion of historical content.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy explores how unconscious thoughts and past experiences influence current behavior and emotions. By examining early relationships, unresolved conflicts, and emotional patterns, this approach helps individuals gain insight into their inner world. It fosters personal growth, improves self-awareness, and promotes healthier ways of coping with life’s challenges.
Emotion Focused Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps individuals and couples identify, understand, and process emotions to improve emotional regulation and relationship dynamics. By exploring attachment needs and related emotions, EFT fosters deeper emotional connections, enhances communication, and resolves conflicts, promoting healing, personal growth, and stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
CBT- E (Enhanced CBT)
CBT-E is a structured treatment effective in the management of eating disorders. CBT-E aims to re-establish regular and adequate eating while challenging the underlying thought processes that prolong eating disorders. Treatment courses vary, but is often weekly to provide adequate support, and lasts 20-40 sessions depending on the client’s needs. See more on our Eating Disorder page.