Area: Burnley, East Lancashire, and Online
Email: newhorizonstherapyservices@outlook.com
I began practising as a psychotherapist in 2007, working in a trauma service using CBT and EMDR. In 2013, whilst working in a Community Mental Health Team, I discovered Cognitive Analytic Therapy. I found the approach to be so helpful that I went on to complete CAT Practitioner training, qualifying in 2018. Since then, I have been working with the Cognitive Analytic Therapy model in NHS, independent and third sector settings. I’m also an accredited CAT Supervisor and offer training in CAT at a range of different organisations. I find CAT helpful as a consultation tool to support teams and individuals to work with people living challenging lives. I also use CAT as model for assessment for work in family court proceedings.
As a direct therapy, I use CAT both as a pure model and alongside EMDR and other therapy techniques. In therapy I work with both adults and young people. With both, I hope to support improved emotional wellbeing through a genuine therapeutic relationship that supports shared understanding.
As a therapist, I aim to offer a supportive therapeutic relationship that encourages understanding of the challenges you might be facing. Together we’ll work towards promoting your recognition of patterns of coping and relating. Using the brief PR approach, we can notice patterns in current, everyday situations like at work or in specific relationships and interactions. Focussing on a specific area can help us to get to know ourselves better. In turn this helps us break free of ways of being that are no longer helpful. The map we develop together supports you to recognise yourself. Our aim would be to explore alternatives to ways of coping with challenges and struggles, and move out of these ways that no longer feel helpful.
