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As recently as twenty or thirty years ago a great many of the people would retire from the jobs that they took early on in life. Long service awards were regularly given out for twenty, thirty and forty years of service. People were retiring on pensions that had accumulated over decades. Since the turn of the century this type of working pattern has declined. The reasons behind this are many, but many of them will have to do with self actualisation.

EMDR Stands for Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. It is possibly one of the most groundbreaking therapies to be discovered and developed in the last thirty years. Discovered by Francine Shapiro in 1988, it is now recognised as an evidence based treatment by the most reputable of therapists globally.

Cognitive behavioural therapy also known as CBT is a therapy that focuses on life situations, how we think about them and our consequential actions and associated behaviour. Cognitive relates to our thoughts and feelings and behaviour relates to the actions that come as a consequence of those thoughts.

Mindfulness based therapies started off as therapies that were implemented to prevent relapse in people suffering with depression. Breathing, meditation and mindfulness exercises are used in the therapy environment to help the client manage negative thoughts. This type of therapy is often referred to as MCBT or mindfulness based cognitive therapy. Using these tools, the depression therapist can then teach the client how to break away from the negative thought patterns that they are experiencing.

It is usually a major life event that prompts a person to think about counselling. We’ve all heard about it. The word gets passed about freely in the media, on television shows and in the media. We hear about it in schools and even at our local doctor’s surgery. It is easy to form an idea about what counselling is. But do we really know?

Mention the word psychotherapy and for many people the name of Sigmund Freud pops up. Psychotherapy has come a long way since the days of Freud whose historic figure reminds us of the evolution of this practice.