
What We Do
Therapies We Practice
Here at Bennett & Associates Psychotherapy, we employ more than one therapy to meet the needs of our clientsand to help them on their healing journey. These are some of the therapies we specialise in:
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotion-focused Therapy (EFT) is designed to help people identify, express, regulate, make sense of and transform emotion. Emotions tell us what is important to us in a situation and acts as a guide to what we need or want. This, in turn, helps us to figure out what actions are appropriate. The goals of EFT are to help people become aware of and express their emotions, learn to tolerate and regulate them, reflect on them to make sense of them and transform them, making productive use of their emotions.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Mindfulness focuses on becoming aware of moment-to-moment experiences and all incoming thoughts and feelings are accepted instead of attaching to or reacting to them. The goals of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive therapy are to interrupt the automatic processes of the mind (usually distorted thoughts and feelings) and teach a person how to accept and observe thoughts and feelings without judgement; to respond to thoughts and feelings through reflection.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive-behavioural therapy is a therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive (unhealthy) behaviour and "negative" emotions. Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-productive or interferes with everyday living. CBT treatment focuses on changing an individual's thoughts (cognitive patterns) in order to change his or her behaviour and emotional state.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy
(EAP Clients)
Solution Focused Brief therapy is a short goal-directed and collaborative approach to helping a person change. The goals of Solution Focused Brief therapy are to focuses on addressing what clients want to achieve (goals) by exploring the history of the problem through a series of questions and developing effective solutions to that problem based on searches for "exceptions" in the person's experiences, times when that person's goals already happened to some degree.