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THERAPY PHILOSOPHYTherapy should be collaboration that is transformative and meaningful, leading to improvements in your vitality, emotional well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), is a highly-focused form of talking therapy that aims to increase wellbeing and reduce suffering. ISTDP draws on attachment theory, psychodynamic theory, emotion theory, and neurobiology. The goals of ISTDP are not only to reduce symptomatic suffering, but to also help people live their best lives.
ISTDP is an evidence-based treatment for a wide range of difficulties including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, relational difficulties, personality disorders, trauma and complex trauma.
ISTDP has also been found to be helpful in treating physical conditions that are medically complex and intersect with psychological wellbeing such as IBS, chronic pain, non-epileptic seizures. Treatment varies in length, depending on client needs; however, as the ‘intensive short-term’ naming implies, the idea is to accelerate therapeutic growth.
What will our therapy sessions look like?
Therapy is a process that involves both of us working together to understand you, and to support you in overcoming the blocks and difficulties that arise as you face your challenges. This type of collaboration can be very transformative and meaningful, leading to improvements in your vitality, emotional well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
Individual treatment varies in length, depending on a person’s goals and needs. A typical treatment plan involves a recommendation of weekly or fortnightly sessions.
The first session is known as ‘trial therapy’ and is scheduled for up to two hours to allow you to experience the therapy and therapist. This way you can determine whether this form of therapy is right for you. Further sessions will be of 80 minute duration.
The first session is a chance to ‘try out’ the therapy
Sessions are typically 80 minutes
Prior to booking you will be offered a 15-minute phone conversation to determine if you’d like to proceed
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