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Private Clients
Autonomy Therapy offers expert help in CBT and EMDR and other therapeutic interventions in the City centre of Norwich, Norfolk, NR2,
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on a person’s thinking and behavioural processes. Every thought an individual has, is always preceded by a thought, such that we ‘think the way we feel’ and this makes us behave a certain way. Therapy focuses on a person’s thinking patterns and changes them for the better. CBT brings our thinking patterns into awareness and allows them to change through the therapeutic process.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) allows a person to expose themselves to their memory networks and to process them very rapidly to allow the logical hemisphere of the brain to function. A person is able to become rational and realistic in their belief systems.
How does therapy work?
The therapeutic process begins with an assessment session and the information gathering process lasts up to two sessions. Clients learn the cause and contributory factors to their difficulties during this phase of treatment and find it very helpful. In the third session, a treatment plan is agreed upon with the client and implemented. Typically, each session lasts 50-60 minutes.
CBT is a short-term based therapy and typically lasts between 8-12 sessions (sometimes longer, depending on the presenting problem), whilst EMDR is typically 3-8 sessions and is specifically designed to treat trauma and other anxiety based disorders.
CBT and EMDR are highly effective therapies and there is scientific evidence to prove that CBT is as effective as medication. Indeed, often when people stop taking medication they return to feeling as they did before they took the medication. At the end of CBT, a client should have learnt a toolkit to enable them to overcome any difficulties they might face in the future. As such, CBT (and EMDR) is deemed to be the therapeutic treatment of choice in the NHS for most mental health issues.
Private Clients can either be referred for CBT through a GP or Psychiatrist or are can self refer. We are able to recommend psychiatric help in conjunction with CBT should this be appropriate.
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