Dr. Lara James, NCPS

Person-centred work focuses on your experience and priorities and helps build a steady, empathic therapeutic relationship. It is useful when someone needs a calm space to describe feelings and make decisions about change.

Psychodynamic ideas look at repeated patterns and past influences to help explain current difficulties. This can be helpful for people who want to understand where longstanding problems originate and how they affect present relationships.

Cognitive-behavioural techniques target unhelpful thoughts and behaviours with practical exercises and small experiments. These methods often help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and coping with stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and will adapt methods as therapy progresses in a collaborative way.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can suit a quick check-in, and messaging supports shorter or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.