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Although the primary counselling and therapy model used by GHCMC is a Cognitive Behavioural Approach, there are other models of therapy utilised and made available for clients that best fit their experiences. Other models of therapy used by your GHCMC Counsellor include Gestalt Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Narrative Therapy.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy & Cognitive Emotive Behavioural Therapy: is an approach used with much success over the years by therapists. These therapies are based on the concept that cognition, that is largely our thoughts and beliefs, influence how we experience and interpret things about ourselves and the world we live in. Such interpretations and experiences are also acquainted with how one acts in response, emotionally and behaviourally to those understanding. In essence what is ‘learnt’ from a perceptive world makes us possess a tendency to determine how we will think and behave towards those interpreted understandings or experiences.

A problematic concern comes about only when our thoughts and beliefs are perceived to be irrational, unreasonable, or baseless, and are essentially reflected in the undesirable emotional and behavioural content of our own nature. This effect on our own nature is when difficulties occur. Quite often this is observed in people with self defeating cognition who experience depression, anxiety and other mental disorders. Along with those who have experienced parental neglect, past injustices, anger, poor self-esteem, self loathing, frustration, discontentment or have unacceptable habitual mannerism.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is there to assist people with undesirable and self-defeating cognitive, emotional and behavioural patterns that have been learnt by helping them gain new skills and confidence to make positive and realistic changes to existing maladaptive behavioural patterns. These changes are made by challenging, disputing, and distinguishing, those misconceived practices considered to be unsuitable to a person’s social repertoire.

Other approaches to therapy offered by GHCMC that may be of assistance to people to help meet their needs and assist them in finding resolution to ongoing concerns are the following:

Gestalt Therapy: This is designed to help people experience the present moment more fully and gain awareness of what they are thinking, feeling and doing. As people’s lives are fragmented they have a tendency to sabotage their potential by losing touch with their inner selves, and by not coming to terms with any unfinished business. Gestalt therapy is designed to bring people back in touch with the full range of their experiences so they can go on to be self determined individuals.

Solution-Focused Therapy: This is an active form of therapy, focusing on the solution to problems rather than focusing on the pathology of problems. The assumption of the therapist is that problems are temporary and that the client has the resources to solve problems. It is dependent upon using the identified strengths of the client, empowering them with self-sufficiency and enhancing the need for positive change. The major task of therapy is to help the client do something different. The focus on the problem is redirected towards solution already existing within the clients coping repertoire. Goals are framed in positive terms with the expectancy for change to create the context for further change.

Narrative Therapy: Narrative therapy is structured on the concept of ‘storying’. Using ‘storying’, the client is invited to tell the story of how the problem has influenced their life. Clients are encouraged to create a new and preferred alternative story in which the problem does not dominate their life. This form of therapy is done by assisting the client to recognise that the problem is the problem, as opposed to the person being the problem.

GHCMC believes the type therapeutic model/intervention it offers to its clients are based on those best practices conducted by research to enable us in assisting clients find the best practical resolve to their ongoing concerns.