Therapy at Psychology Hut
Psychology Hut therapists are clinically trained in a comprehensive range of therapeutic interventions and can deliver treatment programmes that are tailored to your individual needs. A description of some of the main therapies is listed below to help you understand what might be most helpful.
Evidence-based approaches
Psychology Hut therapists deliver evidence-based psychological therapies to its clients. This means therapy that is based on the best available, current, valid, and relevant evidence. This is always in conjunction with clinical expertise and clients’ values and preferences.
Evidence, expertise, preferences
DBT
Dialectic behaviour therapy
CAT
Cognitive analytic therapy
How does therapy work?
Sessions are delivered by registered clinical psychologists online via Zoom and last for around 50 minutes each. You will typically have at least 12 weekly sessions for a course of therapy. The focus of therapy is to help manage issues that may be impacting on your quality of life or wellbeing. A range of psychological therapies are utilised and are described in more detail below.
12x 50 minute weekly sessions
With a registered clinical psychologist
Delivered online via Zoom
What is a registered clinical psychologist?
A registered clinical psychologist has completed the most rigorous training programme available to psychologists in the UK, and are registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
Clinical psychologists will have completed a degree in psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and will have completed a postgraduate doctorate in clinical psychology.
HCPC registered
Most rigorous training in the UK
Completed a postgraduate doctorate
Therapies we offer
Psychology Hut therapists are clinically trained in a comprehensive range of therapeutic interventions and can deliver treatment programmes that are tailored to your individual needs. A description of some of the main therapies is listed below to help you understand what might be most helpful.
CBT
CBT was first developed in the 1960s by Dr Aaron Beck. It is arguably one of the most well-known psychological therapies and is recommended by NICE guidelines in the treatment for many presentations, including depression, anxiety, improving self-esteem, and changing behaviour.
DBT
DBT is a practically skills based therapy which is aimed at teaching you skills to use in four main domains including, how to tolerate distress more effectively, how to regulate your emotions, how to be more present in the moment and how to be effective interpersonally.
MBCT
MBCT was developed by Jon Kabat Zinn in 1979 originally for the treatment of chronic pain. Today MBCT is recommended by NICE guidelines for prevention of recurrent depression and is helpful for managing many other presentations, including those looking to reduce stress…
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories This type of therapy facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experience to bring these to an adaptive resolution.
Solution-Focused
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a more open-ended form of therapy that is typically delivered over a period of years. Content of the sessions is led by the client. It is the role of the therapist to understand the client’s inner psyche and uncover defence mechanisms using the concepts of transference and counter-transference.