CBT is an effective treatment for people of all ages, including children, adolescents, and adults. CBT can address numerous conditions, such as depressive disorder, anxiety disorders including panic and generalised anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders, insomnia and many others.
Your Individual Therapy
CBT Therapy
Our job is to offer you high quality treatments and psychotherapy. Whether you are self-funding your individual CBT, using private medical insurance, referred from contracted organisation or seen via a NHS contracts everyone is treated with the same quality service by our cognitive behavioural therapists.
With 16+ years experience, BABCP accredited, experienced in both the NHS and Private Sectors. Sonya is able to help you to understand the difficulties you have been experiencing and work through these using evidence based, practical methods and strategies.
CBT helps you to learn about the interaction between your thoughts, emotions, behaviours and bodily sensations. It is a collaborative therapy, therapist and client work together. We develop an understanding of you in the context of your experiences, insights can be made.
You are supported, so that you can make the changes needed, so that you can live the life you want to live.
Types of Therapy Offered:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Compassion Focussed Therapy
Schema Therapy
Trauma Focussed CBT
Your Mental Health
A Whole life approach
Taking care of our mental health, often starts when we reach the point of difficulty or crisis. Our aim, is to support you, to offer early intervention and prevention if possible and effective treatment at a point of crisis.
It is important to note that 1 in 4 people will experience anxiety or depression. (WHO). Our mental health can slide into mental ill health in the same way we might catch a cold or flu, or develop an illness. Learning to notice this, understanding how to manage it and recover and heal, can allow us to continue to live the life we want.
Our treatment protocols are effective, it is not just about talking therapy, it is practical strategies that help. CBT is about helping you to have the insights and understanding of yourself in the context of your experience, while supporting you to become your own therapist. An investment in yourself for the future, allowing you to have a toolbox of understanding and strategies.
Initial stages of therapy tend to focus on compassion, understanding and practical strategies that can help, the first aid stage. Over time, we develop an understanding of you in the context of your life and experience. This understanding allows deeper insights and application of long lasting strategies and healing. The healing and recovery stage.
In addition to 1:1 therapy, support can include Bespoke Sessions, Mental Health workshops, Mental Health First Aid, along with Mindfulness programmes, and coaching.
Your Mindfulness
For You, Your Children, Your Workplace
‘Being Alive and Knowing it’
CBT in Partnership can offer you a range of options. From bespoke sessions, 1:1 or taster sessions through to courses.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), the Gold Standard Mindfulness programmes are available. These include Finding Peace in a Frantic World, particularly suited for Businesses; Mindfulness for Life, for those who want to live their life to the full; Mindfulness for Depression, for people who have experienced depression and is as effective as a course of anti-depressants for the relapse prevention. There are all available to you.
Mindfulness in Schools (MiSP) is available for Schools and groups. The health of our children is of utmost importance to us and Mindfulness can support their mental health and support them to be develop a way of being in the world that can help them to be successful in their lives. Fully trained with the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP).
Mindfulness sessions and courses are available for your workplace.
“CBT is a Gold Standard Treatment. Listed as a treatment of choice in Government NICE Guidelines. ”
Your choice of location
Online offers you the option to meet from anywhere in the UK.
In person, you are able to meet in our welcoming, private therapy room in Tunbridge Wells town centre.
NB. At present, we are unable to accept 1:1 under 18 referrals.
“After this therapy programme with Sonya, I am for the first time in my life, dealing with complex emotions in a healthy way.
Sonya has helped me to feel safe and live a balanced and happy life.
I cannot thank Sonya enough for the tools she has provided me with.
It has been a truly life changing experience. ”
Our Workshops
Our workshops offer an alternative approach for you.
We offer workshops that provide useful, insightful and practical information, an opportunity for you to learn about you, your brain and your mental health. Our Workshops offer customised tools as a step towards creating the positive changes that you want.