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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Schema Therapy
Schema therapy is a therapeutic modality that incorporates techniques and concepts from different therapeutic schools. It is an evidence-based approach, having as its founder Jeffrey Young. The concept of a schema can be looked at as a specific way in which an individual has internalised an experience, which can be both positive or negative in its nature. Imagine a schema as a sensitive area on your arm, and every single time someone touches or gets a hold of your arm, that area becomes painful. Whenever we encounter situations that bare a resemblance to events from our past, our schemas become active, and they determine a certain behavioural response aimed at counterbalancing the effect of the schema being triggered. Such behavioural or attitudinal response is called a mode. Fundamentally, schemas can be looked at as needs left unmet throughout our development, and those unmet needs determined the formation of maladaptive schemas, which as a result created the need of coping mechanisms or modes. Schema therapy is considered to be a trans-diagnostic model, meaning that it can be used across a wide range of specific diagnosis, because its model considers a diagnosis as an individual-specific manifestation of that particular individual’s unmet needs. Schema therapy aims to address those unmet needs, being a relation-based modality, focusing on the therapeutic alliance between the client and the therapist, and the alliance itself becomes a contributor to the healing process.
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a therapy treatment designed for people who experience difficulties in managing their emotions and who may have found unhelpful ways of coping. DBT aims to teach specific skills and help build a life worth living.
The treatment focuses on four core skills:
1. Mindfulness
The skills taught are drawn from traditional mindfulness and incorporate different types of meditation practices. Mindfulness is central to DBT and focuses on the states of mind known as “emotion mind” and “rational mind”, aiming at balancing them which leads to the third state of mind known as “wise mind”.
Interpersonal effectiveness
These skills aim to teach you ways to be more effective in your interpersonal relationships and how to cope with conflicts whilst maintaining self-respect.
Emotion regulation
Emotion regulation focuses on understanding and labelling emotions and teaches skills to cope with intense emotional states whilst maintaining positive emotions in the long term.
Distress tolerance
This teaches crisis survival skills to help you cope when you can’t immediately change the situation. It contains skills on how to tolerate difficult feelings, without resorting to impulsive strategies or ways that only make things worse.
Compassion Focused Therapy
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a powerful new psychotherapy based on cutting-edge research into how the human mind works. It has been clinically proven to be successful in a wide range of psychological problems. The aim is to help you create a rich, full, and meaningful life. The first step is to clarify your values look at how you can set goals and take action to change your life for the better - and in the process, develop a sense of meaning, purpose, and vitality. The other aim is to teach you mindfulness skills that will allow you to handle painful thoughts and feelings effectively, in such a way that they have less impact and influence over you.
Couples Therapy
Neurodevelopmental Assessments
Oros clinic has created a neurodevelopmental pathway, in response to the growing demand for this specialist assessments. The clinic ensures that while being a private provider, it abides to the highest standards of care, as per the National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines.
The clinic offers specialist ADHD assessments for adults, and ASC assessments for children, adolescents, and adults.
Besides the assessment services, the clinic offers post-diagnostic care and interventions using a person-centred approach.