If the cause of your weight gain is due to unresolved hurts or trauma from your past, psychological treatments are very effective in helping you to uncover and deal with these traumas. The thoughts and beliefs that drive a person to resort to self-soothing by eating more than they need “comfort food”, can be challenged…
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Psychological factors can often play a negative role in the treatment and progression of diseases and illness. Health psychology, or behavioural medicine, is where the science of medicine and psychology intersect. It is the application of the principles of psychotherapy to improve and optimise physical health, lifestyle management, treatment compliance and the prevention of many…
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Human emotions can be difficult to define into specific categories. This is very true of worry and anxiety. In some way, they both have so much in common. Negative thoughts, shortness of breath and struggling to sleep are just some of the overlapping symptoms of both. Many people find it difficult to differentiate between the…
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It’s no secret that the Coronavirus and Covid-19 seemed to appear out of nowhere and within weeks the whole world had so stop business as normal and start taking precautions. There is talk that things will never go back to the way they were before Covid-19 and that we must all prepare for a “new…
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If you had an accident and you broke your leg, what would you do? You rush to the hospital emergency centre and you would see a doctor, right? The doctor will request X-rays and might refer you to an orthopaedic surgeon who will then decide whether or not you need to have an operation. Did…
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Every person feels sadness, lonely or empty at some point in their lives. Sorrow and feelings of helplessness are a natural part of life. Sad and upsetting things happen to everyone during their life. However, when those feelings of sadness continue for prolonged periods of time and start to interfere with your everyday life and…
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Therapy scenes on movies or TV always show the client lying down on a couch talking about their childhood while the therapist sits in a chair taking notes. This is not the way we run most sessions in real life. However, as the client, you are welcome to sit or lay down – whichever makes…
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Mood disorder used to be called mood affective disorder and is a group of conditions that reveal themselves through their affect on your moods. A mood disorder will also cause you to act in a way that is inconsistent with what is happening around you. It will also interfere with your ability to function or…
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Exposure to an extremely traumatic event can result in a number of very unpleasant symptoms that can include flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, hopelessness, anxiety, emotional numbing, anger, avoidance of any reminders of the traumatic event and being easily startled. These are a normal response to an abnormal event. We use an evidence-based therapeutic technique called Prolonged-Exposure Therapy (P-ET)…
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Schema-focussed therapy was developed in the United States in the 1980’s and 1990’s by Dr Jeffrey Young. It has since developed and has become a mainstream therapy across North America, South America, Europe, Australia and now, here in South Africa. Schema-focussed therapy is an integrative approach to therapy and incorporates many aspects of cognitive therapies,…
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