Psychologist & therapist in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Cognitive behavioural therapy is a short-term, goal-led approach. You and your practitioner work out which thoughts and habits are holding a problem in place, then practise alternatives between sessions.

Twelve of the fifteen practitioners at our Gosforth clinic are trained in CBT, and the range between them is wide. Six work with ADHD, six with autism, five with eating difficulties, and all twelve with anxiety. That means the Pathway Team can match you on the specific thing you are dealing with rather than on who has a slot free.

Appointments are at the Grainger Suite in Dobson House, with parking on site and the Regent Centre Metro a few minutes away. Sessions can move online for any week when getting across the city is harder.

ACT is a mindfulness-based therapy that changes your relationship with anxious thoughts instead of trying to argue them away, which is why it often suits panic and phobias, where arguing with the fear rarely works.

Nine of our Newcastle practitioners offer ACT. Six work with panic attacks, six with phobias and five with sleep problems, which is a good indication of where it gets used at this clinic.

Four also work with maternal mental health, and two with chronic pain, where the aim is usually a fuller life alongside a condition rather than the end of it. Appointments are at Dobson House or online.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) works on memories that still feel raw long after the event, using eye movements or taps to help the brain file them as something that is over. NICE recommends it for PTSD.

Five practitioners at our Gosforth clinic are EMDR-trained. All five work with post-traumatic stress, three with the effects of abuse and four with maternal mental health, including birth trauma.

Two also work with dissociative difficulties, which is a smaller specialism and worth asking about directly if it applies. Appointments are in person at Dobson House, where there is parking on site, or online.

Child and adolescent psychology covers the worries, behaviour and development of anyone under eighteen, including understanding how ADHD or autism shapes a young person's day at home and at school.

Five of our Newcastle practitioners work with children and young people, and all five work with ADHD. Four work with autism. If you are somewhere in the middle of a neurodevelopmental question, diagnosed or waiting, this is the strongest cover we have anywhere.

What the sessions look like depends on age, and the first conversation is with a parent so you can explain what has been happening before your child is involved at all.

CAT combines ideas from cognitive and analytic therapy to name the patterns that keep repeating in your relationships, then works on changing them.

Five practitioners at our Newcastle clinic are CAT-trained, more than at any other Select Psychology location. Four of the five work with personality difficulties and four with low self-esteem, which is a fair picture of what it is used for here.

The number of sessions is set at the start, so there is a defined end point from the first appointment.

CFT works on the harsh inner voice that often sits underneath anxiety and low mood, using practical exercises to calm the part of the mind that is always on alert for threat.

CFT is offered by five of the Newcastle team. Three work with assertiveness, three with bereavement and three with grief, alongside low self-esteem, which four of the five cover.

It is often used here in combination with CBT rather than on its own, and the Pathway Team will suggest which order makes more sense once they know what you are dealing with.

Trauma-focused CBT is a version of CBT adapted for the after-effects of trauma. It helps you process what happened and ease symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares and avoiding reminders.

Dr Annelise Rodger, Dr Badri Bechlem and Dr Elysia Walker offer it at our Gosforth clinic, for adults as well as children and young people. All three work with post-traumatic stress, and two also work with ADHD and autism, which matters if trauma sits alongside a neurodevelopmental difference.

Sessions run at Dobson House or online, at a pace you set.

DBT grew out of CBT for people whose emotions run very high. It balances accepting how things are right now with steady work on changing them.

Dr Barbara Medea, Dr Clark Davison and Dr Elysia Walker offer DBT at Newcastle, which is where we have the most DBT cover of any clinic. Dr Davison also works with personality and dissociative difficulties, Dr Medea with anger and panic, and Dr Walker with eating difficulties and attachment.

MBCT teaches you to notice the early pull of a low mood before it takes hold, through a mix of meditation practice and cognitive therapy.

Dr Barbara Medea and Dr Clark Davison offer MBCT at our Gosforth clinic. Both also work with sleep problems, Dr Medea with chronic pain and Dr Davison with dementia.

It usually follows other work rather than starting things off, so it often comes up at the end of a course of CBT rather than at the first call.

Relationship counselling gives couples a neutral space to talk about the things that turn into arguments at home, with a practitioner who is on neither side.

Sarah Faulkner offers relationship counselling at Newcastle, for couples coming together and for people working on a relationship alone. She also works with assertiveness, self-esteem and grief and loss.

You do not both have to be ready for it to be worth a first conversation.

Rather than teaching techniques, psychodynamic therapy uses the relationship with your therapist to understand why certain feelings and patterns keep coming back.

Dr Annelise Rodger and Dr Hannah Makarski offer psychodynamic therapy at our Gosforth clinic. Dr Makarski also works with eating difficulties, bereavement and the effects of abuse, and Dr Rodger with ADHD, bipolar disorder and chronic pain.

It runs longer than the structured approaches and has no agreed end point, which is worth weighing up on the first call.