Private psychology and therapy in Yarm

CBT helps you spot the patterns in how you think and react, and change the ones that are making things harder. Sessions are structured and focus on the present.

Dr Charlotte Smith, a Counselling Psychologist, offers CBT at our Yarm clinic on the first floor of 44 High Street, working with anxiety, low mood and self-esteem. People travel in from Stockton, Eaglescliffe, Ingleby Barwick and Thornaby as well as Yarm itself.

Acceptance and commitment therapy asks a different question from most approaches: not how to get rid of a feeling, but what you want to do with your life while it is there.

It is also available at Yarm. Dr Smith uses it most often where something is not going to resolve neatly, including long-term weight and health concerns, and low mood that has not moved with other approaches.

Compassion focused therapy targets shame and self-criticism directly, using exercises that help the mind feel safe rather than under threat.

It is one of the five approaches Dr Smith offers here, and it sits alongside the work with self-esteem and with the effects of abuse.

Psychosexual therapy is specialist, confidential support for sexual difficulties, and it can be done on your own or as a couple.

Dr Smith offers it at Yarm and works with sexual difficulties and with relationship problems, and often the two are tangled together. There are only a handful of appointments, so it is worth asking early.

Psychodynamic therapy is the most open of our approaches. There is no set agenda, and sessions follow whatever feels most pressing to you.

It is also offered here, with no fixed end point. It tends to suit people carrying something older, and Dr Smith works with post-traumatic stress, bereavement and the effects of abuse. There are appointments at our Teesside clinic too, so there is a second option if the timing suits better.