Our approach

CBT is the most researched and most effective talking therapy we have for anxiety, depression, and ADHD. The CBT we practise is its modern form — built for exactly the kind of fast, capable, over-thinking mind that older approaches can leave exhausted. It's also focused and time-limited: often a matter of weeks to months rather than years.

Changing your relationship with thoughts and feelings

Rather than trying to change or challenge your thoughts, we'll work on changing how you relate to them. You'll learn to recognise when you're caught up in unhelpful thinking patterns — worry, rumination, or getting hooked by anxious thoughts — and develop the ability to step back and observe these patterns without getting pulled into them.

This isn't about positive thinking or replacing negative thoughts with better ones. It's about recognising that thoughts are just thoughts — not facts or commands. When anxiety shows up with all its uncomfortable thoughts and physical sensations, you'll learn to make room for these experiences while still moving forward with what matters to you.

Building psychological flexibility

The goal isn't to eliminate anxiety or make difficult thoughts or feelings disappear. Instead, you'll develop flexibility — the ability to be present with whatever shows up (including anxiety, doubt, or discomfort) while taking action guided by what you genuinely value. It means learning to carry your passengers — difficult thoughts and feelings — along for the ride, rather than letting them dictate your direction.

What a course of therapy looks like

Therapy here is structured and collaborative. It follows a clear arc, always tailored to you:

• Getting the full picture — a thorough assessment and a shared understanding of what's keeping the problem going.

• Making sense of it — mapping your patterns together, so what felt confusing starts to make sense.

• Building skills — the active heart of the work: stepping back from unhelpful thoughts, making room for difficult feelings, and facing what you avoid at your own pace, so those thoughts and feelings gradually lose their grip.

• Reconnecting with what matters — linking the work to your values, so change is in service of the life you want.

• Making it last — preparing you to stay well, spotting early warning signs and problem-solving ahead, so the gains hold long after therapy ends.

Through our work together, you'll develop practical skills you can use long after therapy ends: recognising when you've been pulled into worry or rumination, stepping back from unhelpful thinking patterns, making space for uncomfortable feelings, and choosing actions based on your values rather than on what anxiety tells you to do. The aim is sustainable change — not a quick fix, but a fundamentally different way of relating to your own inner experience.