At our practice, we believe in providing compassionate and tailored support to individuals and groups alike. Here's a glimpse of the people we work with:
Young Adults: We offer a safe and supportive environment for adolescents and young adults navigating the challenges of growing up and finding their place in the world.
Adults: From young professionals to seasoned individuals, we provide psychological support and therapy services to adults of all ages facing various life transitions and mental health concerns.
Couples: Our practice offers couples therapy to support partners in strengthening their relationships, enhancing communication, and resolving conflicts.
Families: We provide family therapy to help families navigate through challenges, improve relationships, and foster understanding and support among family members.
Front Line Personnel: We offer therapy services tailored to the unique stressors and challenges faced by frontline workers, including healthcare professionals, emergency responders, and law enforcement personnel.
Veterans: We provide specialised support to veterans, addressing issues related to trauma, PTSD, adjustment to civilian life, and navigating the complexities of military service.
LGBTQAI: Our practice is committed to providing a safe and affirming space for individuals across the LGBTQAI spectrum, offering support for issues related to identity, relationships, and mental health.
Athletes: We offer therapy and mental performance coaching to athletes striving to optimise their performance, manage pressure, and navigate the demands of competitive sports.
Company Directors and Senior Staff: We provide executive coaching and psychological services to support professionals in leadership roles, addressing workplace challenges, career transitions, and personal development.
Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals: We collaborate with psychologists and mental health professionals, offering consultation services, supervision, and support for professional development.
Professionals: We offer counseling and support services to professionals in various fields, including solicitors, accountants, and other high-stress professions, addressing burnout, work-life balance, and career satisfaction.
Groups: We facilitate group therapy sessions and support groups on various topics, providing a supportive community and opportunities for connection and growth.
At HPS, we are committed to providing confidential, non-judgmental, and personalised support to individuals and groups from all walks of life. Whatever your background or concerns may be, we are here to help you on your journey toward healing and personal growth.
At Harmonia Psychology Solutions, we offer support for a wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, grief, eating disorders, depression, stress, PTSD, perfectionism, sleep disturbances, and concentration difficulties.
Anxiety and Related Difficulties: Anxiety can manifest in various forms, from generalised anxiety disorder to specific phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and panic attacks.We specialise in helping individuals understand and manage their anxiety symptoms through evidence-based interventions tailored to their unique needs.
Grief: Losing a loved one or experiencing a significant life change can trigger feelings of grief and loss. Our compassionate therapists provide support and guidance to individuals navigating the grieving process, helping them find meaning and healing in their journey.
Eating Difficulties: Eating disorders, disordered eating patterns, and body image concerns can significantly impact an individual's physical and emotional well-being. We offer personalised treatment plans to address the underlying factors contributing to eating difficulties and promote a healthy relationship with food and body image.
Depression: Depression can affect every aspect of a person's life, leading to feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and fatigue. Our psychologists utilise evidence-based approaches to help individuals manage their depressive symptoms, regain a sense of purpose, and experience greater emotional well-being.
Stress, Including Work-Related Stress: Whether it's due to work, relationships, or life transitions, stress can take a toll on mental health. Our therapists work collaboratively with clients to identify sources of stress, develop coping skills, and foster resilience in the face of life's challenges.
PTSD, Including Complex Trauma: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex trauma can result from experiences of trauma and adversity. We offer specialised treatment approaches to help individuals process traumatic memories, reduce distressing symptoms, and reclaim a sense of safety and empowerment.
Maladaptive Attachment Styles: We specialise in helping individuals explore and understand their attachment patterns, fostering healthier relationships and emotional connections.
Assertiveness: We offer guidance and skill-building techniques to empower individuals to express their needs, set boundaries, and communicate effectively in various social and professional contexts.
Perfectionism: Perfectionism can be a double-edged sword, driving individuals to excel while also causing undue stress and self-criticism. We can help you explore the underlying beliefs driving perfectionism. We can help you develop healthier patterns of self-acceptance and resilience promoting self-compassion, and cultivating realistic standards to enhance well-being and productivity.
Sleep and Concentration Difficulties: Sleep disturbances and difficulties with concentration can significantly impact daily functioning and overall well-being. We offer strategies to improve sleep hygiene, manage racing thoughts, and enhance focus and attention.
Cognition including attention, memory, and executive functioning: We can help you identify, improve and/or adapt to cognitive difficlties by assessing and addressing difficulties related to attention, memory, and executive functioning. We offer personalised interventions to improve cognitive skills, enhance academic or professional performance, and support daily functioning.
In the realm of mental health and emotional well-being, various therapeutic approaches offer pathways to healing and self-discovery. Each method holds unique principles and techniques aimed at fostering personal growth and overcoming psychological challenges.
A blended approach in psychology, drawing from various perspectives like cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and psychodynamic, can offer a comprehensive understanding of human behavior and mental health.
By integrating techniques from different schools of thought, we can tailor treatment plans to suit your needs, fostering holistic well-being and personal growth.
Let's embark on a journey through some of these transformative modalities!
Understanding: Attachment theory explores the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, particularly the bond between caregivers and children. It posits that early attachment experiences shape individuals' internal working models of self and others.
Application: We use attachment theory to explore clients' relational patterns and their impact on current functioning. By fostering a secure therapeutic alliance, individuals can heal attachment wounds and develop healthier relational dynamics.
Understanding: The most commonly known of these approaches is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT. CBT operates on the principle that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected. It focuses on identifying and challenging negative thought patterns and replacing them with healthier, more adaptive ones.
Application: Through structured sessions, individuals learn to recognise distorted thinking patterns and develop skills to reframe them. Techniques such as cognitive restructuring and behavioral experiments empower individuals to change unhelpful behavious and manage emotions effectively.
Understanding: Rooted in ancient meditation practices, mindfulness emphasises present-moment awareness without judgment. It involves paying attention to thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment.
Application: Mindfulness practices, such as meditation and breathing exercises, cultivate a state of heightened awareness and acceptance. By practicing mindfulness, individuals develop resilience to stress, enhance self-awareness, and cultivate a sense of inner peace.
Understanding: Acceptance approaches encourage individuals to accept their thoughts and feelings rather than suppress or avoid them. It emphasises values clarification and committed action toward living a meaningful life.
Compassionate approaches center on cultivating self-compassion and compassion for others. It acknowledges the role of the compassionate mind in healing emotional wounds and fostering resilience.
Application: Through mindfulness techniques and experiential exercises, individuals learn to make room for uncomfortable emotions and thoughts. Acceptance helps individuals clarify their values and take steps aligned with those values, even in the presence of discomfort.
Developing a kind and nurturing inner dialogue is at the heart of Compassionate approaches. Techniques such as compassionate imagery and self-soothing exercises help individuals build emotional resilience and cultivate a sense of interconnectedness with others.
Understanding: EMDR is an evidence-based therapy primarily used to treat trauma-related disorders. EMDR operates on the principle that traumatic experiences can become "stuck" in the brain, leading to ongoing distress and maladaptive coping mechanisms. By engaging in bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, tapping, or auditory tones, EMDR helps unlock these stuck memories and facilitates their adaptive processing.
Application: During EMDR sessions, individuals are guided through the process of recalling traumatic memories while simultaneously engaging in bilateral stimulation. Subtle shifts in thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations are noticed. This process helps desensitise emotional reactivity and facilitates the integration of traumatic memories into a healthier narrative.
Understanding: Parts work also know as internal family work views the mind as consisting of various internal parts or subpersonalities, each with its own unique characteristics and motivations. It emphasises understanding and harmonising these parts to achieve inner balance.
Application: Through guided visualization and dialogue, individuals identify and communicate with different parts of themselves. By cultivating self-awareness and compassion toward these parts, individuals integrate conflicting aspects of their psyche and achieve greater self-cohesion.
Understanding: Systemic approaches view individuals within the context of their relationships and broader social systems. It emphasises understanding the dynamics of family, social networks, and cultural influences on behavior and emotional well-being.
Application: In systemic therapy, the focus extends beyond the individual to include interactions within the family system or larger social network. We explore how patterns of communication, power dynamics, and family roles contribute to presenting issues.
Through dialogue and exploration, you can gain insights into how you behaviours and emotions are influenced by their relational context. Interventions may include reframing perspectives, restructuring communication patterns, and fostering collaborative problem-solving within the family system.
Understanding: Solution-focused approaches center on identifying and amplifying clients' strengths and resources to facilitate positive change. It shifts the focus from dwelling on problems to exploring solutions and building on existing assets.
Application: Solution-focused approaches embrace a future-oriented approach, encouraging clients to envision their desired outcomes and identify concrete steps toward achieving them. We use questioning techniques to elicit clients' goals, preferences, and resources.
By highlighting exceptions to the problem and exploring previous successes, individuals gain a sense of empowerment and agency in shaping their own narratives. Solution-focused interventions often involve setting achievable goals, implementing small changes, and celebrating progress along the way.
Understanding: Psychodynamic approaches delve into unconscious processes, childhood experiences, and relational patterns to understand present-day thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They explore the influence of early experiences on personality development and interpersonal relationships.
Application: In psychodynamic approaches, we provide a safe and reflective space for individuals to explore their inner conflicts, unresolved emotions, and unconscious motivations. Through free association, dream analysis, and exploration of transference and countertransference, individuals gain insight into underlying psychological dynamics.
We work collaboratively with individuals to uncover unconscious patterns and defense mechanisms that may be contributing to current difficulties. By fostering insight and self-awareness, psychodynamic approaches support individuals in making meaning of their experiences and creating deeper connections with themselves and others.
Understanding: Narrative approaches view individuals as the authors of their own stories, capable of rewriting their narratives to create new meanings and perspectives. It externalises problems, separating them from individuals' identities.
Application: It is collaborative with individuals to deconstruct dominant narratives and explore alternative viewpoints. Through storytelling and reauthoring exercises, individuals reclaim agency over their lives and construct empowering narratives aligned with their values and aspirations.
Understanding: Neuropsychology investigates the relationship between brain function and behavior, exploring how neurological processes influence cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. It delves into brain-behavior relationships to understand and address psychological challenges.
Application: Neuropsychological assessments utilise standardised tests and measures to evaluate cognitive functions such as attention, memory, and executive functioning. By identifying cognitive strengths and weaknesses, We can tailor interventions to target specific areas of difficulty and optimise brain functioning.
In therapy, understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of psychological issues can help individuals make sense of their experiences and develop strategies to manage symptoms. Techniques such as cognitive rehabilitation, which involves targeted exercises and strategies to improve cognitive functioning, are often integrated into treatment plans.
By incorporating neuropsychological perspectives into therapy, individuals gain insights into the intricate interplay between brain function and behavior, empowering them to harness their brain's potential for healing and growth.
In conclusion, each therapeutic approach offers a unique lens through which you can explore and address your psychological challenges. Whether navigating relational dynamics, focusing on solutions, or delving into unconscious processes, these modalities empower you to embark on a journey of self-discovery, growth, and healing. Through personalised and collaborative interventions, you can cultivate resilience, enhance well-being, and create meaningful change in your live.
Harmonia Psychology Solutions Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, Company Number 08907741
Registered address: 31 Crescent Drive North, Brighton, England, BN2 6SP