Psychotherapy

Cognitive Work

We believe that everyone could benefit from having a deeper understanding of their emotions and their nervous system. Often an important part of therapy is to spend time learning about the nervous system, how it fires up, how it calms and how better to manage it and regulate it. This type of Psychoeducation early in therapy gives the grounding to people where needed to stabilize them and equip them with enough tools to better regulate emotionally.

Psychotherapy is also used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and belief systems and bring about change.

BWRT®

BWRT stands for BrainWorking Recursive Therapy® and is a new model of psychology and psychotherapy that fits comfortably with current thinking on neuroscience. It is determinedly solution focused and is evidence based.

BWRT® is based on the natural way the brain works and uses the exact same mental processes to resolve your problems as were causing them in the first place BWRT® uses neuroscience principles to rewire unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.

Although many people don’t realise it, our brain starts to react to all sorts of things before we are even consciously aware of it. Benjamin Libet identified this as a ‘cognitive gap’ in his experiments in 1983.

Every moment of everyday our brain is receiving vast numbers of pieces of information through our senses to process. The brain then pattern matches those fragments of information to previous information to know how to proceed. This process of automatic pattern matching happens so fast that it helpfully allows you to do many things with hardly any thought, like writing your name, driving, tying shoelaces, typing, using a gaming controller for example. Your brain recognizes the scenario through pattern matching of incoming information and then initiates action through pattern matching to previous experience. It’s the same part of the brain that springs into action when you accidentally knock something and your hand flies out to catch it without the tiniest pause for thought.

Unfortunately, that very same part of the brain doesn’t know if you want it to do whatever its triggering or not, so it does it anyway, and if that’s firing up a panic attack or phobia through pattern matching to a scenario previously tagged ‘danger’, or suddenly feeling as if you’re completely out of your depth with something, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Your thinking mind doesn’t catch up until the automatic triggered reaction of panic has already begun, sweating, palpitaitons, breathing changes, overthinking.

BWRT® works with the part of the brain that learns how to do things on auto pilot, the part that fires up long before the limbic system. BWRT® makes it possible, via a simple technique, to create a new response pattern to the stimulus so that action the brain triggers is the one we want. It works with the part of the brain that is ahead of your conscious thinking.

BWRT is used to work with a huge number of issues including:

Anxiety (generalized anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, driving anxiety, health anxiety) – Fears and Phobias – OCD – PTSD – low self esteem – lack of confidence – addictions – eating disorders – depression – grief – anger management – mental performance (procrastination, fear of failure, exam nerves, imposter syndrome) – physical performance for sports

If your particular challenge is not listed here please do get in touch to see if we can help.