CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns. It is based on several core principles, for example on that psychological problems are partly caused by faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking, on learned patterns of unhelpful behaviour, and that people suffering from psychological problems can learn better ways of coping with them. CBT can thereby relieve your symptoms and help you become more effective in your life. It incorporates both efforts to change thinking patterns and efforts to change behavioural patterns. CBT is one of the most effective and evidence-based treatments for a wide range of disorders and troublesome behaviours.

Mindfulness aims to help you maintain a moment-by-moment awareness of your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. It is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you’re sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment.

The aims of DBT is for you to gain an inderstand and accept your difficult feelings, learn skills to manage them so you become able to make positive changes in your life. This therapy is originally based on CBT, but it’s specially adapted for people who feel emotions very intensely. ‘Dialectical’ means trying to understand how two things that seem opposite could both be true. For example, accepting yourself and changing your behaviour might feel contradictory. But DBT teaches that it’s possible for you to achieve both these goals together. It mainly focuses on mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation. 

During couples counselling, you and your partner will meet with a specialist to talk through and explore the problems you’re both facing. The therapist will help you both to open up, highlighting the strengths in your relationship alongside what might be causing you distress.

By emphasising acceptance, ACT helps you deal and change negative thoughts, feelings, symptoms, or circumstances. It also encourages increased commitment to healthy, constructive activities that uphold your values or goals. ACT does this by helping you follow six core principles; cognitive defusion (noticing thoughts rather than getting caught up or buying into it), acceptance, contact and connection with the present moment, the Observing Self (watching, observing and witnessing the physical- and thinking self), clarifying your values, and committed action (implementing certain behaviours that increases the chase of you reaching your goals).