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CBT Therapy for PTSD.

PTSD/Trauma are the terms used to refer to our reactions following a serious traumatic event. 

After a serious accident or a traumatic event, our brains take time to process what has happened. For some of us witnessing a horrific crime is traumatic, a road traffic accident or even severe continuous bullying can cause us to feel the effects for a long time to come.

Often people in these situations re-experience the trauma over and over through intrusive distressing recollections of the event or events.  These are often identified as flashbacks and nightmares. Leading to the feeling of emotional numbness and a marked increase in the avoidance of the places, people or even activities that remind us of the trauma.  

Alongside these symptoms, it is often the case that people experience difficulty sleeping and concentrating.  They find themselves easily startled and often report it as feeling jumpy.  Others often report they feel agitated, irritable, and angry. 

Our team of Therapists are experienced in helping people understand the event and manage the symptoms.

Following a comprehensive assessment, each therapist is able to identify the course of treatment which often involves reliving/rewriting the event for your brain to process it effectively and reduce the emotions attached to it.

Graded exposure is used to get back to being able to revisit places, people or activities which were associated with the trauma in the first place.

Each session will have a small homework task which will help you progress in the battle against PTSD. The therapist will never give you anything to do that they wouldn’t do themselves.

We help, adults, couples, children (7+) and specialise in helping individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

We are all fully qualified CBT Psychotherapists with University Degrees in addition to our 2 years CBT Training.

We are all fully accredited members of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

Impossible Mental Health Limited is fully insured both professionally and clinically with Zurich Insurance.

Therapy can be funded privately by card payment or through your personal/employee Health Insurance policy.

We regularly work with clients of BUPA, WPA, Cigna, Aiva, Allianz, H3 and AXA.

Our sessions are one hour long and cost £90.

The fee includes additional time for your therapist to prepare before and document after your session.

CBT is a short term therapy. Treatment usually requires between 8 and 20 weekly sessions.

Deborah leads our team and is a fully qualified Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist.

Deborah is also a Specialist Nurse Practitioner in Forensic Mental Healthcare with over 20 years’ experience.

She also has specialisms in young people, neurodiversity and EMDR.

Michael works with a wide range of mental health disorders including depression, generalised anxiety, social anxiety, panic, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and specific phobias.

He appreciates the genuine distress felt by people experiencing problems with their mental health and is interested in evidenced based interventions which can bring real change and relief.

Neil has over 12 years experience working with adults in a range of therapeutic settings such as GP surgeries, NHS and the charity sector as well as here at impossible mental health.

In that time he has used both short and longer term interventions to help clients reduce symptoms for a wide range of mental health disorders and improve their experience of day to day life.

Phone on
075 3941 3244

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2 Hillsborough Business Park,

Hillsborough Gardens,

Belfast,

BT6 9DT

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