herapy can be likened to peeling away onion layers to reach the things that are affecting people negatively.

Through CRM the person is supported to peel these layers away and are so helped to understand the way they react in situations.

In comparing CRM with therapies like cognitive therapy, the challenge is that people can be asked to talk about their fears in great detail.   Some people may have to repeat their story over and over so that they can build resilience with dealing with the fear.   For many people this is too much to deal with.

With me, there’s no need to talk about what happened. A person will be given skills to give them strength to face the painful emotions they’ve kept inside. Encouragement will be given for the person to focus on the physical sensations arising in their bodies and deal with feelings such as chest-crushing sadness, a hot flash of anger, stomach cramps, palpitations or feeling like one’s heart is frozen in ice. With my support you can face such feelings fully, if only for a short time, and finally let go of your buried anger, terror or shame.

I am a systemic family therapist and an integrative psychotherapist with over 20 years experience. I have a full time private practice in east London (zone 1 & 2). I work with adolescents and adult individuals as well as couples & families providing short & long term therapy.

Please feel free to email me: CiaraPsychotherapy@gmail.com

My practice areas include:

Relational issues

• Parent-child conflict
• Communication difficulties and conflict resolution
• Attachment repair
• Relationship break-up
• Bereavement (incl: companion animal)

Personal growth & development

• Performance Enhancement Issues
• Self esteem & confidence building
• Assertiveness
• Emotional regulation; anxiety, depression, panic
• Ego states

Trauma issues

• Abuse (sexual, physical, emotional, DV)
• Abortion, miscarriage & infertility
• Complicated grief
• Bullying
• PTSD | Dissociation
• Phobias & fears (incl; Medical / Dental Procedures)

My practice is informed by these approaches:

CRM (Comprehensive Resource Model)

Systemic Psychotherapy (including Internal Family Systems)

Integrative Psychotherapy | CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) trauma therapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy