Compassionate CBT and EMDR for anxiety and mood disorders in Athlone, midlands, and online.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Lisa Larkin
Compassionate CBT and EMDR for anxiety and mood disorders in Athlone, midlands, and online.
What is CBT?
Cognitive behavioural therapy is an evidence based psychological therapy, where problems are formulated through understanding the impact of unhelpful thought patterns and behavioural patterns on how we feel.
CBT helps people to learn coping strategies to manage unhelpful patterns and the associated emotional distress.
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is an evidence based psychological therapy specifically for trauma,
About My Practice
Lisa Larkin - Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
As an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, I specialise in providing effective, evidence based treatment for a wide variety of mental health conditions. I work effectively with OCD, Social Anxiety disorder, GAD, Health Anxiety, Panic disorder, Depression, Low self-esteem, Trauma symptoms, PTSD, Complex PTSD. I have been working in mental health since 2008 initially as an occupational therapist. I completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy in 2015. I completed EMDR training (level 1-3) in 2016. I am accredited with the British and Irish Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP/IABCP). This is the gold standard accrediting body for CBT and ensures a high level of training and professional standards.
About www.midlandscbt.com
Approach
My approach is client-centered, collaborative, and evidence-based. I prioritize building a trusting and safe therapeutic relationship.
Education
I have a BSc (Hons) degree in Occupational Therapy, having graduated in 2007 from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Post Graduate Diploma Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mental health and Long term conditions from York University graduating in 2014
Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy from Sheffield Hallam University graduating in 2015.
EMDR Level 1-3 training completed in 2016.