Treatment
Treatment is time limited and agreed upon with the client during the first consultation. All sessions cost €80 for a 45 minute consultation. Following the initial assessment appointment, additional sessions are agreed upon and arranged. Cancellation or rescheduling must occur 24 hours prior to a booked appointment. If less than 24 hours notice is given then a cancellation fee of €20 will be applied.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
How does CBT work?
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CBT is a talking therapy based on scientific methods. After medication it is the most effective treatment for reducing the symptoms of almost all mental health problems, especially anxiety and depression.
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CBT can help you to stop negative cycles of thoughts, behaviour and emotions by helping you to notice what is making you feel anxious, unhappy or frightened and helping you to manage these factors. By helping you to work out what to change to improve your mood, CBT can allow you to take control of your mental health.
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What conditions are treated with CBT?
It can tackle a range of problems including depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress and schizophrenia. The therapy takes place in a series of clearly structured sessions with a therapist. Unlike most traditional talking therapies, CBT sessions focus on current problems and practical solutions rather than problems from your past.
Treatment is usually short-term and for a set length of time.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
What is EMDR
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.
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EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. If you cut your hand, your body works to heal the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.
If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes
Psychotherapy
My Psychotherapy is based upon my experience of working in a multidisiplinary team. My psychotherapy subsequently encompasses many different aspects deemed to be important in the holistic mental health treatment of children and young people. However this also transfers to the treatment of adults as I use a developmental model that encompasses the life stages from cot to tombstone.
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My experience consists of 25 years working in psychiatry, with 15 years based within Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (CAMHS). I have a Masters Degree in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and I am a trained EMDR Therapist (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
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I work with many different presentations, including Anxiety, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders, Relationship difficulties, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) Oppositional Defiant Symptoms, Behavioural Problems, Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Peer Relationship Difficulties plus many more.
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I am registered with An Bord Altrainas and am an accredited member of APCP. (Association of Professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists).
As such I am obliged to achieve their professional standards. Please click on the links below if you wish further details.
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https://www.nmbi.ie/Standards-Guidance/Code
http://www.apcp.ie/code-of-ethics/
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Setting/Location
We are located between Slane and Collon, in Co Louth, a rural and tranquil landscape, close to the picturesque Boyne Valley.
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Barry Searle Therapies
near Ballymacan, Co. Meath
Please see Google maps below:
Directions:
Travelling from Slane. Take N2 north towards Collon for about 5km. Take 1st left (L5604) to Grangegeeth Cross. Turn right at Grangegeeth Inn up hill. Take next left at crossroads at top of hill. We are 3rd house on right.
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