About this service

Are you or someone you love or care for struggling with debilitating anxiety or struggling to overcome past challenges or life events? Our Occupational Therapists, Louisa and Chris, are highly skilled in supporting those ready to take control of their emotional and mental wellbeing and delve deeper into the root cause of their difficulties, to effectively manage and overcome them. They are also able to screen for conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder and provide a working diagnosis where helpful.

We truly appreciate the importance of trauma informed care and pride ourselves in providing a safe, healing sanctuary for you to explore your emotional and mental health difficulties within. Our ultimate aim is to allow you to step forward with an increased sense of self-belief, peace and positivity.

Investment: £85 per 60 minute session

Our approach

We take a holistic approach to the treatment of anxiety and trauma, integrating the latest evidence-based techniques and compassionate, clinical care to help you achieve optimum outcomes. This may include:

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): To help you identify and challenge negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety and trauma symptoms.
2. Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR): A psychotherapy that focuses on processing traumatic memories to reduce their emotional impact.
3. Trauma-Informed Care: Our therapists are trained in trauma-informed care and value establishing a sense of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration and empowerment throughout the therapeutic process.

EMDR Explained

What to expect

Within your first session we will conduct a thorough assessment to better understand your unique challenges, priorities and goals. Through a process of occupational formulation we will consider various facets contributing towards your current difficulties, extending beyonding the psychological and including neurological, physiological and sensory domains.  

We’ll then recommend an intervention plan to deliver within upcoming sessions, collaborating with you throughout to ensure this appropriately addresses your needs and preferences.

Therapy sessions provide a non-judgement, confidential container for you to explore your thoughts and feelings within, with clients often describing these as feeling like a “safe” and “healing sanctuary”. We believe that knowledge is power and strive to work with you to help you understand your triggers, the reasons for these and ways you can work with your mind, body and spiritual self for optimum wellbeing.

We will also support you to up-skill where helpful to increase your resilience and enable you to exit therapy with an increased sense of confidence, capability and self-belief. We are here to offer guidance, support and encouragement every step of the way during your recovery journey.

Benefits of Therapy

• Reduce symptoms of anxiety, including excessive worry, avoidance and panic attacks
• Enables healing from inadequately processed traumatic experiences
• Increased self-esteem, self-worth, self-empowerment and self-confidence.
• Increased skills in managing conflict, dis-ease and difficult emotions.
• Strengthens assertiveness, interaction and communication skills.
• Achieves a greater sense of resilience and well-being

Take the first step

At Cumbria Wellbeing Hub, we believe that everyone deserves to live a life free from the burden of anxiety and trauma. Please reach out for more information about treatment options and our approach to supporting those with anxiety and trauma.