Purple Therapy by Anthea Benjamin

SERVICES FOR ADULTS

Anthea offers robust services for adults dealing with a range of challenges in their life. Anthea provides a safe place to unpack life difficulties, make sense of past events and think together of ways of rebuilding and moving forward.

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On this page you can find out more about the psychotherapy services Anthea can offer. If you are a parent you may also want to look at the Services for Children & Families page.

For more information on services, availability and fees, complete the web contact form leaving brief details of your enquiry. Anthea aims to respond to all requests within 48 hours.

Psychotherapy Services

Psychotherapy is a process of dealing with past hurts using a range of modalities such as talking therapy, body therapy, art therapy and trauma processing to treat emotional problems and mental health issues.

I hold a holistic approach to meet each individuals’ unique needs. I have been trained in a wide range of modalities, including trauma processing tools such as EMDR, Lifespan integration and sensory motor approaches, somatic experiencing and art / creativity. I provide safe, expert therapy to help individuals with emotional, social and a range of difficulties such as depression, anxiety, sexual abuse, trauma etc.

How can psychotherapy benefit me?

As an experienced psychotherapist l offer an environment in which you can:

Express your feelings
Gain a deeper insight into the issues you face
Process past traumas
Develop healthier ways of relating
Feeling more empowered

Psychotherapy sessions are confidential. This means that you can talk about things you might not feel be able to discuss with anyone in your life with the safety of knowing you will not be judged. As your therapist, I will aim to help you find better ways to cope, bring about changes in the way you think and behave to improve your mental and emotional wellbeing.

Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT)

AIT was developed in US by Asha Clinton who based her work on the psychodynamic underpinnings provided by analytic psychology, object relations, and self-psychology; on traumatology, energy psychology and energy healing; and on teachings and practices drawn from many world religions.

It is a dynamic energy psychotherapy that may provide individuals with lasting relief from a range of trauma based psychological problems.

Starting from the premise that all upsetting events are types of trauma, and that they are housed within the body, mind and spirit, Advanced Integrative Therapy has the potential to transform the after-effects of trauma. It attends to problems caused by trauma such as disturbing emotions, negative beliefs and attitudes, dissociation, spiritual blockage, psychosomatic problems Psychotherapists who study AIT learn how to access unconscious material through ideomotor cueing (muscle testing), and how to move energy through the body’s major energy centres (chakras) to more effectively process symptoms, their cause and after-effects.

Parents as Partners Couple’s Group

The Parents as Partners programme is an intervention for couples and co-parents of young children which originated in the US, developed by Professors Phil and Carolyn Cowan along with their colleagues Professors Marsha Kline Pruett and Kyle Pruett from the University of California.

The programme is designed to improve relationships between parents and to increase children’s well‐being and success. It looks at relationships across the family, not just at parenting skills, as parents’ relationship together, parent-child relationships and family patterns across generations are all considered.

Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT)

MBT is a type of long-term psychotherapy. Mentalization is the ability to think about thinking. It helps to make sense of our thoughts, beliefs, wishes and feelings and to link these to our actions and behaviours.

Mentalization is a normal capacity that we all use in everyday life. It underpins all human relationships. However, some people find it more difficult to mentalise in certain situations than others.

MBT aims to improve a person’s capacity to mentalise. We focus on what is going on in their mind and in the minds of other people and link this to understand and alleviate problematic behaviours.

It's particularly useful for people who suffer from long-term difficulties in relationships and who experience intense emotional distress and overwhelming feelings which may result in destructive behaviours such as self-harm or aggression towards others.

It is also helpful for people who may be distrustful of other people and have difficulty in reading other people’s responses to them.

Mentalization-based treatments can be used to help children, young people and families who suffer from psychological difficulties.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy℠:
Level 1: Training in Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy℠ builds upon traditional psychotherapeutic techniques and principles, with a focus on the body as central in healing.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® draws from body-orientated psychotherapy, somatic therapies, neuroscience and cognitive approaches, as well as from the Hakomi Method. It incorporates theory and technique from psychodynamic psychotherapy and the theories of attachment and dissociation.

Anthea has completed her Sensorimotor Psychotherapy℠:Level 1: Training in Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory and is highly experienced in delivering this form of psychotherapy.

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing is a body-mind modality created by Peter Levine that works with body memory to release trauma stored in the body enabling more life force, freedom and healing.

Anthea is trained in Somatic Experiencing and is a fully qualified Somatic Experiencing Therapist. Anthea incorporates Somatic Experiencing within all her work and is passionate about working with the body.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

AEDP is a gentle but powerful effective therapy in making relationally changes that creates shifts in the neuroplasticity of people’s brains leading to more meaningful relationship with others and self. Through the undoing of aloneness with the use of in-depth processing of difficult emotional and relational experiences, clients experience breakthroughs. This leads to the emergence of new and healing experiences for the clients, resources, resilience, and a renewed zest for life.

Anthea is trained to Level 2 in AEDP Therapy and incorporates this approach within all her therapeutic work.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS is a therapeutic model that views every human being as a system which holds different parts guided by a core self. This model holds the multiple self as healthy and works towards integration of a person system. Ifs works with the premise that there is no bad part of self and works to access the undamaged compassionate self to create more understanding, acceptance, healing and connectedness.

Anthea is trained to Level 2 in IFS Therapy and incorporates this approach within all her therapeutic work.

Neuro affective Touch

NeuroAffective Touch® is a professional somatic training that integrates psychotherapy and bodywork using touch as a bridge to support body-mind integration. Neuro affective touch recognises that many people operate with a mind disconnect from their body and holds supports the body and mind reconnection. NeuroAffective Touch® (NATouch™) addresses emotional, relational, and developmental deficits that cannot be reached by verbal means alone.

Anthea is a foundation graduate working toward full certification and incorporates this approach within all her therapeutic work.

Life Coach Services

The role of a Life Coach is to help others to bridge the gap between where they currently are to where they would like to be. A Life Coach achieves this by supporting and encouraging others to fulfil their potential, achieve their personal goals and make the most of their lives. Some of the most popular coaching packages Anthea can deliver are listed below.

Radical Forgiveness:
A revolutionary 5 stage process to find peace, love and acceptance

Radical Forgiveness is a simple and elegant process for quickly dissolving the residual pain attached to emotion-related problems. It has helped thousands of people release toxic pain from old emotional wounds, free themselves from harmful behaviour patterns and experience deeper levels of self-acceptance than they’ve ever known before.

Anthea is a fully trained and certified Radical Forgiveness Coach and can begin to help you bring joy back into your life.

Conscious Uncoupling:

5 Step Process to Living Happy Even After

Originated by marriage and family therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas in 2011 as an online course that has helped thousands to breakup better, Conscious Uncoupling provides a blueprint for separations that are most known for their bountiful acts of kindness, big-hearted gestures of generosity and goodness, and for the genuine efforts made to do the right thing for the right reasons.

Anthea was personally mentored by Katherine Woodward Thomas and is a fully qualified Conscious Uncoupling Coach.

OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation:
Embracing the universal truth at the heart of all spiritual traditions

Anthea is an ordained interfaith minister who is trained to guide people individually or in groups to find you own journey of spirituality and connection.

She is trained to deliver ceremonies within a spiritual context for life events such as marriage, birth or funerals as well as any other rites of passage that is meaningful for individuals and groups.

If you are seeking spiritual connection and expression either within or outside traditional religions, or struggling with life issues such and need support with a spiritual dimension spiritual counselling can be a support therapeutic approach during this time.