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At Courageous Being, all our therapeutic approaches are evidence-based, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming. This means we welcome and value each individual as they are, and we strive to create a space that feels safe, warm, and genuinely caring.
We believe that every person has the capacity for growth and change. Through a collaborative and non-judgmental approach, your therapist will support you in gaining insight into your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and in developing the skills and strategies to lead a more connected and fulfilling life.
At Courageous Being, your therapist may draw from a range of therapeutic approaches, including:
Emotionally Focused Therapy – For Couples
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, is a highly effective, evidence-based approach that helps couples and individuals build stronger, more secure emotional connections.
Grounded in attachment theory, EFT helps people understand that relationship distress often stems not from incompatibility, but from disconnection and unmet needs for safety, love, and closeness. When we feel unheard or rejected, we may protest, criticise, or withdraw — creating painful cycles of distance and misunderstanding.
EFT gently slows these interactions, helping partners uncover and express the emotions underneath conflict, such as hurt, fear, or longing. As couples learn to share these deeper feelings and respond with empathy and care, new patterns of connection emerge.
Research shows EFT is one of the most successful approaches to couples therapy, helping people move from conflict and isolation toward trust, intimacy, and emotional security.
At Courageous Being, we use EFT to help you and your partner feel safer, more connected, and more confident in your relationship.
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is a compassionate, evidence-based approach developed by Dr. Sue Johnson to help individuals understand and transform their emotional patterns. Rooted in attachment theory, EFIT helps you explore how early experiences of connection and safety — or the lack of them — continue to shape how you relate to yourself and others today.
Through EFIT, you’ll learn to recognise protective patterns such as withdrawal, self-criticism, or people-pleasing, and uncover the emotions and unmet needs driving them. With the support of your therapist, you’ll begin to process past pain, strengthen emotional resilience, and build a more secure and compassionate relationship with yourself.
EFIT doesn’t focus on “fixing” you, but on helping you connect more deeply with your own emotional experience — so you can move from feeling stuck or disconnected to feeling safe, seen, and empowered.
At Courageous Being, EFIT offers a gentle path toward healing, self-understanding, and greater emotional freedom.
Schema Therapy: Understanding & healing deep emotional patterns
Schema Therapy is an evidence-based, integrative approach developed by Dr. Jeffrey Young to help people understand and change long-standing emotional patterns that often begin in childhood and continue to affect life, relationships, and wellbeing in adulthood.
Schemas are deep emotional themes or “life patterns” that shape how we see ourselves, others, and the world. They develop from early experiences — especially when important emotional needs like safety, love, acceptance, or autonomy were not fully met. While these patterns once helped us cope or feel safe, they can later become limiting or painful, keeping us stuck in cycles of self-doubt, conflict, or disconnection.
In Schema Therapy, we work together to identify these core schemas — such as abandonment, mistrust, or unrelenting standards — and the coping styles that maintain them, like people-pleasing, perfectionism, withdrawal, or over-control. By bringing awareness to these patterns, we begin to understand not only why we react the way we do, but also how to respond differently.
Schema Therapy is both deeply reflective and highly practical. It blends cognitive and behavioural tools (to understand and change unhelpful patterns), experiential work (such as imagery or chair work, to access and soothe emotional wounds), and relational healing (through a supportive, attuned therapeutic relationship).
At Courageous Being, Schema Therapy offers a structured yet compassionate pathway for healing the emotional roots of distress. Whether you’re navigating relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, or long-standing patterns that feel hard to change, Schema Therapy helps you move toward greater self-awareness, connection, and emotional freedom.
EMDR Therapy: Healing from Distressing and Traumatic Experiences
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, evidence-based therapy designed to help people heal from the emotional pain caused by difficult or traumatic life experiences. It is widely recognised as one of the most effective treatments for trauma, anxiety, and other stress-related issues.
Sometimes, when we experience something distressing or overwhelming, our brain’s natural ability to process memories becomes “stuck.” Instead of fading into the background, the memory — along with its emotions, sensations, and beliefs — remains vivid and intrusive. This can lead to ongoing symptoms such as anxiety, nightmares, low self-worth, emotional reactivity, or a sense of being “on edge.”
EMDR helps to “unstick” these memories and reprocess them in a healthier way. During an EMDR session, the therapist guides you through brief sets of bilateral stimulation — typically eye movements, tapping, or sounds — while you focus on aspects of a distressing memory. This process helps the brain reprocess the experience, allowing the emotions to settle and the memory to integrate naturally, much like how the body heals a physical wound once the blockage is removed.
EMDR therapy doesn’t require you to talk about the details of a painful event in depth, making it a gentle yet effective approach for many clients. Over time, the distress linked to the memory decreases, and more adaptive, empowering beliefs take its place — such as “I am safe now” or “I did the best I could.”
Research has shown EMDR to be highly effective for post-traumatic stress (PTSD), anxiety, phobias, panic, grief, and low self-esteem. It can also help with more subtle emotional wounds — those experiences of rejection, loss, or failure that continue to shape how we see ourselves and relate to others.
At Courageous Being, EMDR therapy is offered in a trauma-informed and emotionally safe way, always at your pace and with care for your unique story. The goal is not to erase your memories but to help you relate to them differently — with less fear, shame, or distress, and with greater calm, clarity, and confidence.
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