Flourish: Health and Wellbeing in Nature, uses an eclectic approach to counselling, using a wide range of modality and approaches, to suit individual needs and goals.
Counselling Approaches &
Modalities
Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-Informed Care understands and considers the pervasive nature of trauma and promotes environments of healing and recovery rather than practices and services that may inadvertently re-traumatise.
Collaborative Care
Collaborative care is a healthcare model which aims to improve patient outcomes through inter-professional cooperation. This will commonly include a primary or tertiary care team working with allied health professionals – such as case managers, social workers, mental health professionals or medical specialists.
Holistic Counselling
One of the most unique forms of counselling available today is known as holistic counselling. This type of counselling focuses on the person and their whole life experiences. The treatment approach considers both the psychological as well as the physiological and views the body, mind and spirit as an interconnected whole.
Nature based Therapy
Nature based therapy is an emerging practice that is now being incorporated in many therapies and holistic health treatments. Nature based therapy involves immersing oneself in nature temporarily with the aim of supporting their mental health.
Strengths Based Approach
The strengths approach is a philosophy for working with people to bring about change. It is an approach to people that is primarily dependent upon positive attitudes about people’s dignity, capacities, rights, uniqueness, and commonalities.
It emphasises people’s ability to be their own agents of change by creating conditions that enable them to control and direct the processes of change they engage in (Source Innovative Resources).
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment with openness, curiosity and without judgement. Mindfulness can be practiced formally or informally. Formal practice is mindfulness meditation where you sit, usually with the eyes closed, and focus attention on one thing, usually either your breathing or the sensations experienced within your body.
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With informal practice you bring the same kind of improved attention that you might get from formal practice to everyday situations. This involves directing your full and non-judgmental attention to the activity you’re undertaking at a particular moment – it might be washing the dishes, brushing your teeth, chatting with a friend, or studying. (Source: Smiling Mind)
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments, and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. (Source: Dulwich Centre)
Expressive Therapies
This form of treatment uses creative activities to help you share and process feelings and memories that may be hard to put into words. It’s also called expressive arts therapy, art therapy, creative arts therapy, or experiential therapy.
Somatic Approach
Somatic approaches are used to engage the relationship between mind, body, brain, and behaviour. Somatically trained therapists use interventions to help calm their clients' nervous system and create more ease in the healing process.
Additional therapeutic modalities
Other therapies which may be used are Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI).