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Specialises in

• Behavioural Couples Therapy
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
• Mindfulness based CBT

• Psychotherapy
• Short Term Psychodynamic Therapy
• Trauma focused CBT

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Welcome to my profile. I am a friendly and approachable Counselling Psychologist with extensive experience working in the NHS and private practice, helping clients struggling with a wide range of difficulties, from depression, anxiety, addiction, PTSD, relationship difficulties amongst many others. I offer appts on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday daytimes.

I feel very passionate about the importance of treating each client individually, developing a good understanding of you before collaboratively working with you to help improve your mental wellbeing and/or achieve your goals. I benefit from being able to offer four main types of therapy that I can integrate flexibly according to your needs, and at any point in your therapeutic journey. I tend to keep my work time-limited to 8, 16 or 32 sessions and regularly review along the way. I work from a very relational perspective looking at past and present patterns of relating and how these contribute to mood and struggles, and I use the therapeutic relationship, mapping and letters (using Cognitive-Analytical principles) to aid this process. I integrate Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help clients to develop coping strategies and techniques to manage their anxiety/depression/addiction, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy principles to help clients wanting a better understanding and deeper resolution to their unconscious processes through exploration of their earlier experiences and relationships. I also am fully trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) which is an evidence-based approach used for many difficulties including trauma and phobias, that I regularly interweave into my work (or can use in relative isolation if appropriate).

Areas of interest

Work with ages 16+
Individuals and couples
Depressive disorders (Depression and bipolar)
Anxiety disorders (GAD, OCD, Health anxiety)
Trauma (past and recent) and PTSD
Relationship difficulties or breakdown
Addiction (specialism Gambling Addiction)
Divorce Adjustment
Chronic pain
Post Natal Depression

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Eating disorders

• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• c/o Dr Melanie Maynard
• Cotswold House Broadway Woodbury Exeter EX5 1NR
• melanie@drmelaniemaynard.com