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GOOD THOUGHTS PSYCHOLOGY

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Drawing on narrative psychology, CBT, ACT, Jungian Psychology and Neuroscience – evidenced based methods to achieve results

Depression

We lose motivation, fail to find pleasure in the things that normally please us, feel like our options are limited, perhaps regretting past choices.

Anxiety

The knot in the stomach, the racing heart, tight chest, worry, overthinking, even panic. Anxiety is crippling, but you don’t need to stay anxious. You can overcome it.

Relationships

Romantic, family, friends, boss, colleagues – they all matter, and when they go wrong our life suffers, is it us or them?

Mental Resilience

To face all that life will throw at us, we have to be prepared. Through practice and mental training, just as the runner can train for a marathon, we can become mentally resilient and ready for anything.

Fulfillment

We all need meaning in life, a purpose to strive for. We all deserve to grow and flourish.

Mindfulness

Conquering mental struggles involves training the mind. We have tools to practice and discover our inner strength and wisdom.

Your Story

There is huge power in your story. It is yours alone and knowing it and understanding it can give you great strength and extract the wisdom from your experience.

Success

There are many ways to succeed in life, whether it is in relationships, parenting, career, business, charity. To succeed you need to get out of your own way.

Psychological Help That Works

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To create change we need to understand what it is that is creating our current experience. As Carl Jung said,

“Unless we make the unconscious, conscious, it will direct our lives and we’ll call it fate”

What did he mean ? We all collect different experiences on our path through life, maybe we receive love, positive feedback, maybe we are neglected or even abused. All of these experiences become a part of our unconscious, forming beliefs about the world, or even sub-personalities within us, which then determine how we experience the current moment. When we want to alter that current experience, we have to find what is hidden in the unconscious and then consciously change it. There are many tools and techniques that we can use to do this.

Your Psychologist

Cassian Hall GMBPsS, FACCPH, BA Hons (Ebor), Mst. (Oxon), MSc. (Stirling)

My formal education has included the Universities of York, Oxford and Stirling, but I think the real depth of learning has come through being hammered by life on the anvil of curiosity. I have visited the depths of despair, the peaks of fear and the wounds of loss and betrayal. I have also found peace, love, fatherhood and some degree of success along the way. I wouldn’t change any of it. The more I learn, the more I realise I have still to learn, but that is the beauty of life.
I draw on the wisdom of giants in my own work, from Freud, Jung and Rogers to CBT, ACT, Buddhism and the works of Iain McGilchrist. I am a people optimist, but without being naïve. I believe in the innate potential of all of us to achieve a value-driven, fulfilling and meaningful life for the benefit of all around us.