OUR SERVICES
At The Mind Faculty, we believe in an integrated approach to mental health care. This is based on the philosophy that mental health is influenced by a variety of interrelated factors such as life choices, environment, genetic makeup and relationships. Our treatment plans are collaborative and multidisciplinary, taking in account each individual’s journey and the stories that make up the history of their lives. We work together with our patients to ensure they are balanced physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
We offer:
Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Treatment for Eating Disorders
Corporate Training and Development
Management of Elderly Mental Health and Memory Concerns
Psychological Assessment
Our psychological assessment help you gain a full understanding of your current functioning and potential. Our evaluations are tailored to you and your particular referral question. The results can help with questions regarding school performances, learning disabilities or emotional disturbances.
It can be used to provide a profile of your development in areas such as motor skills, communication skills and socialization skills. This can be used to determine your academic readiness or whether there is a development delay such as Autism or Asperger’s Disorder. The results from your psychological assessment can be used to help you optimize your strengths and address your needs at school, work and in the community.
Individual Therapy
Work one-on-one with a trained therapist in a safe, caring and confidential environment. This can help you work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives you would like to change, better understand yourself and others, set personal goals and work toward desired change.
People seek therapy for a wide variety of reasons: from coping with challenges or traumas to dealing with anxiety and depression; or simply desiring personal growth and greater self-knowledge.
Types of therapy:
Cognitive and behavioural therapy
This is based on the way you think and/ or behavior. These therapies recognize that it is possible to change our thoughts or behaviors to overcome specific problems. This includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive analytic therapy.
Psychoanalytical and psychodynamic therapies
This is based on your unconscious thoughts and perceptions that may have developed throughout your childhood, and how these affect your current behavior and thoughts. This includes Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic therapy.
Humanistic therapies
This focuses on self-development growth and responsibilities. This helps you recognise your strengths, creativity and choice in the ‘here and now’. This includes Existential therapy and Gestalt therapy.
Interpersonal therapy
This focuses on the way our relationships affect us and also how other mental health difficulties can affect our relationships.
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
This therapy modality can alter the way that traumatic memories are stored within the brain so that they are easier to manage and cause less distress. It can also be used to treat depression, performance anxiety, phobias and fears, anxiety and low self-esteem.
Couples Counselling
Whether you are going through a crisis or you simply want to strengthen your relations, couples counseling is a great way to move forward.
It can help you to recognise and resolve conflicts in your relationships.This includes issues such as:
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Communication problems
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Different goals and values
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Life changes
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Lack of trust
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Sexual difficulties
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Conflicts about child rearing or blended families
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Substance abuse
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Financial problems
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Work-related stress
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Anger
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Infidelity
Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Childhood and adolescence is a period of change. Therapy can help a child work through challenging, confusing and painful feelings in a safe setting. It also provides children with tools for going forward by teaching them to talk about their feelings and build emotional resilience.
It can also help to identify learning difficulties and developmental issues.
Play therapy
Play therapy is based on the fact that children naturally express themselves though play. With play therapy, the children enters a thereputic relationship where they can safely express, explore and make sense of their difficult and sometimes painful life experiences The therapy helps to build on their inner resources and strengths, which can bring around growth, development and healing in the child.
This therapy is appropriate for children aged 3 - 11 years old who have experiences or exhibit the following: aggressive behaviours, anxiety, attachment issues, childhood issues, chronic illness, grief and loss, sleeping issues, grief and loss, and trauma. It can also be useful for children with ADD & ADHD, Autism, speech problems and developmental delays.
Treatment for Addiction
Addiction is an illness that requires medical and psychological treatment. It changes the physical make up of our body, requiring as much care and attention as someone with diabetes or hypertension.
We treat you rather than your addiction. Our approach is based on the biopsychosocial model.
'Bio' refers to medication. The availability of anti-craving medication for substances like alcohol, amphetamines/methamphetamines and heroine help the you maintain the duration of abstinence much longer. This makes your treatment more successful.
'Psycho' refers to psychotherapy and counselling aspect. We provide you with support and guidance, helping you to redefine yourself – not as an addict but someone who can successful cross the hurdle of cravings and withdrawals.
'Social' means treating the patient’s social stressors. We will work with you to restore health to your relationships with your family and loved ones.
Treatment for Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are a mental illness that also has a major impact on your physical health.
Our team works together to treat the physical, psychological and nutritional aspects of an eating disorder. We will help you redefine your relationship with your body and food.
Mindfulness-based Therapy
Mindfulness aims to reconnect us with ourselves by paying attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them. If you have a mental health concern, you could benefit from therapy that incorporates mindfulness such as mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Mindfulness trains participants to develop and draw on their own inner resources to bring about focus, greater balance, coping strategies, stability and wellbeing. MBCT is offered as a complement to medical and psychological treatments, as well as an alternative to antidepressant medication in the prevention of relapse of depression, as well as for overall health enhancement, resiliency and self care.
Art Therapy
Explore your thoughts and emotions through creative expression. This can be useful if you find it difficult to verbalize your feelings. Art therapy tends to look at issues in a different way and help participants to tap into emotions have been previously buried or ignored. It can benefit:
Clients with mental health problems. Art therapy is recommend by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as a treatment for schizophrenia and related conditions.
Clients who have experienced trauma. This can offer you a sense of choice and control by building a narrative about the trauma.
Clients with learning difficulties or on the autistic spectrum. Art as therayp can be helpful to those who may not be able to verbalise clearly what they feel.
Clients with dementia. Tapping into the creative part of the brain helps to lower stress levels and restore a sense of personal identity.
Clients with chronic/terminal illness. It can help patients to regain a sense of control, freedom and self-expression.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis helps you to access your subconscious mind. It is key to unleash your potential, change any unwanted habits and behaviours, as well as finding solutions to our problems and concerns.
Hypnotherapy can also be used to enhance sports performance, and ease the symptoms of physical disorders such as psoriasis and ulcers. It can also help with acute and chronic pain.
Sleep Talk
Sleep Talk for Children is one of the best gifts that any parent can give to their child.The Goulding SleepTalk™ process is easy to learn. It takes parents only a few minutes daily at bedtime, and it can’t be “done wrong”. This method is for people who are looking for a simple, non-intrusive self-esteem and behaviour change process for their children.
The process is about developing a child's emotional resilience, which protects against negative suggestions.
It can help with issues such as separation anxiety, sibling rivalry, bed wetting, nail biting, social phobia, bad eating habits, night mares, sleep disturbances, behavior issues, ADHD, increasing school performance/ sports performance etc.
Hypnoband™
The Hypnoband procedure has been proven to be effective in assisting people to lose weight and gain a healthier and fitter body. It creates a state of mind where you believe you have a surgical Gastric Band fitted without having to go through surgery and the painful side effects. You will eat smaller portions and feel fuller.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy can help you participate in the things you want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. This can help: children with disabilities participate fully in school and social situations; people recovering from injury to regain skills; andolder adults experiencing physical and cognitive changes (e.g., recovering from a stroke or suffering dementia).
This can include a comprehensive evaluation of the client's home and other environments, recommendation for adaptive equipment and training in its use, as well as guidance and education for the family members and caregivers.
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy provides life-changing treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing.
It supports premature babies and infants with conditions such as cerebral palsy, cleft palate and Down syndrome from very early in life who have difficulties with drinking, swallowing and early play and communication skills.
It can also help children with primary speech, language and communication difficulties as well as other conditions like learning difficulties and hearing problems.
Speech therapy also supports adults who have development conditions such as learning disabilities, autism and Down syndrome. It also helps adults with communication and swallowing difficulties as a result of medical conditions such as stroke, head and neck cancer, Parkinson’s disease and dementia.
Corporate Training
Mental and emotional health is an integral part of human capital development. It is important to provide a positive organizational culture that is conducive to good mental health. Businesses that invest in mental health are more productive, innovative and more likely to recruit the brightest people.
We understand that every business and organization is different and pre-packaged training programs don’t work for everyone. Our client-focused approach allows us to design training programs that are driven to meet your needs and also incorporating the values of mental and emotional health.
Our in-house training programmes, workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions are tailored to accommodate your specific requirements. Our facilitators and trainers are all practicing specialists in their specific fields and bring many years of practical experience as well as a solid educational background to the table.
Sports Psychology
We develop a specific program tailored to your particular sport and your unique strengths and weaknesses. Our services can help athletes manage anxiety, develop relaxation techniques, and enhance leadership skills. We help you to address issues such as a lack of consistency, difficulty maintaining focus, or recovering from injury.
Sport psychology can also assist with goal setting, confidence, and visualizing yourself being successful, in an attempt to help you reach your full potential.
We also offer programs that help with team leadership and development, which focus on strengthening positive inter-player communication.
