Providing Effective Psychotherapy
Flourish Psychological Services provides a range of psychological services to individual adult clients, as well as corporate clients and mental health professionals.
Our individual treatments are offered face to face, online or via the telephone for your convenience. Treatments include; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. The type of therapy offered will depend on your individual needs, the issue(s) brought to therapy and the evidence-based treatment for this.
Sessions are offered online and from a convenient venue a short distance from Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire. The clinic setting is ideally located and easily accessible from North Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Mansfield, Gainsborough, Grantham, Retford, Worksop and surrounds. The clinic venue has on site, free parking. Appointments can be available outside of office hours for your convenience.
Dr Toft has extensive experience of working with adults with issues including, but not limited to: anxiety, insomnia, depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic histories including childhood abuse and domestic violence, bereavement and loss, relationship difficulties.
We provide a comprehensive range of services to corporate clients, to support staff and to minimise stress-related absence and illness. Our services include; bespoke mental health awareness workshops, individual psychological therapy for employees, organisational mental health awareness, support following work-related trauma or critical incidents, etc.
There are two strands to the services for mental health professionals; supervision for clinicians and mentoring or consultation for the development of private practice.
To make a booking please call 07368 211325 or visit our Contact Page
Individual Therapy
Here at Flourish, we offer 1:1 psychological (or talking therapy) to adults, either face to face from our clinic in the centre of Newark-on-Trent, or alternatively via telephone, or using a number of online platforms including Zoom, Whatsapp, FaceTime, Skype, etc.
Corporate Services
Mental health problems affect 1 in 6 British workers each year and mental health difficulties are the leading cause of absence from work. We recognise that for each of our corporate clients, looking after their employees wellbeing is a vital part of their business success and as such we provide a wide range of services to corporate clients.
Mental Health Professionals
Being able to bounce ideas off someone who has been there and done it, is a great way of developing our own expertise, whether this is clinically, or moving into private practice. Sarah has a long history of providing clinical supervision to qualified and trainee mental health professionals and finds this an immensely enjoyable part of her role.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach, used to address a number of psychological issues, including depression and anxiety; phobias and performance anxiety, but is perhaps best known for its application in trauma/PTSD.
When someone experiences a traumatic or distressing event, psychological difficulties can occur if the event overwhelms our usual ability to cope and it is unable to be ‘processed’ or ‘filed’ in the person’s memory in the normal manner. This means that when the event is recalled, or something triggers a reminder, the person can feel they are re-living all of the feelings, tastes, smells, sounds, etc.,…
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is perhaps one of the most well-known and well-researched of the psychological treatments and can be used with a wide range of conditions, including; depression, anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder, stress, phobias, etc.
CBT combines cognitive therapy, that is, how you think, with behavioural therapy, how you act or behave. A central feature of CBT is the idea that a person’s behaviour or response in a situation is determined by their interpretation of it and that how someone feels is determined by their thoughts, beliefs and actions. CBT presumes that our thoughts, feelings and behaviour are linked.
In CBT the meaning taken…
