Types of therapy we offer

Explore the various approaches to therapy available at No.8

Exploring new ways of understanding yourself

Therapy can be supportive whatever you’re hoping to explore. People seek therapy for many different reasons. You may be finding a particular area of your life difficult right now, or you might be wanting to understand yourself more deeply, looking for a greater sense of meaning, balance or purpose.

Below you’ll find an overview of the different types of therapies available, and how they may be helpful. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it can give you a sense of what each approach involves. If you’d like to learn more about the therapists here at No.8 and the ways they work, you can read their individual profiles here.

Person-Centred Therapy

Person-centred therapy is a gentle, supportive approach that focuses on helping you understand yourself more deeply. Instead of giving advice or directing you, the therapist offers warmth, empathy, and acceptance so you can explore your feelings at your own pace. This creates a safe space where you can reconnect with who you are, build self-trust, and make choices that feel right for you.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps you understand the different “parts” of yourself — the protective, wounded and resourceful aspects that shape how you feel and behave.

Instead of silencing or fighting these parts, IFS encourages compassionate listening
Helps you heal inner conflict
Supports you to release emotional burdens

Reconnects you with a calmer, centred sense of Self
A gentle yet powerful approach that can support trauma recovery, anxiety, shame, relationship difficulties and patterns that feel hard to change.

Psychosynthesis

Psychosynthesis therapy helps you understand your emotions, thoughts and behaviours while also exploring your deeper potential and sense of purpose. It’s a holistic approach that works with both the challenges you’re facing now and the parts of you that are ready to grow. By combining practical psychological tools with a compassionate, explorative style, psychosynthesis can support healing, self-awareness and a clearer connection to who you truly are.

Formative Psychology

Formative Psychology is a body-based approach that helps you understand how stress, emotions and past experiences shape your physical and emotional patterns. By learning how your body holds tension, reacts to challenges and expresses old habits, you can gradually reshape these patterns and create more choice, calm and resilience. This gentle, experiential method supports you in developing a stronger sense of self, deeper emotional regulation and healthier ways of responding to life’s pressures.

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy is a humanistic and experiential approach that supports you to become more aware of what is happening for you in the present moment — in your thoughts, feelings, body, and relationships. By gently paying attention to your experience as it unfolds, Gestalt therapy can help you feel more connected to yourself, make sense of difficult emotions, and notice patterns that may be affecting your wellbeing. The therapeutic relationship is central to this work, offering a warm, collaborative space where you can explore what matters to you at your own pace and discover new ways of responding to life’s challenges.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy helps you explore the deeper, often unconscious patterns that shape how you feel, behave and relate to others. By looking at your past experiences and how they influence the present, this approach can bring clarity, emotional relief and long-term change. If you’re struggling with repeating patterns, relationship difficulties or feelings you can’t easily explain, psychodynamic counselling offers a safe, reflective space to understand yourself more fully and move forward with greater confidence.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach that helps you understand how your thoughts, feelings and behaviours influence one another. By learning practical tools and new ways of thinking, CBT can reduce anxiety, low mood and unhelpful patterns that feel hard to break. It’s a structured, goal-focused therapy that supports you to make meaningful changes in your day-to-day life — helping you feel more confident, balanced and in control.

Transactional Analysis (TA)

Transactional Analysis (TA) helps you understand the patterns behind your thoughts, feelings and behaviours — especially how you relate to others. By exploring the roles you take on in relationships and the beliefs formed earlier in life, TA can help you break repeating cycles, communicate more clearly and build healthier boundaries. This approach is particularly helpful if you struggle with relationship patterns, people-pleasing, conflict, emotional triggers or feeling stuck in unhelpful roles.

Integrative Therapy

Integrative therapy brings together a range of therapeutic approaches — such as psychodynamic therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Gestalt, Psychosynthesis, Transactional Analysis (TA), Formative Psychology and Attachment-Informed EMDR — to suit your unique needs. Instead of following one fixed method, your therapist adapts the way they work so you receive the right support at the right time. This flexible and personalised approach can help with anxiety, low mood, trauma, relationship patterns, self-esteem, stress and feeling “stuck.” Integrative therapy allows you to explore your inner world while learning practical tools for everyday life.

Attachment-Informed EMDR

Attachment-informed EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), is a gentle, relationship-focused form of therapy that helps people heal from difficult early experiences and relationship wounds. It recognises that many problems in adulthood—such as anxiety, low self-esteem, or feeling unsafe with others—come from times when our emotional needs weren’t met as children. This approach builds strong coping skills first, helps you feel safe and supported, and then gradually works through painful memories or feelings at a pace that feels right for you. The goal is to help you feel more secure, confident, and connected in your relationships and daily life.