Laura Edrop
Cognitive Behavioural Therapist in Stroud
Are you struggling with your mental health? Are you looking for help to improve your wellbeing? Then you’ve come to the right place.
I understand that sometimes it is impossible to ‘see the wood through the trees’ and making change can feel overwhelming. You might be wondering "where do I start"?
I help people to make sense of their difficulties, develop a clear plan to overcome them, and work with them to achieve their goals. I am a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT for short) and in a nutshell, CBT aims to help people recognise unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours, and make positive changes to help them feel better.
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What can I help with?
CBT can help with a wide range of difficulties including:
Anger
Anxiety and Worry
Childhood and Complex Trauma
Depression
Emotional Intensity
Long Term Health Conditions
Low Self-Esteem
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Perfectionism
Phobias
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Social Anxiety
Stress
I am a qualified CBT Therapist, fully accredited with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), which is the main accrediting body for CBT Therapists in the UK. You can check my credentials here: www.cbtregisteruk.com.
I began working in therapeutic settings in 2016, initially with children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma. I moved into also working with adults in 2019 and I currently work for NHS Talking Therapies as the clinical lead for a local service.
I can work with anyone aged 12+. Although working mainly with cognitive behavioural techniques, I practice in an integrated manner, drawing on techniques from other schools of therapy including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Person-Centred Therapy.
Training and Qualifications
BSc in Psychology achieved at University of the West of England
MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy achieved at Buckinghamshire New University
Full accreditation with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
Additional Training received at Exeter University:
Working with Long Term Health Conditions
Delivering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Supervision
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Top Up training
About Me
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy. CBT therapists believe that we can develop unhelpful thinking patterns that impact how we act and how we feel. CBT can help you to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviours in order to learn more helpful ways of thinking and responding to the challenges we face. Changing how we think and what we do, ultimately leads to feeling better and improves our quality of life.
Our past experiences can help us to understand why we think and behave in certain ways so a brief history is often taken in CBT to allow us to make sense of the problem you are facing. The therapy itself however focuses more on current challenges, than delving deeply into the past. It aims to help you improve your wellbeing by teaching you to spot the links between your thoughts, behaviours, and feelings.
Working with a CBT therapist, you will set goals for what you want to change and how you want to improve your life, and then find new ways of combatting your difficulties. A big part of the treatment is conducted outside of the sessions. You and your therapist will agree between-session tasks for you to complete to consolidate the learning and progress you have made in therapy.
About CBT
You can find more information about CBT at the following websites:
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/treatments-and-wellbeing/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-(cbt)
Contact Me
To enquire about availability and book an initial 30 minute consultation free of charge, please use the contact form below or email laura.edrop.cbt@outlook.com in the first instance.
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