Services Offered

At Renewed Perspectives, I offer Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Couple Therapy for Depression. I am currently completing an Accredited Life Coaching Diploma and will be offering this very soon as my training progresses! To read more about any of these approaches, please use the click-down options below.

All sessions are attended via video, offering face to face contact without the inconvenience of travelling, parking or navigating public transport! Before your session, you will be sent a link to a video platform called Doxy; you don’t need to download anything to your device in order to join your appointment. It can be helpful to use a device with a larger screen such as a laptop or tablet, especially if you are attending the session as a couple. I also suggest having a pen and paper to hand, in case you want to make a note of anything during the session.

CBT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps people understand how their feelings are deeply influenced by their thoughts and behaviours. It offers practical tools and insights to create meaningful change, fostering a sense of empowerment in everyday life.

CBT is change focused, supporting you to work towards a goal that you will identify during your early sessions. It can be used for a range of difficulties, including Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Health Anxiety, low self-esteem, and disordered eating. It can also be helpful for other difficulties including symptoms of menopause, sleep disruption and long-term physical health conditions.

This video, which is just over 3 minutes and produced by MIND , introduces CBT: Making Sense of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

If CBT sounds like the right approach for you, our initial sessions together would be focused on providing the space and time for you to describe your difficulties in detail and identify goals that you want to work towards over the course of therapy. As the sessions continue to progress, we would regularly check-in on the goals that you identified so that you can feel confident that the sessions are heading in the direction that you want them to.

Many relationships will experience challenging times and couples may consider attending joint sessions as they navigate through these. They might have concerns about the relationship breaking down, feel distant from one another, notice that they don’t communicate as well as they did, be arguing more frequently or have a less fulfilling sexual relationship. In addition, there may also be external pressures such as work related stress, unhelpful family dynamics, physical health concerns and other major life events.

Couple Therapy for Depression focuses on addressing challenges that may be impacting each partner’s mental wellbeing, reducing symptoms of depression as well as improving communication and intimacy within the relationship. While it can be difficult at first to talk openly, the joint sessions encourage shared understanding and support, helping couples rebuild closeness and face difficulties together.

If Couple Therapy for Depression sounds like the right approach for you and your partner, an initial joint session would be arranged offering you both the opportunity to discuss the difficulties you have been facing. You would then both meet with me on a one-to-one basis before re-joining and continuing the remainder of our sessions together, focusing on the goals that you have both agreed are the key priorities for you as a couple.

Life Coaching helps you to think about the goals you want to achieve and how you can work towards them. It won’t give you advice, but instead will help you to understand the strengths that you have and how you can use those strengths in order to achieve a greater sense of fulfilment. The sessions can help to provide space and time to focus on your goals and purpose, time that you don’t always have in your busy day-to-day life.

 

Life Coaching is not therapy; it does not explore your past or seek to understand the root cause of any mental health difficulties you may be experiencing currently. Many people turn to Life Coaching as an alternative to psychological therapy; equally it can also work well after therapy as you start to consider the next step in your journey to positive wellbeing and a greater sense of satisfaction.

I am working towards qualifying in 2026, but will be able to offer sessions very soon as my training progresses. If you are interested in life coaching, please reach out to me via louise@renewedperspectives.co.uk to keep in touch about this.

In the meantime, this video shares more information: The Benefits of Coaching