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What’s the most effective type of therapy for PTSD?

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Emma Smith, a private psychologist based in Chelsea, explores the process of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps PTSD sufferers deal with the traumatic memory that is causing them distress. Chelsea Psychology Clinic are a group of London psychologists and psychiatrists offering private psychological therapy and psychiatry treatment from their premises across central London and Chelsea. The private therapy sessions cover the following areas: – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy – Cognitive Analytic Therapy – Cognitive-behavioural Therapy – Couples Therapy – Dialectical-behaviour Therapy – Mentalisation Based Treatment – Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy – Schema Therapy https://www.thechelseapsychologyclinic.com

Video Transcription

It’s really good evidence based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR, anything that helps you to actually process the memory. So treatment for PTSD is inherently very, very challenging, because it’s asking the person to come in and to actually face the traumatic memory that is causing so much distress. But in therapy, we will work through it in a very graded way. So we’ll only do as much as someone’s able to manage, thinking back to the factory metaphor. We don’t want to just flood someone and go through the same process again. We want to help someone to break the memory down into bite-size chunks so they can be processed and go through into ordinary memory.

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Dr Emma Smith

Dr Emma Smith

19 June 2022

"Dr Emma Smith completed her BSc (Hons) at the University of Warwick, an MSc in Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, and her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Christ Church Canterbury University. She worked as a clinical psychologist in a specialist service in a Central London NHS Trust until moving to Sussex where she now works as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the NHS and continues to offer sessions with The Chelsea Psychology Clinic online."

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