A full guide to the therapies available with Duty to Care

For those new to Duty to Care, we know it can feel a little intimidating when there are so many therapies on offer. So we want to make it easy for you to choose the right course for you. We’ve created this full guide to all of our therapies on offer, to stop you from feeling overwhelmed and help you take back control of your life. Hundreds have already signed up to Duty to Care and so many have received amazing support from our huge range of therapists. You could be among those getting much-needed wellbeing and mental health support – don’t be afraid to reach out with any questions.

Counsellor

Duty to Care has a range of counsellors specialising in mental health, trauma, grief and loss. There are a range of integrative counselling styles and some therapists also combine counselling with psychotherapy services. Our therapists provide safe, non-judgemental spaces to explore patterns, thoughts and feelings that might be causing you concern or distress. We also have a counsellor who is providing tailored services for those struggling with confinement or illness during COVID-19.

Psychotherapist

Psychotherapy (also known as psychological therapy or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behaviour and overcome problems. Our psychotherapists have experience of working for the NHS, private healthcare, hospices and charities across the country. We also have a Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist who has provided therapy to survivors of abuse & trauma, oppressed & marginalised groups and sufferers of severe anxiety and depression. Her particular interest lies in the dynamics of power in relationships, mostly within the context of abuse, trauma and everyday personal and professional relationships. Our other psychotherapists specialise in supporting those suffering from stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD and trauma.

Read: Q&A with psychotherapist Christopher Westray

CBT Therapist

CBT has some similarities with NLP in its philosophy that the content of our thoughts have a major influence on our emotions and behaviour. However CBT and NLP differ in the way they help people – CBT looks to help you make sense of the problems you may be experiencing in the moment by using the framework to consciously think of changes you can make, whereas NLP looks to change the underlying patterns/strategies so that the problems don’t reappear. CBT focuses purely on the conscious mind. Duty to Care’s CBT therapists interview, design and administer treatments, in order to work with trauma, personality disorders, anxiety, depression, additions, OCD and personal growth.

Read: Q&A with Lorna Devine on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

NLP Therapist

NLP offers a therapy that does not require individuals to discuss their problems at length in order to provide the solution. NLP is more focused on the client looking forward to what they want to change - how they want to think, feel, behave - and using tools to get there. NLP also focuses on the unconscious mind, where patterns and habits can be changed in a matter of minutes, not days or weeks. Duty to Care has several NLP therapists who help those experiencing a challenging time in their life to maximise their mental health, happiness and performance.

Read: Q&A with NLP practitioner James Wilson

Hypnotherapist

Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness. It can be used to treat anxiety, phobias, substance abuse including tobacco, sexual dysfunction, undesirable spontaneous behaviours, and bad habits. It can be used to help improve sleep, learning disorders, communication, and relationship issues. Our therapists work with wide range of clients of all ages, dealing primarily with issues involving stress, anxiety, trauma, fear.

Life Coach

Feeling slightly off-track? Or like you’re losing control of your life? Why not try a session with a Life Coach? Duty to Care has a range of life coaches including one with 20 years experience of working with Olympic and Paralympic athletes, so she knows how to help those dealing with stressful work lives. Our therapists specialise in helping people improve their resilience, refine and facilitate change and improve levels of anxiety and stress by broadening perspective. They use their expertise to provide you with the tools needed to recognise and overcome anxiety, stress and burnout.

Breathwork

Breathwork is becoming increasingly popular and Duty to Care have several breathwork therapists to choose from. One therapist particularly focuses on addressing dysfunctional breathing patterns to help alleviate feelings of anxiety and stress, and on holding a safe and gentle space, which allows for the exploration of physical, mental and emotional issues. Another therapist has combined science with emerging spiritual technologies such as breathwork and bio-hacking to promote self-healing. He focuses on three levels; the physical body, emotion and spirituality to heal trauma located within the nervous system.

Read: Q&A with The Breath Geek – Richard Blake

Yoga

Our yoga therapists can offer you various types of yoga, including hatha, ashtanga, vinyasa and yin yoga. These can help to relax you, or to feel more energised – sessions can be tailored to suit your individual needs. They work with clients on a one-to-one basis, personalising their practice so that the yoga is restorative, therapeutic and stress-relieving. Some also have group sessions available. One therapist also offers trauma-informed yoga and therapeutic yoga so you can take their yoga off the mat and into the world.

Read: Q&A with yoga teacher and educator Ellie Grace on trauma-informed yoga

Mindful Movement Teacher

Duty to Care’s Mindful Movement teacher combines movement with her Mindfulness Coaching. She creates an open, friendly space to learn about mindfulness, to help lower stress and anxiety levels and increase resilience and self-compassion. Sessions will empower you with a practical toolkit to use day to day; introduce or deepen a meditation practice to help feel grounded and more focused; develop an awareness of how our minds and bodies work, so you can manage thoughts, feelings and behaviours more effectively. She is able to integrate mindful movement and yoga into the sessions, the client’s needs act as a compass for the way she uses her practice to help them realign.

Barre Instructor

If you’re looking to get fit, we have one therapist who is offering barre fitness classes to energise, strengthen and condition the body and mind. Combining ballet-inspired moves with elements of Pilates, dance, yoga and strength training, it’s a hybrid workout that will challenge your body. These are available online and alongside yoga classes.

Read: Q&A with yoga teacher Alice Mooney

Nutritional Therapist

Our directory features several experienced nutritional therapists who can provide personalised one-to-one coaching to help you achieve your health goals. Whether it’s to lose body fat, to learn how to live a balanced lifestyle or to enhance your athletic performance. Our therapists give you the building blocks and resources to feel well again. They can also provide tailored advice for anyone struggling with chronic digestive problems, poor energy levels, nutrient deficiencies, hormonal imbalances and autoimmune conditions by helping them use food (and sometimes supplements) as medicine. Plus we have a nutritionist who can support those struggling with women’s health, skin and hormonal balance, fatigue and emotional wellbeing.

Read: Q&A with nutritionist Elly Ling

Personal Trainer

We have several personal trainers who can design bespoke nutrition, fitness and wellbeing, personal training programmes aligned to your lifestyle, helping you maximise potential and accomplish your goals. With fun and effective personal training sessions and nutritional guidance every step of the way - you will get results. Our trainers can provide services entirely online, they just ask that they can ideally see your whole body during training. If you have any home equipment, trainers will use this in your training, however if you don’t have anything, don’t let that stop you! Our trainers are full of suggestions of what to use around the house i.e water bottles or weighted rucksacks.

Read: Q&A with personal trainer Zara Smalley

Holistic Practitioner

Duty to Care’s holistic practitioner combines her interest in the latest evidence-based science with the traditional holistic sciences to offer clients a complete healthcare approach. Understanding each individual to be unique and offering personalised root cause solutions to their symptoms. She places emphasis on the foundational lifestyle principles of health as well as supporting clients with rapid relief solutions. Her background allows her to support clients from a 360 degree perspective including mind, body and emotional health.

Lifestyle Doctor

Duty to Care’s lifestyle doctor empowers patients to prevent and reverse illness. His comprehensive approach to lifestyle optimisation includes mental health, nutrition, exercise, sleep and relationships. He uses a 360º approach to a client’s lifestyle in order to optimise their health.

Functional Medicine Practitioner

Our functional medicine practitioner is passionate about restoring happiness and health to those who suffer with fatigue, hormone complaints, infertility, depression, anxiety, thyroid conditions, and weight issues. She works collaboratively with medical practitioners to help those who haven’t been able to combat their chronic health conditions fully through conventional medicine. She has had enormous success with diabetics, those with haemochromatosis, exhausted mums, menopausal women, and those merely needing to be guided towards vitality.

Meditation Teacher

Have you always wanted to try meditation? Feel the urge to slow down and take time for you? Duty to Care has several therapists offering meditation, including one who offers guided breathwork and meditations to support our mental health and the regulation of our nervous system. Another therapist fuses the synergies of modern life, conscious living and ancient practices such as reiki, breathwork, sound, intuitive voice healing and meditation.

Mindfulness Coach

If you find yourself needing to slow down, our mindfulness coaches can help support you back to happiness. Mindfulness techniques can be used as a way of achieving a greater awareness and acceptance of yourself and what is around you. These techniques can be used to help people live more meaningful and joyful lives. We also have a Mindfulness Coach who is a qualified sound healer and can offer guided meditation using healing vibrations. Sound healing has been found to benefit with specific conditions including; stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia and post traumatic stress disorder.

Read: 10 tips for becoming more present and practicing mindfulness

If you work for the NHS, you could receive sessions with any of these specialised therapists free of charge. Sign up to Duty to Care to gain access to our therapist directory now!