Evidence Based Treatments Tailored To
Your Needs At Evolving Minds
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
An evidence based approach effective for addressing a variety of challenges, including anxiety, depression, chronic pain, stress, trauma, OCD, eating disorders, and addiction. ACT helps navigate difficult emotions and reduce harmful patterns. It is also valuable for managing life transitions, improving relationships, and enhancing overall well-being.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
A widely used, evidence based approach effective in addressing anxiety, chronic pain, depression, OCD, trauma, addiction, and stress. By helping identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours, CBT promotes emotional resilience, improved coping skills, and positive life changes.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
​An evidence-based approach effective for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), self-harm, suicidal ideation, emotion dysregulation, chronic depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance use, and interpersonal difficulties. DBT helps individuals regulate intense emotions, build distress tolerance, improve communication, and develop healthier coping strategies.
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Eating Disorders (DBT-E)
​DBT-E is effective for a range of eating disorders, including Binge Eating Disorder (BED), Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED), and emotional eating. DBT-E helps regulate emotions that lead to harmful eating behaviours, such as bingeing, purging, or restriction, while creating a healthier relationship with food and body image. It addresses emotional dysregulation, perfectionism, and reliance on food as a coping mechanism.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
​EFT is primarily used to improve relationships by addressing emotional patterns and strengthening connections. It is highly effective for couples facing conflict, communication issues, emotional disconnection, or infidelity, as well as those dealing with attachment-related challenges, trauma, or unresolved emotional pain. EFT is also beneficial for families navigating strained relationships.
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Gottman Couple Therapy
​A research-based approach designed to help couples improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen their emotional connection. It is particularly effective for addressing issues such as recurring arguments, emotional distance, trust issues, infidelity, and difficulties with intimacy. This method provides practical tools to build trust and manage conflict constructively.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing - EMDR)
​EMDR helps process and heal from distressing memories and traumatic experiences by using bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements, to activate the brain’s natural ability to reprocess difficult memories. This technique reduces the emotional intensity linked to these memories. EMDR is widely used to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders, depression, phobias, and low self-esteem . It is also beneficial for treating eating disorders, body image and low self-worth.
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Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - (CBT-E)
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CBT-E, or Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, is a specialised and evidence-based treatment for eating disorders. It is tailored to each person's specific needs and targets the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that maintain the eating disorder.
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Maudsley - Family Based Therapy (FBT)
​A highly effective, evidence-based treatment approach designed specifically for children and adolescents with eating disorders, such as Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. The therapy involves the entire family as active participants in the recovery process
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​Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
​An evidence-based approach that addresses the connection between emotions and relationships. Effective in the management of grief, interpersonal conflicts, as well as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and relationship issues.
MANTRA (Maudsley Model of Anorexia Nervosa)
​A specialised therapy designed to treat anorexia nervosa by targeting the emotional and psychological aspects of eating disorders.​This approach focuses on building motivation for change and helping clients gain a deeper understanding of the emotional triggers and underlying factors.​​​
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Radically Open Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (RO-DBT)
​An evidence-based treatment designed for those struggling with overcontrol, such as excessive self-restraint, perfectionism, and difficulty forming connections. Effective for challenges like chronic depression, anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), social isolation, and anxiety, RO DBT focuses on increasing openness, flexibility, and social connection.
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Schema Therapy
​Highly effective for a range of presentations, including personality disorders, chronic depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, trauma, and relationship difficulties. It is particularly helpful with long-standing patterns of negative thinking, emotional dysregulation, and maladaptive behaviours due to unmet emotional needs or early life experiences.
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Somatic Psychotherapy
​Somatic Psychotherapy is particularly effective for presentations where the mind-body connection plays a significant role, including trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and physical symptoms related to emotional distress, such as chronic pain or fatigue. It is also helpful for individuals struggling with emotional regulation, dissociation, or unresolved grief.
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Systems Theory
​Systems Theory helps navigate complex dynamics in relationships and environments. This approach is especially effective in family and couples therapy, as it focuses on improving communication, resolving conflicts, and creating healthier connections.​
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Trauma Focused CBT (TF-CBT)
​TF-CBT helps develop coping skills to manage distressing emotions, while also reducing trauma related symptoms like anxiety and intrusive thoughts. TF-CBT aims to promote healing by helping process trauma in a safe and supportive environment.​​