Experience the Alternative
As the founder of People of Worth, Psychotherapist Imogen HG Johnson offers one to one therapeutic sessions, encompassing her extensive training and breadth of experience.
Areas of Counselling
Abuse
Addictions
Anxiety
Bereavement
Bullying
Cancer
Regardless of whether it’s yourself, a family member or a friend, a cancer diagnosis can bring difficult and painful feelings.
Discrimination
Discrimination is recognised as the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on theirage, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual identity or other ‘categories’ to which they are perceived to belong. Individuals who have been discriminated against be that indirectly (prejudice) or directly (harassment) can address this at ‘People of Worth Psychotherapy’.
Dissociation
Self-Confidence
Self-Esteem
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Stress
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Relationship Problems
Self-Harm
Sexuality
Therapies Offered
Integrative Psychotherapy
Interpersonal Therapy
The time-limited or ‘brief’ aspect of IPT therapy means that this type of therapy will always have an end date (around 12-16 sessions is considered the norm) and will focus on just a couple of key issues. For this reason, this therapy is best suited to those with identifiable problems.
Mindfulness
Person Centred Therapy
Gestalt Chair Dialogues
Life Story Journeys
Therefore, it has been suggested that a new approach: ‘Present, Past, Present and Future’ be used as this allows the client to feel that their current place in life is secure. This symbolically encourages the client to feel contained by their therapist and professionals surrounding them. Furthermore, Life story work sets the scene for the identification of the target memories (present concerns) and touch stone memories (past memories) that will need reprocessing within Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy.
Eye Movement Disensitization
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories identified within Life Story Work.
The therapist, working in collaboration with the client, will identify the target memories to be worked with and in what order according to the client’s emotional threshold capability. At this stage in the process the therapist further supports the client with identifying how a particular memory has impacted them through exploring the client’s negative belief system. An exploration then takes place of how that memory has impacted their self belief, what they would prefer to believe about themselves in that particular memory and how through future templates they’d like to behave differently.
Cognitive Interweaves or Inner Child reprocessing will often be used within a client’s reprocessing journey, where clients feel let down in their own experience of being parented. The most widely used technique is ‘Parks Inner Child Therapy’; where clients will be supported with parenting the ‘inner conflicted’ child ego state of their vulnerable self. Please see Info on Parks Inner Child Therapy description.
During EMDR therapy the therapist will support the client to explore emotionally disturbing material, as described above, while supporting the client to focus on an external stimulus. Stimuli include therapist directed lateral eye movement; following a light, pen or therapist finger, which are the most commonly used external stimulus, but a variety of other stimuli including hand-tapping and audio stimulation are often used.
Stabilization techniques are also used within EMDR therapy at the start of the therapeutic journey (visualization meditation), within the processing phase when clients become too overwhelmed (EMD/breathing techniques); and at the end of the session within body scans.
Parks Inner Child Therapy
PICT teaches that the core beliefs we have about ourselves (our identity), about others or about the world are learned during early childhood, before we are old enough to determine if the information is correct or not.
PICT works on the premise that the ‘inner child’ (that one part of our unconscious where the memories & beliefs of childhood reside) who holds the original beliefs, can be communicated with and the limiting beliefs can be changed.
The PICT model assists clients to access specific information, through the unconscious mind, to identify the root cause of ongoing problems and unwanted behaviours. Then, using specific PICT techniques, the client’s ‘adult part’ (with direction from the PICT therapist) gives the ‘child part’ appropriate information, love and support – which are the three basic ingredients needed to create belief change. Consequently, changing the perspective for the ‘child part’ and enabling the ‘child’ and ‘adult’ part of the client to both gain positive and matching beliefs about self. Essentially, the client is guided through the unwanted feelings or behaviours to the desired emotional freedom. Within this process the ‘parent’ part is automatically learning new attitudes and skills to alter negative and destructive self-talk.