We can understand many of the emotional problems people report to mental health services through our relational lens. The relationship we have with our feelings, our thoughts, the events in our lives all influence how we feel about ourselves, how we interact with the world, and how we behave towards those around us. These relationships are circular and can be self-fulfilling, which mean they go round and round and feed themselves. For example:

• the more we avoid things we once enjoyed because we are feeling depressed, the more we feel depressed about ourselves,
• the more we listen to those anxious thoughts that tell us we’re ‘no good’ the more we doubt our abilities to succeed,
• the more we struggle to make meaningful friendships the more we feel like we’re destined to be alone and struggle to open up to people.

To take your life back from a problem you need to develop a different relationship with the problem itself. We need to put you back in the driver’s seat of your life; cultivate new skills and ideas that help keep you in charge of you and draw on the knowledge of what has worked for you before.

At Kaleidoscope, we do this by creating a safe, reflective space, where we can both seek to understand the origins of the problem and what maintains it now. In our therapeutic space we will use talking and creative approaches to help you consider what life would look like without this problem in it and develop a bespoke intervention plan to help you move forwards in the way that best suits you.

Everyone is different and needs something tailored to them. Our relational approach enables us to work with a range of what are traditionally referred to as mental health problems in an empowering and strength-based manner. Please click here to see our ‘our help’ page to see the types of problems we regularly help with.

We work collaboratively with all of our clients, we’re in this together after all; you bring your expertise on you, your life and the problem and we bring our expertise on what has helped others and how change works. Together we can make a difference.

If you are interested in the help we offer and would like to get booked in for a free 30-minute consultation with Dr Paul Walton, then please get in touch via the form below. If you have any further questions, then please click here to see our FAQ page.