Therapy for Seniors

Alleviating loneliness and social isolation

Reducing and coping with loneliness and social isolation, with a “You’re not alone” approach.

Loneliness and social isolation is very common in our elderly population. Both are a risk factor associated with a reduction in mental health and general wellbeing. Which is both a national and international public health concern.

Loneliness and social isolation have an overwhelming impact on an individual’s quality of daily life.

With an increased risk of, Anxiety, Depression, Cognitive Decline or Alzheimer’s Disease.

Our psychotherapeutic talk therapy approach will support and guide you to allow you to accept who you are, and where you are in the present.

Acknowledge your thoughts, feelings and emotions, facilitate change and forward thinking. Meaning you can enjoy a more fulfilling life.

Our approach will validate you and your self, support and guide you to positively accept, change and be more compassionate towards yourself and others. You will learn ways to understand, change and cope with emotions, thoughts and behaviours and turn them into a motivational self-directed way to manage your life.

We achieve this by initial individual talk therapy to help you reduce your feelings of loneliness and support and guide you to be less socially isolated. Sessions of group therapy will support and guide you further, towards a more active and social lifestyle.

Talking with a therapist who's trained to work with LGBT people may help with issues such as: Difficulty accepting your sexual orientation. Coping with other people's reactions to your sexuality. Feeling your body does not reflect your true gender (gender dysphoria)

Psychotherapeutic benefits for our LGBT Clients

Our therapist will provide a safe and supportive environment to discuss your inner struggles, talk about issues with trauma, and identify effective coping mechanisms. Therapy can also address any feelings of anxiety and depression and provide tools for managing stress.

We understand and have helped LGBT clients, with struggles that have had an affect on their mental health, such as discrimination, homophobia, transphobia, social isolation, rejection, and difficult varied experiences of coming out. It's important to note that embracing being LGBT can have an over positive impact on someone's well-being too.

Nationwide research has highlighted, many reasons why there are higher rates of mental health issues among LGBT people that are complex. There are many experiences that LGBT people will often have to deal with as a minority community, such as stigma, prejudice, and discrimination as well as being comfortable with your “Self”.

CLARITY Note:

LGBT on our social media stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans. We have used the term LGBT on this page, but we realise this doesn’t cover all the ways people define their gender or sexuality.

Our service is here without prejudice, for all.

The purpose of rehabilitative psychotherapy is to improve rehabilitation of our clients’ ability to work and study.

Developed to help them progress in their studies, remain economically active, enter or return to working life. Your ability to work or study is impaired by the effects of long covid or mental health problems. You may have previously received at least three months of appropriate therapy after a mental health disorder was diagnosed based on a psychiatrist’s assessment. It can be assessed that rehabilitative psychotherapy is necessary to improve or support your ability to actively work or study.

Rehabilitative psychotherapy can be provided in the form of individual, group, family or couples psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy in the form of intensive talking therapy rehabilitation is targeted at persons whose illness is so severe that it makes everyday life significantly more difficult and who have difficulties in coping with everyday chores.

OCEAN Intense Therapy Programme

“It takes courage to recognise the real as opposed to the convenient.”
Dame Judi Dench
 Ambassador for Mental Health Awareness  

Therapy in luxury settings is becoming more and more popular, some of our clients are affluently placed to request therapy at home or venues of their choice. Limiting disruption to their life, keeping anonymity and maximum confidentiality while receiving professional treatment they need.

Our bespoke therapy OCEAN was created to facilitate such requests from our more discerning clients.

OCEAN - Intensive Therapy Programme.

O - Openness (which is a personality trait characterised by imagination, creativity, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to experience new things)

C - Conscientiousness (characterised by self-discipline, responsibility, and a tendency to plan ahead)

E - Extraversion (characterised by outgoingness, assertiveness, and a preference for social interaction)

A - Agreeableness (characterised by empathy, cooperation, and a concern for others' well-being)

N - Neoteric (a modern person; one accepting new ideas and practices.)

OCEAN is an intensive focused therapy, without the distractions of having to get back to a work or continue other daily life routines after regular hourly therapy. It is person centred and bespoke, so you do only the work that actually helps you heal.

OCEAN is fluid but concentrated, so you're able to make progress without as many of the week-to-week setbacks that can make it hard to sustain your feelings and path to recovery. 

OCEAN is aimed at our more discerning clients, who wish private therapy within the privacy of their own chosen venue.  Maximising comfort, relaxation and reduction in travel and enhancing confidentiality. 
Bespoke to your needs, our therapists will travel to you, delivering your therapy at your residence or chosen venue. 

After assessment we will discuss the length of your therapy, so that you will gain maximum therapeutic benefit.  

OCEAN is delivered in weekly block sessions, 4 to 6 hour days over 5 days per week. Therapy is delivered alternately by two therapists to concentrated therapeutic input, quality, intensive continuity and ensure maximum holistic benefit for our clients. 

Depending on your needs, therapy can last from 1 week to 6 weeks for the most challenging issues. (Most clients book 1 or 2 weeks)

Our clients will have 2 online follow-up aftercare sessions over 2 weeks, lasting 50 minutes per Session to consolidate therapy conclusion.

EXPAT Therapy

Whether you live or are planning on moving abroad or even taking a short weekend getaway, taking care of your mental health will go a long way to making sure you don’t miss out on any experiences.

Planning is especially important when visiting foreign countries. As an expat your home country would have shown you compassion for your mental health and provide readily available help and support for your issues.

Foreign countries may lack knowledge or empathy to help you fully deal with certain mental health illnesses you may experience, due to not fully understanding your country of birth culture and customs, and language barriers to fully maximise therapy sessions in relation to these.

It’s important to remember that mental health issues don’t discriminate and can affect anyone at anytime, anywhere.

Even if you’ve never experienced a mental health episode before, it’s worth noting that moving and living in another country can trigger something within you, or in case someone you’re travelling with has an episode.

It is also important to remember that mental health issues, not only affects those suffering, but can also have an effect on those around them.

Expats commonly seek therapy due to feeling isolated, lonely, stressed and anxious once the initial transition excitement of relocating reduces. Feeling loss of regular contact family and friends. Getting used to your new life can at times feel overwhelming as well as exciting.

As you read this you have taken the first step in your therapeutic recovery, as you know now yourself, you need therapy and are actively seeking it.

Together we will bring CLARITY to you, working together we will support and guide you through your struggles. So that you can fully enjoy your new life to its maximum.

Are you a victim or person affected by a criminal occurrence, domestic abuse or violence or a witness to either?

Do you need help to cope or deal with issues that were directly or indirectly caused by it or do you have mental health problems that are exasperated by another’s criminal behaviour?

Are you a victim of crime, a relative of a victim of crime, a family member or close friend of a victim or perpetrator of a criminal occurrence?

Struggling to deal and come to terms with incidents of domestic abuse. Domestic abuse comprises of a wide range of categories of behaviours such as physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviours, controlling or coercive behaviours, psychological or economic or emotional abuse. Prosecution is under a range of offences; it doesn't matter whether the behaviours consist of a single incident or a course of incidents and various behaviours.

Domestic abuse is very rarely just a one-off incident. It is usually a combination of different cumulative, interlinked types of abusive behaviours and incidents. These have particularly damaging psychological effects on the victim or others witness to it. The 'domestic' nature of the offending behaviours is a main aggravating factor because of the abuse of 'trust' involved.

Our Forensic (Forensic' means related to, or associated with, legal issues - crime and Criminal Law) Therapy, utilises therapy approaches specifically formulated for our clients and their therapy needs. Our therapists have extensive clinical experience working with people who have offended (criminal offenders), victims of crime and others who have been affected by the offence itself, directly or indirectly.

The aim of forensic psychotherapy is not only to help our clients understand the effects crime can have on an individual, but reduce the impact of what they are experiencing directly or indirectly as a result of it. Supporting and guiding our clients to understand themselves as a person as a whole within his/her self and the world around them. Forensic psychotherapy involves 1:1 individual sessions, families work or possible group work at a later stage. We work with victims of the crime, and work with individuals or families of both victims or perpetrators in the occurrence of crime, who have problems coping, understanding and dealing with their mental health in relation to coping with what has happened.

Working for over a decade clinically practicing in Forensic Healthcare as well as the appropriate specialist training and experience, our therapists have excellent communication skills and strong knowledge of the forensic profession to clearly offer the right therapy our clients need backed by the specialist theoretical, ethical, and holistic requirements for successful therapy outcomes.

This is why it is important to seek a therapist with whom it is possible to establish clarity of communication and a sense of good fit. More importantly, experience with Forensic knowledge and who has had extensive training with clinical therapeutic skills and backed with vast experience in this area.

Contact us for a free 20-minute session, so we can discuss with you, why CLARITY Talking Therapies can offer you the help, support and guidance you’re looking for.

Coming to terms with your own emotions at your own pace is important when learning to cope with loss. Initially, it may seem as though finding acceptance or peace following the death is a daunting experience. Over time, those feelings may come and go as you continue to work through grief.

What is bereavement?

Bereavement is the period of time after we have lost someone or something we miss or love. It describes how we try to adjust to the significant amount of change that follows.

The deepness of the bereavement will vary depending on the significance of the relationship between the deceased and the bereaved. An overwhelming sense of loss could be accompanied by emotions, anger, sadness, guilt, frustration and anxiety, often follow immediately after the death. Often described as ‘Being in mourning.’

Depending on the circumstances, such as, if the person’s death was sudden or was it anticipated, your response to grief will affect you in unexpected ways. You may experience feelings of anger or unexpected changes in your mood and emotions and thoughts, which can affect your view of your own life and your life going forward.

Examples of bereavement and intense grief include;

Death of a parent - the loss of our parents is an unfortunate event many of us have to prepare for during our lives. This will be a particularly significant death if you maintained a close bond with your parent and can leave you feeling isolated.

Death of a child - outliving your child or experiencing death of a child can be one of the most painful periods of bereavement. The death of a child or adolescent is unexpected in the natural continuum of life. You may experience feelings of reduced hope and sadness of your child not getting the chance to fulfil their potential and seeing them grow up, which understandably changes your life forever.

Death of a spouse or partner - as we spend so much of our adult lives with our spouse or partner, their loss can make you feel like you’ve lost a part of yourself and your ultimate companion.

Death of a sibling - whether you are a child, adolescent or adult, losing your sibling can be very difficult at any life stage. As you have grown up with your sibling, you may have a very close bond with them, although feelings of jealously or comparison during their lifetime can make you feel regret.

Death through suicide - losing someone to suicide is one of the more difficult and complex forms of bereavement you can go through. The more common emotions and symptoms felt during the grieving process can be further complicated by feelings of anger and regret directed either at your loved one for leaving the world, or towards yourself for either not fully understanding their state of mind or feeling as though you could have done more to help them while they were alive.

The stages of grief you may experience

There are five commonly recognised stages of grief, although there are questionably more.

It is important to understand that these stages are not always in a set order. They may occur in any order and people have experienced several stages all at the same time.

Retirement?

There comes a time when rest is necessary from the daily work routine, in everyone's life. Our body and mind get tired, and we lack the enthusiasm or energy to be as constantly productive as we were; this is the time when most people seek to retire.

Retirement is not ‘Quitting’!

What is retirement?

The definition of retirement refers to that part of any person's life when they choose to leave their work-life behind permanently. Many people decide to quit their job when they are older or have reduced health and are not able to contribute to it no longer. Some people just retire, when they reach a certain age and are eligible for private and\or public pensions. Retirement can come unplanned for people who fall ill or have unexpected accidents.

Over 90% of people who are in the process of retiring always think of the financial matters and costs and the physical gains of retiring. They never consider the possible psychological ones that come too, and how to turn them into gains.

Retiring and settling into retirement is an exciting time. It comes with a sense of freedom and gives us that holiday feeling. Retirement if we like, has 4 phases. Like any major change in life, it has a psychological process that we must go through to achieve peace, happiness and reach our goal, to enjoy retirement.

The 4 phases of retirement: -

1. Holiday phases (I’m loving this, to be able to do as much or as little as I choose and when I choose)
2. Loss and Feeling Loss (I’m lost, retirement was not what I thought, I’m bored) You are feeling one or more of, 5 big losses - routine, identity, relationship's purpose, & power
3. Trial & Error (it is common to slip back into phase 2), while trying new things, getting stuck there is the real problem.
4. Reinvention & Rewiring, answer your tough questions - how can I enjoy and get more and the most from my retirement, and go for it?

Denial, disbelief, and numbness - initial feelings of shock and disbelief can lead to denial and numbness.

Anger or blame - grieving individuals may experience anger or blame, directed at themselves or others.

Bargaining - religious individuals may go through a bargaining stage, making promises or personal sacrifices.

Depressed mood and sadness - depression is common in those grieving a loved one, and seeking help from therapists is crucial.

Acceptance - while not guaranteed, acceptance is the final stage of grief, characterised by a sense of calm and readiness to move forward.

Forensic Focused Therapy

LGBT with CLARITY

Rehabilitative Psychotherapy

Bereavement Therapy

Retirement Orientation Therapy (ROT)

ROT - Therapy will help you to: -

Phase 1, guide you so that you are prepared to deal with the losses in phases 2.

Phase 2, motivate and support you to confidently experiment with as many things as you can in phase 3.

Phase 3, accept (acknowledge & allow) you may at times go back into stage 2 to move forward, but cope with the issues better and re gain the big 5 losses (routine, identity, relationships purpose, & power) lost in stage 2.

Stage 4- Now you can fully enjoy and make the most from your retirement.

What is ROT?

A process of deterioration; decisions or actions that don’t have the desired outcome, or a decline in values achievements and standards.

"I have the determination and strength, to stop the rot"

Orientation?

A person's basic attitude, beliefs, or feelings in relation to a particular subject or managing certain issues, or events.

Positive orientation is a term which embodies life satisfaction, self-esteem, and optimism to be able to positively be in the present moment and look and move towards the future. It represents an omnipresent method of facing reality, reflecting on experience, framing events, and processing personal and interpersonal experiences across time and life circumstances.

Let’s stop the ROT, Reverse the negative psychological affects due to the challenges of settling into retirement, positive change can turn your situation around and give it new meaning, with Retirement Orientation Therapy (ROT). Situations and experiences are not always, as they seem.

Mental health status all over the country, is now being carried out as a matter of priority, a new form of lifestyle occupational health check - MOT. This includes mental health assessment, alcohol and smoking status, diet, weight, blood pressure, ensuring that mental health and wellbeing identified issues are promptly recognised and treated.

Whether for personal or professional purposes, looking after your mental health and wellbeing is vitally important.

CLARITY, our NMC specialist registered Mental Health Nurse will:

• Complete a mental health and well-being assessment.

• Carry out a physical check-up, including weight, waist measurement, respiratory, heart rate and blood pressure.

• Discuss perceived stress and the importance of the brain-gut axis (connection)

• Recommend that you contact your GP, to have a blood test or further medical assessment if necessary.

• Talk to you about staying well and ask if you need any help or support with this.

• Talk to you about any of your medicines and ask if you have any side effects that may be causing you discomfort or issues.

• Check if your vaccinations are up to date.

• Check how you are coping if you have had any historical or current mental health concerns.

CLARITY, Mental Health and Wellbeing MOT will last for 90 minutes.
It has been formulated to explore the current state of our client’s mental health and well-being.

The individual will receive a confidential report that includes a recommendation on future wellbeing pathways.

Letting you keep your health and wellbeing, safely in your own hands.