Psychology services
Hollybrook Health Psychology provides a range of psychological services to promote wellbeing and healthier lifestyles. We adopt a personalised approach within individual therapy to provide a space for personal and professional development and reflection on life.
We help people wanting to improve their lifestyle, those who are experiencing stress, anxiety, low mood and sleep issues, as well as supporting people who are dealing with the psychological and emotional impacts of health, injury and illness. We work with you to set goals, to strengthen your confidence, and enhance positive thinking.
Online and face-to-face appointments
Our approach to therapy is personalised and solution focused. We will work with you to understand your difficulties, help you to set goals and create tailored solutions and treatment plans.
We aim to provide you with knowledge and skills and will work with you to identify and enhance your existing coping tools using a compassionate approach. Each person is a unique individual and so an integrative approach combining different tools may be needed to bring positive change.
Supervision and training
We are an experienced provider of supervision services including Professional Health Psychology supervision offering one-to-one and group supervision, face-to-face and online.
Kate is the lead Health Psychology supervisor in the team with over a decade of experience supervising both trainee and qualified Health Psychologists as well as staff in psychological wellbeing roles.
Therapy sessions
Our approach to therapy is personalised and solution-focused, working with you to set goals and create individualised treatment plans, providing you with the knowledge and skills to enhance your existing coping tools.
We provide therapeutic help for:
Anxiety is a natural response when we are afraid, worried, or tense. It can affect our body and mind with physical sensations and negative thoughts. We can support you with occasional anxieties such as problems at work, before an exam or test. Sometimes anxiety doesn’t go away and gets worse over time and can then interfere with our daily lives. Talking therapies, relaxation techniques and directed self-help can all be useful in managing anxiety, and promoting wellbeing and flourishing.
Chronic illness can impact your physical and psychological health. As Health Psychologists, we take a holistic view and look at the biological, psychological, and social impacts and how your overall quality of life is affected as a result of the health condition. It may, for example, affect your sleep, mobility, sense of identity, and may result in feelings of loss and isolation. We can help you to manage your long term condition using an integrative approach to help you understand the health condition and symptoms, and support coping with emotional impacts.
Talking therapies can be very effective at treating fears and phobias (e.g., of medical and dental appointments, flying, objects) and are recommended as a treatment for anxiety and panic disorders. We will support you with self-help advice, relaxation techniques and evidence-based interventions. We understand that it can be difficult to seek advice for fears and phobias especially if doing so involves a situation you fear. We can support you to talk about your feelings, thoughts, and behaviours.
We know that hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD) and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) are chronic conditions that do not just affect your joints and cause pain, but you may also be experiencing other symptoms and conditions that affect other parts of your body. Managing your overall condition on a day-to-day basis can be difficult, causing additional fatigue and anxiety. We are here to support you in developing self-management strategies, reducing barriers in everyday life and support you with the emotional impact.
Clinical hypnotherapy can help with the management of IBS symptoms by improving symptom severity and managing the stress associated with continuous symptoms. It is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as part of the management of IBS for individuals experiencing a continuous symptom profile.
Supporting your mindset, nutrition, and training to help overcome the psychological barriers that make fitness and nutrition feel challenging. Whether you struggle with motivation, confidence, diet consistency, or sticking to a structured training plan, we provide tailored support to guide you combining mindset coaching and structured planning to help you build sustainable habits and achieve long-term results.
Persistent anxiety and/or low mood can affect your quality of life. You may experience low self-esteem and may have lost interest in normally enjoyable activities. Psychological therapy can help you to understand your thought patterns, set goals, can motivate, and provide an effective way to support you with managing anxiety and/or low mood.
With over a decade of experience working in women’s health, we can tailor sessions to your symptoms and needs. Hormonal changes can cause a range of impacts and effects including low confidence, worry, health anxiety and physical symptoms. Drawing upon up to date research, we will provide you with information about the link between hormones and women’s health, will teach you skills to manage your responses, and use therapeutic techniques to support your wellbeing.
Chronic pain is common and can affect your sleep, work, relationships and everyday activities. Understanding how pain is affecting your quality of life is important and we will discuss this during the initial assessment session. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and exercise programmes are recommended by NICE for the management of chronic primary pain. Everyone experiences pain differently, we will work with you to understand your pain responses and identify solutions to manage your individual pain symptoms.
Sleep difficulties happen from time to time but if sleep issues continue they can impact on our quality of life and general health. A lack of regular sleep can impact on both the body and mind and increases the risk of a number of medical conditions including diabetes and heart disease as well as the risk of accidents. It can affect your concentration, working and home life and your mood. We will work together to look at the thoughts and behaviours that can influence your sleep and identify strategies to promote good sleep hygiene.