Life can be relentless journey, full of moments of joy and sometimes, intense struggles.
We understand the toll it can take on all aspects of a persons wellbeing when juggling the demands of modern life, along with the common pitfalls that we can find ourselves falling into along the way.
We want to help you navigate this journey, teaching evidence based therapeutic strategies and tools that work. We really believe that the best thing we can do for our loved ones is to take care of ourselves.
Sometimes, we need some help and guidance to do this, and that’s where we come in.
About us
Think Hive Health is an out-patient service. Our team is committed to transforming mental health with dedicated, significant efforts and time. We work with individuals and couples.
We provide support to clients across the age range and life stages. Our clinicians are trained in a wide range of therapeutic tools to support your wellbeing journey.
Our Team
Rachel Smith
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist & EDMR therapist
Ramsha Butt
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist & EDMR therapist
How we can help
Supporting Personal Healing Journeys
Think Hive health are committed to a creating a future where your wellbeing is the priority, at whatever stage of the journey you are at, we will help you have access to effective and meaningful knowledge and resources to promote and support positive Psychological wellbeing.
Getting going
Getting you eased in
Starting therapy can feel overwhelming. Many clients arrive at their first session not really knowing what the problem is or what they may need help with, but know that things aren’t right.
Our Job is to work with you and together, figure this out.
How it works
How many sessions will you need?
At Think Hive Health, sessions are proactive and focused on increasing your self-insight, teaching effective strategies to aid your presentation.
Some clients may find progress made with effective results within the first 6-8 sessions, however, others may require up to 12 sessions, and some may continue to access therapy on a bi-monthly basis.
Our approach at Think Hive is person-centered and the required number of sessions depends on you.
What we treat
Therapy for Depression
Often when we think of someone who is depressed, we think of someone who can’t get out of bed and is unable to function at all. Although this can be the case for some people, there are many others who experience depression and continue to go about their life’s daily duties and responsibilities, despite feeling really low in mood.
In both scenarios there is low mood that is there more days than not, that has made just living feel like too much effort.
Signs of Depression:
- Thoughts of suicide, or beliefs they or those who loved them may be better off if they were dead.
- Little interest or pleasure in usual activity.
- Feeling hopeless.
- Increased demotivation.
- Desire to withdraw.
- Perceiving self as worthless or burdensome.
- Sleeping too much, too little or struggling to get to sleep.
- Eating too much or too little.
Therapy for Anxiety
Anxiety can be debilitating and hold you back from functioning as you would like to in many aspects of your life. Anxiety stems from the brain believing that we are in some type of ‘threat’ and making attempts to either avoid, control, or escape this threat. The tricky thing is that the brain often misjudges things as threatening, when perhaps, they are not, and this subsequently leads us to moving away from the things in life that give us a sense of achievement or enjoyment. The longer we believe this perceived threat, the longer we remain stuck in a cycle of fear and life can feel very small.
Anxiety is commonly accompanied by a number of distressing bodily sensations, including (but not limited to):
- Irritability
- Racing heart
- Chest tightening
- Stomach sensations
- Nausea
- Dizziness
- Fatigue
Therapy for low self-esteem
Self-esteem is the opinion you have of yourself. When you have healthy self-esteem, you tend to think positively about yourself, and optimistically about life in general. When you have low self-esteem, you tend to see yourself, the world, and your future more negatively and critically. You might feel anxious, sad, low, or unmotivated. When you encounter challenges, you may doubt whether you will be able to rise to them. You might talk to yourself harshly in your mind, telling yourself things like “You’re stupid”, “You’ll never manage this”, or “I don’t amount to anything”.
Therapy for OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours.
OCD can affect men, women and children. People can start having symptoms from as early as 6 years old, but it often begins around puberty and early adulthood.
OCD can be distressing and significantly interfere with your life, but treatment can help you keep it under control.
Therapy for Health Anxiety
If you have health anxiety, worries about your health can take over your life and cause you a lot of distress. It is thought that between 1 and 10 people out of every 100 will experience health anxiety every year [1]. Fortunately, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are both effective psychological treatments for health anxiety.
You can develop health anxiety whether you are healthy, or you have a diagnosed medical condition. You can be diagnosed with health anxiety if your symptoms have persisted for at least six months and have caused you significant distress, or have negatively affected your daily life.
Therapy for PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events. Someone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt. They may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.
These symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person’s day-to-day life. PTSD can develop immediately after someone experiences a disturbing event, or it can occur weeks, months or even years later.
PTSD is estimated to affect about 1 in every 3 people who have a traumatic experience, but it’s not clear exactly why some people develop the condition and others do not.
Services
Psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that focuses on identifying and improving the way we think (our cognitions) and the way we act (our behaviours). The way in which we think, feel, and behave are tightly linked, and so it is not uncommon that we can get stuck in unhelpful cycles where each area negatively influences the other.
Whilst adversity, significant events and experiences are accompanied with natural human emotional reaction such sadness, anger, anxiety etc, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on how someone is coping in the context of these life events, and aims to help challenge and support individuals to move towards more functional and rational thinking and behavioural processes.
There are vast bodies of research that highlight that CBT can be a highly effective therapy model for treatment for common mental health disorders and eases suffering.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy, people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.
EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. For more information, visit: www.emdrassociation.org.uk/what-is-emdr
Women’s Mental Health
We know that certain experiences are likely to impact women’s mental health which are unique to being a woman. We have devised a number of CBT Based programmes specifically for the benefit of women.
Mindfulness
Online Therapy
We know how difficult it can be to get a face-to-face therapy appointment these days. How impossible it can feel to squeeze in a visit in your already hectic schedule, and how you just seem to forget all the things your therapist told you since that last visit. Online therapy supports the needs of busy individuals who are unable to make it to clinics so they can still access therapy around their schedule.
Corporate
We at Think Hive Health provide mental health and wellbeing training and courses for enterprises. Whether this is employee wellbeing assessments or corporate events, we meet the needs of the company.
Testimonials
We pride ourselves in making meaningful changes in our clients lives.
A few months ago, I found myself in a difficult place in life, feeling anxious and depressed most of the time and unable to move forward. I opened up about my feelings and thoughts with Ramsha and we delved deeper to find the root cause of my anxiety, depression and lack of self-worth. We worked through the traumas I have experienced from a young age through my teenage years and into adult life and how they have continued to impact me even though years have passed. Ramsha worked with me to put formulations together to positively change the way I go about thinking about things. She helped me uncover my triggers and how to deal with situations better going forward. Ramsha created a safe space where I felt like I could talk to her about anything and everything. As the weeks passed, I began to notice a change in my mental wellbeing and at the end of 16 session of CBT therapy, I was in a much better and happier place. Thank you Ramsha for helping and support me through a difficult time!
Female, 30
I found these sessions made a positive impact on my mental health, I was supported 100% throughout all sessions, I felt validated and heard and I made a breakthrough with past traumas. Now, I feel I have the opportunity to LIVE my life.
Female, 35
It’s been a pleasure worked with Rachel. She is experienced and skilled. During my sessions Rachel always looked out my wellbeing and built a structured treatment plan for me. Rachel presents her professionalism by actively engaging myself to speak up and being responsive to my treatment progress. I found our treatment sessions very useful and beneficial for my improvement.
Female, 30
I Seriously can’t thank you enough for your patience and support. I feel like I am becoming the person I used to be again, but that a better, 2.0 is around the corner.
Thank you so much.
I am going to miss our sessions terribly, but, I am ok with that, because I know I can cope so much better than before, with life, and I can see what affects me and I can deal with it in a more constructive way.
Your adaptability, as well as your therapist ninja skills are, in my opinion, one of the key success factors in me being in the place I am right now, with an eye to the future, and being, well, more
Male, 49
Contact Us
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