Private Psychological Therapies

The Oakdale Centre provides psychological therapies for:

• Children
• Young people
• Adults
• Couples
• Families
• Groups

The Oakdale Centre’s multi-disciplinary team of qualified and experienced practitioners work to stringent professional standards and have a variety of specialist areas of training and expertise. This means that once we have done an assessment with you we can offer the service best suited to your particular needs.

Our practitioners include. . .

• Counsellors
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Couples Counsellors
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapists
• Drama, Art, Music and Play Therapists
• Child and Family Psychotherapists
• Psychiatrists

They are all. . .

• Appropriately qualified
• Experienced
• Professionally registered

Meet our Team

The Oakdale Centre offers a wide range of psychological therapies including:

• Counselling
• Integrative Psychotherapy
• Transactional Analysis (TA)
• Gestalt Therapy
• Systemic Family Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)
• Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
• Psychologist assessment and treatment
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Couples Counselling
• Psychosexual Therapy
• Creative Therapies (including drama, art, music and play therapy)
• Mindfulness Groups
• Mindfulness in Schools
• Filial Therapy
• Theraplay
• Improving Sensory Processing
• Building Underdeveloped Sensorimotor Systems (BUSS)
• Educational Psychology
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
• Brain Mapping
• Solution Focussed Brief Therapy
• Therapeutic Parenting
• Non Violent Resistance (NVR)

Most of the Oakdale Centre’s services are provided face-to-face, but we also offer sessions on the telephone, online and using video calls. If you would like to explore these alternative options further, please ask about this when you contact us.

The Oakdale Centre provides additional services such as training, CPD courses and professional supervision. Please see our Courses & Supervision section to find out more.

The Oakdale Centre is a not for profit organisation. Fees vary according to the particular practitioner and the service being provided. We occasionally offer low fee sessions.

Many of our practitioners are registered with medical insurance companies and sometimes employers are willing to support their staff with therapy costs.

We provide free telephone assessments for anyone who would like to find out more about the Oakdale Centre and what service would be appropriate for them.

If you have private health insurance, your insurer may agree to fund your therapy. Get in touch with your health insurer to find out if you are eligible for this.

Some of our practitioners hold specialist recognition with several health insurance companies. These are listed below:

• AVIVA
• AXA PPP
• BUPA
• CIGNA
• SIMPLY HEALTH
• WPA

If your insurance company is not listed above then you can contact them direct to see if they can fund your treatment with us.

The Oakdale Centre has a large child and family department including child and adolescent psychology and psychotherapy including play and creative therapies and family therapy. We are able to work with couples, families and individual family members. We liaise with schools as required and can provide specialist assessments and ongoing support.

Complex Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

We are an experienced provider of trauma focused therapies.

We bring together qualified mental health professionals from many disciplines such as: Systemic Family Psychotherapy, Body Oriented Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, CBT, EMDR, Person-Centred Therapy and Focusing Oriented Therapy. What brings us together is that we utilise experiential trauma recovery tools in the treatment of single or complex trauma.

Critical Incident support

The Oakdale Centre has specific expertise in supporting individuals and organisations dealing with complex trauma. We offer a range of options, onsite, to support you and your staff throughout a critical incident.

We provide:

• Onsite response from qualified counsellors and psychological professionals
• Guidance and support with communications and policy development
• Support to client groups onsite i.e. school pupils or workplace staff
• Guidance to senior leadership teams, supporting them to manage their response to a critical incident