Meet Sarah O’Callaghan: CBT and EMDR Accredited Psychotherapist
Sarah is a qualified and accredited CBT and EMDR Therapist. As founder of The Harton Practice, she is passionate about creating a community of accessible therapy for all. without constraints or one-size-fits-all approaches to therapy. Sarah has worked both in the NHS and private practice in a broad range of areas from learning disabilities to forensic mental health, children’s eating disorders to community mental health. Sarah works with a wide variety of presentations including trauma, anxiety, OCD, stress and burnout, low self esteem and social anxiety among others. She works on an individual basis supporting people with therapy that suits them, including working integratively across a range of therapeutic approaches.
She also has additional training in supporting with parental burnout, low self esteem and perfectionism.
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CBT can help you understand how trauma and anxiety can shape the way you think, feel and behave in your day-to-day life. Together, we can explore unhelpful patterns that may be maintaining distress and develop practical strategies to help you feel more confident and in control.
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By recognising the thoughts, behaviours, pressures and emotions that contribute to stress and burnout, CBT can help you move forwards. We can identify what is maintaining these patterns and develop coping strategies alongside practical tools to help reduce your stress levels and improve your wellbeing.
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Social anxiety is often linked to unhelpful thoughts around self-confidence, social settings and feelings of uncomfortableness. CBT can help you develop new patterns and behaviours to practice when these thoughts arise, allowing you to feel more comfortable and less self-conscious in social situations.
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During EMDR therapy, the therapist helps the client recall traumatic memories while providing bilateral stimulation, typically through guided eye movements. The therapist supports the client in processing these memories safely, reducing emotional distress, and integrating the experiences more adaptively.
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EMDR helps the brain process distressing or traumatic memories that may still feel overwhelming and be impacting your daily life. Through EMDR therapy, we can work on reducing the emotional intensity of these memories so they feel more manageable and less disruptive.
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People with parental burnout describe feelings of a heavy mental and emotional load, overwhelm, self-pressure and exhaustion. Therapy can help address these feelings by identifying underlying causes and patterns, and develop more sustainable coping mechanisms. We can work together to help you feel more supported in these areas.
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CBT and EMDR therapy can work together very effectively. CBT helps you understand and work with current thought patterns and behaviours, while EMDR can support the processing of past experiences that may still be influencing how you feel in your daily life. Sarah is accredited in both therapies and can develop an approach that is flexible and tailored to your needs.