Helping people and workplaces flourish.
Flourish Psychological Services provides a range of psychological services to individual adult clients, as well as corporate clients and mental health professionals.
Our individual treatments are offered face to face, online or via the telephone for your convenience. We offer several evidence‑based therapies, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR). The approach we use will depend on what you’re struggling with and what’s most likely to help you feel better. Together, we’ll choose the type of therapy that matches your needs and goals.
Sessions are offered online and from a convenient venue a short distance from Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire. The clinic setting is ideally located and easily accessible from North Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Mansfield, Gainsborough, Grantham, Retford, Worksop and surrounds. The clinic venue has on site, free parking. Appointments can be available outside of office hours for your convenience.
Dr Toft has supported adults through a wide range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the impact of traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse and domestic violence. She also works with people navigating bereavement and loss and work-related difficulties such as redundancy and trauma in the workplace. Her approach is steady, compassionate and grounded in years of clinical experience.
We support organisations by providing practical, evidence-based mental health services designed to improve staff wellbeing and reduce stress-related absence. We offer bespoke mental health workshops, individual psychological therapy for employees, organisation-wide mental health awareness and specialist support following workplace trauma or critical incidents. Our services are tailored to your organisation’s needs, whether you want to enhance your manager’s understanding of mental health difficulties, or you want to ensure your employees have access to professional help when they need it most. We can work with you to create a solution that fits your team and your goals.
We offer two key services for mental health professionals, built on experience and collaboration. Clinical supervision provides a space to reflect on your therapeutic work, strengthen your practice and feel supported in the challenges that come with clinical work. Mentoring and consultation offer guidance for developing or enhancing your private practice – whether you’re starting out, or looking to grow with confidence and clarity.
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Individual Therapy
Here at Flourish, we offer 1:1 psychological (or talking therapy) to adults, either face to face from our clinic a short distance from Newark-on-Trent, or alternatively via telephone, or using a number of online platforms including Zoom, Whatsapp, FaceTime, etc.
Corporate Services
Mental health problems affect 1 in 6 British workers each year and mental health difficulties are the leading cause of absence from work. We recognise that for each of our corporate clients, looking after their employees wellbeing is a vital part of their business success and as such we provide a wide range of services to corporate clients.
Mental Health Professionals
Being able to bounce ideas off someone who has been there and done it, is a great way of developing our own expertise, whether this is clinically, or moving into private practice. Sarah has a long history of providing clinical supervision to qualified and trainee mental health professionals and finds this an immensely enjoyable part of her role.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach, used to address a number of psychological issues, including depression and anxiety; phobias and performance anxiety, but is perhaps best known for its application in trauma/PTSD.
When someone experiences a traumatic or distressing event, psychological difficulties can occur if the event overwhelms our usual ability to cope and it is unable to be ‘processed’ or ‘filed’ in the person’s memory in the normal manner. This means that when the event is recalled, or something triggers a reminder, the person can feel they are re-living all of the feelings, tastes, smells, sounds, etc.,…
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is perhaps one of the most well-known and well-researched of the psychological treatments and can be used with a wide range of conditions, including; depression, anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder, stress, phobias, etc.
CBT combines cognitive therapy, that is, how you think, with behavioural therapy, how you act or behave. A central feature of CBT is the idea that a person’s behaviour or response in a situation is determined by their interpretation of it and that how someone feels is determined by their thoughts, beliefs and actions. CBT presumes that our thoughts, feelings and behaviour are linked.
In CBT the meaning taken…
