Therapy Services for Individuals, Couples, and Families

Welcome to Crawford Therapy, where we offer a comprehensive range of therapeutic services designed to meet the diverse needs of individuals, couples, and families. Our dedicated team of professionals is committed to providing personalized and effective treatment approaches, ensuring that you receive the highest quality care. Whether you are seeking support for specific mental health concerns, relationship issues, or personal growth, we offer a variety of evidence-based therapies to help you achieve your goals.

Our services include:

What is Emotion-Focused Therapy?

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a research-based therapeutic approach that helps individuals and couples understand and transform their emotional experiences. EFT focuses on recognizing, expressing, and regulating emotions to promote healing, improve relationships, and foster personal growth. By helping clients identify their emotional patterns and develop new ways to respond, EFT supports emotional resilience and greater self-awareness.

Why it Helps

Many psychological difficulties are rooted in unprocessed or suppressed emotions. EFT allows individuals to access these emotions in a safe and structured environment, leading to deeper understanding and long-lasting change. It helps clients feel heard, develop compassion for themselves, and move beyond emotional blocks.

What is Existential Therapy?

Existential Therapy is a philosophical approach to psychotherapy that helps individuals explore life’s deeper questions—such as meaning, freedom, isolation, and mortality. Rather than focusing on symptoms, existential therapy encourages clients to examine their values, beliefs, and purpose. It aims to foster authentic living and personal responsibility by helping clients confront uncertainty and make empowered choices. This therapy is well suited for those navigating identity, life transitions, or existential crises.

Why it Helps

Existential Therapy helps by addressing the emotional impact of uncertainty, isolation, and the search for meaning. Rather than offering quick solutions, it supports deep self-reflection and encourages clients to live in alignment with their values. Many people find it especially beneficial when facing major life transitions, inner conflict, or a sense of emptiness. Through guided inquiry, existential therapy offers clarity, courage, and a stronger sense of self-direction.

What is Exposure Therapy?

Exposure Therapy is a structured psychological treatment designed to help individuals confront fears and anxieties in a safe and controlled environment. It gradually exposes a person to the source of their fear, either in real life or through imagination, allowing them to build confidence, reduce avoidance, and desensitize emotional reactions. It is particularly effective for phobias, PTSD, and anxiety disorders.

Why it Helps

By systematically facing feared situations rather than avoiding them, Exposure Therapy helps rewire the brain’s fear response. Over time, this reduces anxiety, increases control, and helps individuals regain a sense of safety and confidence in daily life.

What is Family Therapy?

Family Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on improving communication, resolving conflict, and strengthening relationships within the family unit. It involves two or more family members working together with a trained therapist to explore dynamics, address challenges, and develop healthier patterns of interaction. The goal is to enhance understanding, reduce tension, and foster a more supportive and connected home environment for everyone involved.

Why it Helps

Family Therapy helps by creating a safe space where all voices can be heard. It encourages open dialogue, clarifies roles, and reduces blame. Families learn to navigate conflict, build empathy, and find common ground. This collaborative approach improves not only individual wellbeing but the overall functioning of the family system. It’s particularly effective during periods of stress, transition, or persistent conflict.

What is Gender Identity Counselling?

Gender Identity Counselling provides a safe, affirming space for individuals to explore their gender, identity, and self-expression. It supports clients in understanding their experience of gender, whether they are questioning, transitioning, or seeking clarity in a non-judgmental environment. The process is client-led, affirming diverse identities and lived experiences without pathologizing them. This form of therapy can also help individuals navigate social, medical, or relational aspects of their journey.

Why it Helps

Gender Identity Counselling helps reduce isolation, confusion, and emotional distress related to gender exploration. It offers validation and support during what can often be a complex or vulnerable time. Whether navigating internal questions or external challenges like discrimination, coming out, or family dynamics, therapy helps build resilience, clarity, and a stronger sense of self-worth.

What is Grief Counselling?

Grief counselling is a therapeutic process that helps individuals navigate the emotional, psychological and practical challenges of loss. Whether due to the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a serious diagnosis or a life-altering event, grief can affect all areas of life. This form of therapy offers a compassionate and structured space to process those feelings, understand the stages of grief, and find meaning and hope after loss.

Why it Helps

Grief can be overwhelming and isolating. Counselling provides validation, emotional support and coping strategies, helping people to integrate their loss into life in a healthy way. It allows clients to honour their feelings, find new routines, and eventually move forward with peace and purpose.