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 Parenting Support?

Parenting Support is a therapeutic service designed to help parents navigate the complexities of raising children in today’s world. It offers guidance, emotional support, and practical tools to build stronger relationships with children and manage everyday challenges with confidence. Whether you are a first-time parent, co-parenting after separation, or raising a neurodiverse child, Parenting Support can help create a more connected and harmonious family environment.

Why it Helps

Parenting Support provides a safe, non-judgmental space to explore parenting concerns and develop new strategies that align with your family values. It empowers parents to better understand their child's developmental needs and emotional world, while also addressing their own stress and emotional regulation. This support can reduce conflict, increase confidence, and promote healthier family dynamics.

What is Person-Centred Therapy?

Person-Centred Therapy is a humanistic approach that places the client at the heart of the therapeutic process. Developed by Carl Rogers, it emphasizes empathy, unconditional positive regard, and authenticity. The therapist provides a non‑judgmental space that fosters trust and openness, allowing the client to explore thoughts and feelings freely. This approach believes that individuals have the capacity for growth and healing when given the right conditions.

Why it Helps

Person-Centred Therapy helps by creating a safe and compassionate space where clients can connect with their authentic selves. Rather than diagnosing or directing, the therapist supports the client’s own journey of discovery and change. This method builds confidence, promotes emotional healing, and helps individuals feel genuinely understood and valued.

What is Psychodynamic Therapy?

Psychodynamic Therapy is a form of talk therapy that focuses on exploring unconscious patterns rooted in childhood experiences. It helps clients understand how these patterns influence present behaviour, emotions, and relationships. Through a therapeutic relationship built on trust and insight, clients can uncover repressed feelings and unresolved conflicts that may be contributing to distress. This long-established therapeutic approach fosters deep self-awareness and emotional healing.

Why it Helps

Psychodynamic Therapy helps individuals make meaningful changes by addressing the underlying causes of emotional struggles, rather than just the symptoms. By gaining insight into unconscious motivations, clients can break free from unhelpful patterns, improve their relationships, and experience greater emotional freedom. It is especially helpful for those dealing with longstanding issues, such as depression, anxiety, or low self-worth.

What is Psychoeducation?

Psychoeducation is a therapeutic approach that provides individuals, couples, or families with information and skills to better understand and manage mental health conditions, emotional challenges, and relational difficulties. It combines education and therapeutic guidance to help clients make informed decisions, reduce distress, and improve coping strategies. Psychoeducation can be delivered one-on-one, in group settings, or as part of a broader therapy plan.

Why it Helps

Psychoeducation empowers individuals by demystifying mental health challenges and promoting a sense of control. By understanding the biological, psychological, and social factors involved, clients become better equipped to recognize symptoms, respond effectively, and reduce stigma. This knowledge-based approach promotes recovery, resilience, and healthier relationships.

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, is a collaborative treatment approach that helps individuals explore and address emotional, psychological, and behavioral difficulties. It involves conversations with a trained therapist who provides support, guidance, and tools to foster mental well-being and personal growth. Psychotherapy can address a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, and life transitions.

Why it Helps

Psychotherapy offers a safe and confidential space for individuals to express feelings, gain insight, and develop coping skills. By exploring thoughts and behaviors, clients can better understand themselves and their patterns, leading to improved emotional regulation, healthier relationships, and enhanced problem-solving abilities. This support often reduces distress and promotes lasting change.

What is Schema Therapy?

Schema Therapy is an integrative form of psychotherapy that combines elements of cognitive-behavioural, attachment, Gestalt, and psychodynamic approaches. It targets deeply rooted emotional and behavioral patterns—called “schemas”—developed in early life, which continue to influence thoughts, feelings, and relationships. By identifying and healing these maladaptive schemas, therapy helps individuals break long-standing self-defeating cycles and build healthier emotional foundations.

Why it Helps

Schema Therapy helps by addressing the origins of persistent emotional issues instead of only treating symptoms. People with chronic anxiety, relationship conflicts, or self-sabotage often benefit from understanding and transforming early life patterns. This approach offers clarity, emotional healing, and practical tools to replace unhealthy schemas with healthier, adaptive ways of thinking, feeling, and relating.