If you feel you or your family could be helped by talking through a mental health issue, or you feel that psychotherapeutic input might be right for you, then please do get in touch.
Our clinicians are available to talk through your concerns over the phone and can advise as to whether therapeutic help might be beneficial. We offer appointments throughout the day and run evening clinics throughout the week, including Saturdays. We are also able to offer sessions via Zoom where we feel this is clinically appropriate.
Prefer to phone us first? Call us on 0131 5579894
The Anchor Practice provides evidence-based therapies for children, adolescents, and adults, focusing on emotional and relational well-being. These include attachment-based, CBT, integrative, and psychodynamic approaches tailored to individual needs.
Psychodynamic Child Therapy helps children and young people work through emotional distress by making sense of feelings and relationships that may be hard to put into words.
Psychodynamic Adult Therapy is a depth-based approach that explores how past experiences, relationships, and unconscious patterns shape current feelings, symptoms, and difficulties.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a structured, practical therapy that focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours interact to maintain distress.
Family Therapy focuses on relationships rather than individuals, helping families understand patterns of interaction that contribute to distress.
Art Therapy is a form of psychological therapy that uses creative processes to support emotional expression, understanding, and change.
Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for children helps young people develop the ability to understand their own feelings and thoughts, and those of others.
Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) for adults focuses on strengthening the ability to understand one’s own mental states and those of others, particularly during moments of emotional stress.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured psychological therapy designed to help people process distressing or traumatic experiences.
Parent–Infant Psychotherapy focuses on the emotional relationship between a parent and their baby or very young child.
The Open Door Approach to Parenting Teenagers (APT) is a brief, manualised intervention designed to support parents of adolescents (typically 11–21) who are feeling stuck, stressed, or worried about their relationship with their teenager.