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# Berkshire Psychology Service

Help with Mental Health in Reading, Berkshire

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- [BBC radio Berkshire hosts Dr David Purves talking about personality](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2017/01/31/bbc-radio-berkshire-hosts-dr-david-purves-talking-about-personality/) - There are vast forests of research papers showing several important things about personality that it’s useful to be aware of. The first is that conscientiousness is a personality characteristic consistent with better health and a longer life. And the second is that neuroticism is a personality characteristic that is predictive of poorer health, psychological problems and shorter life. It is thought that the link between neuroticism and poorer life experiences is this. If you are anxious, a worrier or pessimistic then you are more prone to catastrophise. This really means that as well as being a glass half empty kind of person, you are also prone to extending your anxieties and worries out before you like a carpet of potential woes upon which to walk as you journey through life; making every step a bit harder than it needs be. The research I wrote about last week illustrated that the damaging personality trait of neuroticism is something that can be changed through psychotherapy. In the Berkshire Psychology Service I emphasize that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a focused way of uncovering the damaging beliefs that create and maintain anxiety and low mood. While also providing tools to challenge and change them into more useful and adaptive beliefs. Hence the negative carpet gets rolled up and put away. Making it easier walking through life.
- [A technology that changes your personality](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2017/01/27/a-technology-that-changes-your-personality/) - Imagine that someone invented a technology that changed your personality, in only a few weeks. There could well be uproar on social media and even questions asked in Parliament. Would it even be ethical, many people would ask? Well it has happened and it is pretty amazing. It’s called psychotherapy!
- [Retraining your amygdala](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2017/01/18/retraining-your-amygdala/) - Research shows that CBT strengthens connections between parts of the brain responsible for schizophrenia and depression and can reduce symptoms.
- [Dr Purves says find the gap between you and your emotional experiences](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2017/01/20/dr-purves-says-find-the-gap-between-you-and-your-emotional-experiences/) - You are not your experience. You don't change very fast but your experience does. When we struggle with psychological problems like depression, anxiety and panic we often lose sight of the space between our emotions and the events of the world. We assume that our feelings are a genuine representation of reality. emotions are not a very good guide to reality at all.
- [Assume you have no will power](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/11/29/assume-you-have-no-will-power/)
- [How to boost self esteem](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/11/22/how-to-boost-self-esteem/) - Dr David Purves the Reading based psychologist and CBT therapist created this video and transcript to show you how you can boost low self esteem and stop it ruining your life.
- [CBT for depression treatment](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/11/07/cbt-for-depression-treatment/) - Reading based CBT therapist Dr David Purves uses CBT to treat depression.
- [JackFM radio interview about The Panic Pit Stop App](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/10/09/jackfm-radio-interview-about-the-panic-pit-stop-app/) - Dr Purves gave a radio interview to JackFM as part of World Mental Health Day
- [Get-help](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/10/10/get-help/) - Dr David Purves of Berkshire Psychology Service offers a great FREE app to help you help yourself. Its called Panic Pit Stop
- [Here is why Donald Trump just doesn't get it.](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/10/13/here-is-why-donald-trump-just-doesnt-get-it/) - The way you talk is a window into your inner world. Donald Trump is letting us into his inner world without realizing it.
- [How does CBT work?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/10/31/how-does-cbt-work/) - Berkshire Psychology Service Director Dr David Purves is a highly experienced CBT therapist and in anxiety therapy and depression treatment he focuses on correcting negative beliefs.
- [The Panic Pit Stop Workshop](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2016/09/12/the-panic-pit-stop-workshop/) - Dr David Purves the creator of the Panic Pit Stop App is offering a one-off workshop to give you the tools to overcome panic, worry and anxiety.
- [Berkshire Psychology Service](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/2012/01/04/hello-world/) - The Berkshire Psychology Service delivers a private Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Service to the region. CBT is a modern, efficient and effective form of psychological treatment for psychological problems.

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- [Berkshire Psychology Service](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/) - The Berkshire Psychology Service provides independent psychology, counselling, psychotherapy and CBT Therapy for the Reading, Berkshire area, led by Dr David Purves.
- [Funding of CBT](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/funding-of-cbt/) - There are many ways to fund your CBT treatment. if you have private health insurance then this will often cover the cost of treatment. Many clients self fund and that is often very affordable. Why not contact Dr Purves and talk it through. CBT is a great investment in your future.
- [Are you looking for CBT Therapy in Reading, Berkshire?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/are-you-looking-for-cbt-therapy-in-reading-berkshire/) - Dr David Purves delivers Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT therapy to the Reading, Berkshire region. If you’re suffering with anxiety, depression or stress then you might benefit from CBT therapy.
- [Contact](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/contact/) - If you would like to know more about CBT therapy or Counselling in Reading at the Berkshire Psychology Service please contact us.
- [Dr David Purves - Psychologist and CBT Therapist in Reading, Berkshire](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/dr-david-purves/) - Clinical Director, Dr David Purves, is a psychologist in Reading, Berkshire with a first class D. Phil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford.
- [A Review of the Anxiety Wizard Program](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/a-review-of-the-panic-pit-stop-course/) - Hello, Dr. Purves! I am really enjoying and learning so much from your panic pit stop course...much more than I have ever learned in the past three years from my two previous counselors. Neither of them have come close to teaching what I have learned from your program - sad to say, in the three years I was going to see these therapists (one being an actual psychologist) not one of them ever took the time to teach me, talk with me about (at any length) any of the information that you have imparted! In fact, I was telling my husband that I now look back at all of that time spent and it seems to me that all they wanted to do was just sit and listen to me talk, while helpful, no one ever gave me any constructive framework in which to truly get better - to get well. Your course is proving to be the missing piece. Thank you. Lastly, thank you for your time and thank you for providing the help so many of us out here need!
- [Privacy Policy for the Berkshire Psychology Service](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/privacy-policy-for-the-berkshire-psychology-service/) - Privacy Policy for the Berkshire Psychology Service
- [Are you anxious for no obvious reason? Insights from the clinic #6](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/are-you-anxious-for-no-obvious-reason-insights-from-the-clinic-6/) - If you are anxious and there is no external threat, then the anxiety must be generated from inside you. Here is how it happens.
- [Insights from the clinic #5: The differences between stress, anxiety, PTSD and depression](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/insights-from-the-clinic-5-the-differences-between-stress-anxiety-ptsd-and-depression/)
- [How much does it hurt](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/how-much-does-it-hurt/)
- [Can you describe your emotions? Do you know what they mean?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/can-you-describe-your-emotions-do-you-know-what-they-mean/) - Dr Purves provides CBT in Reading. Can you describe your emotions. CBT can help you recognise what you feel and understand why you feel it.
- [CBT therapy Berkshire - How can CBT therapy help me?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/cbt-therapy-berkshire-how-can-cbt-therapy-help-me/) - What can you expect from CBT therapy? Well therapy of any type is there to help you deal with distress and issues you've been unable to overcome on your own.
- [Insights From The Clinic #4](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/insights-from-the-clinic-4/) - Rules are necessary, But if you think you know the rules but you don't then things can be confusing. The rules of consciousness are different from those of external reality but we often assume they are the same. Depression and anxiety are conditions in which we are prone to forget this fact. Therefore to recover from depression and anxiety we need to practice remembering that rules are not always universal and fixed.
- [Insights From The Clinic #3 Who Is Inside You?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/insights-from-the-clinic-3-who-is-inside-you/)
- [Insights From The Clinic #2](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/insights-from-the-clinic-2/) - This video is #2 in the series. It reveals in simple terms how damaging it can be to carry hurts and emotional baggage with you through life. Every psychological problem you face has an element of hurt in there. You protect your hurt and you stop it from contaminating the rest of your personality but in so doing you also stop the hurt from being challenged and changed. If you never look you never see and in this instance ignorance is not bliss it is continuing pain and strife.
- [Insights from the clinic #1](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/insights-from-the-clinic-1/) - Insights from the clinic #2 Have you ever wondered why relationships are hard? Dr David Purves is a psychologist specializing in treating anxiety and depressive disorders. His clients are amazing people who teach him how to understand and treat anxiety, panic, worry, OCD and depression. Insights from the clinic reveals the knowledge and experience gained from over 20 years of effective clinical work. These video insights reveal the secrets of the psychotherapy clinic. This video is #1 in the series. It tells you the simple yet profound truth about anxiety.
- [Mindfulness tools for stress](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/mindfulness-tools-for-stress/) - Stress is an option. I imagine that you are thinking to yourself...really can you be serious? I didn't choose to be stressed or anxious. I don't choose to worry. And of course you don't! But neither do you choose the alternative. You don't choose not to be stressed. You don't choose not to be anxious or to worry. You do spend time trying to manage it as best you can and this is usually by trying not to think about it, trying to avoid it and of course toughing it out.
- [Anxiety Busting for 2017: How To Manage Your Amygdala](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/anxiety-busting-for-2017-how-to-manage-your-amygdala/) - This should be of interest to anyone who has any sort of problem with anxiety or stress. In the brain, the amygdala that labels events as worthy of fear or not. It is the amygdala that is responsible for giving you that rush of adrenaline when there is nothing obvious to be fearful of. It is the amygdala that makes you anxious, panic and be stressed. You should be very keen to manage your amygdala as best you can, lest it give you something genuinely serious and life threatening to worry about like a heart attack! Worry, anxiety and panic always start as a heightened perception of threat, whether conscious or unconscious and it is the little amygdala that determines if something is to be labelled a threat or not. The behaviour or all life is based on approaching what is useful and life sustaining and avoiding what is dangerous. The success of this relies on a rapid and accurate approach-avoidance system. The organism can afford to mistake something that is beneficial as a threat as often as it likes but it cannot afford to mislabel a genuine threat as safe even once. We are all the benefactors of the efficiency of this system.
- [How does cognitive behaviour therapy work (CBT)?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/how-does-cognitive-behaviour-therapy-work-cbt/) - Dr Purves a reading based CBT therapist and Psychologist explains the most important aspect of CBT treatment. CBT is evidence based and effective in anxiety therapy and depression treatment.
- [Road Traffic Accidents](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/road-traffic-accidents/) - PTSD is a common consequence of road traffic accidents. Dr Purves explains how he treats this problem and why treatment is often successful.
- [The warning signs of depression](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/the-warning-signs-of-depression/) - Reading-based CBT therapist Dr David Purves describes the warning signs of depression then offers a tool you can use to fight negative thoughts.
- [What is anxiety?](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/what-is-anxiety/) - Reading and Berkshire based psychologist Dr David Purves explains what anxiety is and how it comes into being. He then explains how to stop anxiety and depression.
- [The important role of balance for your well-being](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/the-important-role-of-balance-for-your-well-being/) - Psychological balance can be developed and is an important element in a healthy life. This video explains more.
- [Dr David Purves: A little about my journey](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/dr-david-purves-a-little-about-my-journey/) - Dr David Purves produced this video to help you learn more about him and help you decide if you want to contact him about being your therapist.
- [One of those big questions](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/one-of-those-big-questions/) - Reading Based Psychologist Dr David Purves proposes that the increase in poor mental health can be better managed. And individuals can help themselves more than they would imagine.
- [How to be free of depression and anxiety](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/how-to-be-free-of-depression-and-anxiety/) - Reading Based Psychologist Dr David Purves gives you the precise steps to remove depression and anxiety from your life.
- [Active Self Help](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/active-self-help/) - When you know how to help yourself you are more than half way on the journey away from anxiety and depression.
- [Three things to give up to be happy: Part 3](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/three-things-to-give-up-to-be-happy-part-3/) - Dr Purves from The Berkshire Psychology Service explains how to be happier by giving up self destructive and non-productive bad habits.
- [Three things to give up to be happy part 2](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/three-things-to-give-up-to-be-happy-part-2/) - Giving up being self critical is a great step you can use to enhance your happiness.
- [Insights on being happy](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/insights-on-being-happy/) - Berkshire based Psychologist Dr David Purves has created a series of videos on what to give up to be happier in life.
- [How to make CBT work for you](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/how-to-make-cbt-work-for-you/) - Dr David Purves has provided this e-book on how to enhance your understanding of CBT and how to ensure it works better for you.
- [CBT Counselling for Anxiety](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/19-2/) - CBT Counselling is an effective anxiety therapy. CBT delivers a comprehensive strategy for challenging your sense of threat to help you feel safe and secure once again.
- [Post Traumatic Stress](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/post-traumatic-stress/) - One possible consequence of trauma is what has come to be called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.) Find out if you have PTSD.
- [Depression Treatment](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/depression-treatment/) - If you feel sad, fed up or miserable for longer than a few weeks then you may be starting to move into depression and need to seek depression treatment
- [Five barriers to using self help](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/berkshire-psychology-service/five-barriers-to-using-self-help/) - Find the barriers to using self help and remove them so you can eradicate depression and anxiety from your life
- [Dr David Purves delivers CBT therapy in Reading](http://www.berkshirepsychologyservice.com/dr-david-purves-delivers-cbt-therapy-in-reading/) - Dr David Purves delivers cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), based in Reading but providing CBT therapy cover for the whole of the Berkshire. Dr Purves is an accredited Psychologist and cognitive behaviour therapy practitioner. He also specialises in EMDR for the treatment of trauma and PTSD.

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