Listed below are some of the more commonly used counselling models of therapy.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – CBT is a practical therapy, it explores the client's cognitions, (thought processes), so that the client may understand how these thoughts impact upon their emotions and inform their behaviour. CBT is all about breaking negative cycles of thought and behaviour. CBT has been found to be useful in helping clients who are experiencing anxiety and depression.
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Psychodynamic Therapy – Psychodynamic Therapy is centred around unconscious processes and unresolved conflict. This therapy looks into such areas as a client's early childhood, and relationship(s) with primary care giver(s).
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Humanistic Therapy – Humanistic therapy is focused on the client's self-exploration and the client’s own ability to find solutions to their own problems. Person Centred Therapy is one of the most commonly used humanistic therapies.

Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT) – CAT integrates CBT and Psychanalytic theory. CAT explores how you manage your relationships and cope with feelings or difficult situations. This will involve identifying patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. When a client presents with a target problem (for example self-harm), CAT identifies how a target problem is established and maintained. CAT recognises three main patterns of problems known as Traps, Dilemmas and Snags. From this the CAT therapist will use CAT interventions to help the client overcome the problem.
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) – DBT is often used with people who experience Borderline Personality Disorder, (BPD). However, not all clients receiving DBT have BPD. DBT is useful in helping clients who have experienced emotional problems and self-harming behaviour. DBT is very good at helping people tolerate by helping clients improve the regulation of their emotions.
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Gestalt Therapy – Gestalt therapy helps people integrate conflicting parts of their personality leading to increased self-awareness and self-acceptance. This carried out by focusing on the present moment and the individual's experience. It's a humanistic therapy that helps people understand how they relate to others, and how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours affect them.
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Mindfulness – Mindfulness is the practice of acknowledging what you are feeling without judging the emotions and sensations. Mindfulness helps distract attention from stress or negative thoughts, it can help support good mental health. Mindfulness may be integrated into other therapies such as CBT to reduce a recurrence of symptoms such as depression and anxiety. Mindfulness techniques can be included in the therapy to help reduce stress, helping facilitate a more focused interaction with the therapist.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). - ACT is a mindfulness-based model of behavioural psychotherapy. ACT uses three processes that the therapist uses in the therapy. 1. Acceptance – opening and exploring  thoughts and feelings that the client believes they have no control over. 2. Connecting with the present – Pivots from regrets of the past, worries about the future, to the current situation with objectivity and new perspectives. 3. Do what matters – Live according to your values and act in the direction of who you want to be.