How We Treat

Truth, Acceptance, Gratitude, Love & Responsibility

VillaRamadas-GGZ provides many forms of therapy from very differing fields of psychology and personal development including the Change & Grow® model of treatment, created by Dr. Eduardo Ramadas da Silva over 20 years in treatment centres in the UK, Portugal, Netherlands and Bulgaria. The Change & Grow® Model is basis in five principals: Truth, Acceptance, Gratitude, Love and Responsibility.

The aim is for the client to break with destructive obsessions that have lead to poor life choices. We are focused on introducing clients to a programme that will allow them to develop a healthy and positive attitude towards life. We help to develop the client’s ability to strengthen their acceptance of all that is happening to them on a daily, relearning how to live in a serene and balanced way by influencing their life choice.

As we provide a client-focused programme the mix will depend on the clients requirements, which are established in the assessment and re-evaluated throughout the therapeutic programme.

Eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) This therapy was developed for the treatment of trauma. A client will be led via 8 phases of the treatment relating to the past present and the development of future coping mechanisms. The client will process the traumatizing event with the associated emotions and feelings and will be able to learn what is required from the event. Thereafter the client will still remember the event but will view it in a new and less distressing way without reliving feeling and emotions. This therapy is similar to what occurs naturally during the REM cycle of sleep. Currently being used in the treatment of panic attacks, phobias, pain management, performance anxiety, stress, addictions, sexual & physical abuse together with eating disorders. Read More

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ACT is a mindfulness-based therapy that focuses on the values of forgiveness, acceptance and living in the present. It has been proven as an effective treatment in many disorders, including addiction. ACT’s purpose is to teach patients how to build a meaningful life, by accepting their reality.

Mindfulness Mindfulness involves paying active and open attention, moment-by-moment, to everything that is happening both within and around ourselves. It is characterized by acceptance – paying attention to thoughts and feelings without judging whether they are right or wrong.

Positive Psychology Positive Psychology focuses on the promotion and improvement of a client’s quality of life by highlighting their qualities, strengths and positive experiences, without denying or ignoring problems and shortcomings. It results in improved self-esteem, optimism and sense of purpose. It allows Clients to develop a sense of peace about their past and present while establishing varying degrees of optimism for the future. Read More

Family Systems Therapy Family systems therapy aims to help a client come to terms with their disorder within a broader group - including their relationships with family, friends and community. This approach highlights the importance of family or support system in recovery and beneficial effect for both clients and their family. Patients who seek treatment on their own often return to the old dysfunctional patterns of interaction (relapse). Some of the benefits of family systems therapy include: deeper understanding and empathy for others, improved problem solving skills, better family functioning and more effective communication. Read More

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that maintain a clients disorder. This disorder may be food related, depression or addiction. The resulting problem solving style therapy allows, patients to learn and apply new strategies for dealing with and or breaking negative patterns. CBT is applied in individual sessions. Read More

Solution Focused Therapy Solution focused therapy allows the therapist in individual therapy to construct with the client specific strategies for an individuals issues. This type of therapy is based on a brief and targeted therapeutic that produces consistent and lasting behavioral changes. This is achieved by changing perception and meaning a client has of a specific problem.

Personal Development A social skill training (SST) is a form of therapy used to help clients who have difficulties relating to others. Social skill training helps clients to understand social and emotional signals. This therapy is based on the assumption that when Clients improve their social skills or change selected behaviours, they will raise their self-esteem and increase the likelihood that others will respond favourably to them. Read More

Psycho-education Psycho-education consists of giving clients information and explaining the process of their disorder in general. The purpose is to educate the client and give them a deeper understanding of the true extent of the consequences of destructive behaviour. This therapy is key is developing subsequent intervention as a client fully understands their disorder. Read More

Change & Grow® It is the Therapeutic Model created by Dr. Eduardo Ramadas da Silva, Founder of VillaRamadas-GGZ, VillaRamadas Privé and VillaRamadas. It was developed over 20 years as a direct response to the changing nature of the clients that he was treating. The established programmes were out of date for the new patterns of disorder. The resulting model of treatment is based on elements of the current humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, a.c.t, mindfulness, positive psychology, gestalt and n.l.p. approaches and its key element is to break a client denial and consequently accept the negative consequences of their disorder(s). Focusing on solutions and similarities (as opposed to problems and differences) Change & Grow® highlights the positive elements that promote union, empathy and identification independent of the type of disorder. The aim is that a client cannot feel alone. They are not different. It promotes personal development and self-help, while making people assume responsibility for their own choices and consequences. Therapy is guided in group and individual therapy using the Five principles of Change and Grow®, The steps of Change and Grow® and the resulting Promises of Change and Grow®. Read More

Steps of Change & Grow® Step Work relies on the Twelve Steps of Change & Grow®. Twelve Steps aims to help people in the their process of personal development, independent of the type of addiction, without feeling the need to control others or situations. It is based on a programme of self-discovery and self-awareness. It values client’s positive qualities and competences thereby promoting empathy and a sense of union. Read More

Personal Reading and Writing Assignments Personal reading it is a very important investment that the client is encourage to do because will have also a strong and positive impact to change the way the client thinks and behave. Writing specific assignments will help the client to reflect about his or her behaviours and therefore be conscience and willing to change. Reading and Writing is a personal development task. The themes may come from topics identified in individual therapy. They may also be from behaviour highlighted by the Clinical Team. Read More