cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on:-

• How you think about yourself, the world and other people
• How what you do affects your thoughts and feelings.

CBT can help you to change how you think (“Cognitive”) and what you do (“Behaviour)”. These changes can help you to feel better. Unlike some of the other talking treatments, it focuses on the “here and now” problems and difficulties. Instead of focussing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve your state of mind now.

It can be successful in treating:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Panic
- Phobias
- Social Anxiety
- Bulimia
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia

Emotional difficulties can arise from self-destructive ways of feeling, thinking and behaving. You may misinterpret situations or symptoms in a negative manner.  This can lower your mood and in turn lead to further negative thoughts and a worsening of your situation.  The therapist helps you to identify connections between the things you say to yourself, and how these thoughts affect how you feel and behave.

CBT treatment almost always involves completion of homework exercises between sessions and a committment on the part of the patient to complete this work is essential for the treatment to be fully effective.

In appropriate cases, CBT is a highly effective and rapid therapy, to find out more contact us now!