What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a form of talking therapy that has been proven to help with a wide range of emotional and physical health difficulties. It is an evidence-based therapy and is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for treatment of many mental health issues, such as Depression, Anxiety and many other disorders.

In therapy we will work together to help you understand yourself better, and make better sense of what is troubling you with a view to improving your life and the way you feel. Therapy and CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) provide a way of working with problems that can help people who are experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties. What people think about a situation or event can affect how they feel and how they behave. This is the basis of CBT.

During times of mental distress, people think differently about themselves and what happens to them. Thoughts can often become extreme and unhelpful. This can worsen how a person feels. They may then behave in a way that prolongs their distress. CBT helps people identify and change their unhelpful thinking patterns and actions, often resulting in a major improvement in how they feel.

How does CBT work

How we think about a situation affects how we act or behave. In turn how we behave or act can affect how we think and feel, and through therapy, the therapist and client collaboratively work together in changing behaviours, or thinking patterns, or both of these. CBT therapy sessions tend to last for approximately one hour (50 mins in duration) weekly, before moving to fortnightly as the treatment progresses.

It is a time limited therapy, and is mainly concerned with how you think and act now. However, the therapy may also look at your past and consider how past experiences may be impacting on the way in which you interpret situations and events now. The principles learnt in CBT may be utilised long after therapy has ended giving you a beneficial set of techniques and strategies to help you to deal with everyday life.

Types of Problems CBT can help with:

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What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)