What is CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy)?
There are many different types of psychotherapy/counselling. They are all ways of helping people to overcome stress,
emotional problems, relationship problems or troublesome habits. What they have in common is that they are all treatments
based on talking to the Client.
CBT focuses on:
• How we think about ourselves, the world and other people.
• How what we do affects our thoughts and feelings.
CBT can help us to change how we think ("Cognitive") and what we do ("Behaviour)". These changes can help us to achieve positive
changes in our thinking.
Unlike some of the other talking treatments, CBT focuses on the "here and now" problems and difficulties, instead of their root causes.
When does CBT help?
CBT can help with many different types of problems. These include: mild stress, anxiety and depression,
phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and psychosis. CBT may also help if we have difficulties
with anger, a low opinion of ourselves, or physical health problems, like pain or fatigue.
CBT works in a very similar way to both many NLP strategies
and 'Solution Based Brief Therapy' techniques
within Hypnotherapy.
They all draw on our ability to achieve positive change.