How do I describe Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ( or CBT as it’s often called), focuses our therapy time on getting to the route of the problem, our brain! Specifically, our thoughts, of which we can have over 70,000 in a day! Our thoughts like many of our day-to-day routines become automatic. We often don’t even realise what we have been thinking, as we go about our day-to-day lives, all we do recognise is our emotions.

CBT focuses on understanding our emotions, through recognising the thoughts that brought on the emotion. Our thoughts can often come from lived experience, or from assumptions we make about situations, people, or in some cases rules we have learned in life to keep us feeling safe.

CBT will help you to analyse your thoughts, recognise unhelpful thinking patterns, teach you techniques to challenge your negative automatic thoughts and help to create clarity in your thinking styles.

Through clarity in thinking, we will create change in patterns of behaviours that are unhelpful, or unwanted.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can be used and is the recommended treatment for :

Social Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety, Health Anxiety, Phobias, Panic Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Depression, Stress Management, Low Self Esteem, Perfectionism and Hoarding Disorder.