Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a short-term evidence-based therapy that explores the links between the way we think, feel and behave. It encourages patients to identify and challenge thoughts that are unhelpful, and to notice and challenge or change unhelpful behaviour patterns that can lead to feelings of anxiety, tension or low mood. CBT is recommended by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) the treatment of choice for a variety of problems including anxiety, depression, panic, phobias (including struggling to go out, socialise and social anxiety), stress, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and psychosis. CBT may also help if you have difficulties with regulating yourself through anger, self-esteem or physical health problems, like pain, tension or fatigue.
CBT can help you to change how you think (‘Cognitive’) and what you do (‘Behaviour’). These changes can help you to feel like yourself again. Unlike counselling, it focuses on the ‘current’ problems and difficulties.
My service can help you to learn to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. This makes it easier to see how they are connected and how they affect you such as the diagram below
CBT can help you manage unhelpful ways of reacting to situations because in most cases how you feel depends on how you think about it. These ways can be helpful or unhelpful.