What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behaviour therapy is helpful to address mild to moderate anxiety and depression. If you are experiencing any of the challenges below please complete the contact form to discuss treatment:
Anxiety
Obsessive compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Panic
Health Anxiety
Social anxiety
Phobias
Depression
Post traumatic Stress disorder (Trauma)
In CBT we are interested in identifying what you think and how you react/respond to your thoughts, What do you do when an unhelpful thought appears? How do you behave? and how do the thoughts and behaviours together affect the mood/emotion.
What habit(s) have been formed that continue to trigger the anxiety or symptoms of depression.
For example: If someone is invited to a Wedding and is experiencing overwhelming anxiety. We need to understand what is happening for the client. I have put together an example to illustrate what we will be working together to identify.
Situation; Invited to attend a wedding
Thoughts : 'I will not cope if I go to the wedding, there will be far too many people present. I don't know these people that well. I will make a fool of myself'
Emotions created by these thoughts: fear and anxiety
Body: hot, tense, sweaty
Behaviour: cancel at the last minute, avoid going
The key is to identify how the event was being perceived. When thoughts go unchecked and we assume we know what will happen and then develop strategies to try to avoid the perceived threat. The act of avoiding will only lead to isolation and reinforce the unhelpful thoughts. This individual will not know what could have happened if they had attended, thus preventing any new learning from occurring,
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