What is CBT?

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence based therapy for common mental health difficulties. CBT looks at the relationship between our thoughts, emotions, behaviours and physical symptoms.  Our thoughts and behaviours often maintain your problem, keeping us trapped in the vicious cycle. CBT helps to break this vicious cycle by learning to manage our thought processes and put into place more helpful behaviours/coping strategies.  By changing our thoughts and behaviours this will impact our emotions and physical symptoms, reducing overwhelming feelings and your improving day to day functioning.

 

In therapy, we will work together to break down your problems into the separate parts, we will look at these parts together to identify what is maintaining your difficulties. We can then use and then apply CBT techniques to overcome difficulties and reduce emotional intensity. In my practice I aim to provide you with the skills to independently manage your difficulties in the here and now, but also to explore how you may use the CBT skills learnt to manage any future difficulties. CBT skills are lifelong skills if regularly practiced and integrated into your daily living.