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What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy?

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy teaches us how to understand the relationship between incoming thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. By distinguishing between our thoughts and feelings and challenging our thoughts, we allow our feelings to change.

How we THINK "cognitive" about events has a powerful influence on how we FEEL about them and then what we DO ("behaviour") about them. It focuses to improve the "here and now"
and moving forward, rather than emphasising the causes of distress or symptoms of the past.

CBT has become a clinically and research proven breakthrough in mental health care.
Hundreds of studies by research psychologists and pyschiatrists make it clear why CBT has become the preferred treatment for conditions such as:

  • All stress related issues....
  • PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
  • Trauma & Abuse
  • Obsessions and compulsions (OCD)
  • Personality disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Anger, Sadness, Fear, Guilt, Hurt
  • Low self esteem
  • Insomnia
  • Panic & Anxiety
  • Eating disorders
  • Sports performance & performance anxieties
  • Fear of Public Speaking
  • Phobias
  • Depression
  • Addictions
  • Children's Issues

How does it work?

CBT helps to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into 'bite-size pieces,' making them easier to 'digest' and release.

  • Situations (difficult problem or events) are followed by
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions/physical symptoms
  • Behaviours

CBT helps to break vicious circles of thought, feelings and behaviour, allowing us to see all parts of the sequence clearly and change them, thereby enabling us to regain self-empowerment to tackle and resolve our problems.

CBT is an active therapy: The therapist and the client both take an active part in helping to resolve the client's issues. A flexible treatment plan is worked out to reflect the client's needs.

In many ways CBT resembles education or coaching. Under expert guidance the client will share in setting realistic goals and deciding which techniques work the best for them individually.

Time limited, structured and focused: CBT is usually fairly brief, (approx: 5 - 20 1hr weekly sessions), providing clear structure and focus, sticking to the point, and also changing course when necessary.

Client takes on valuable assignments between sessions which are developed as much as possible with the clients own active participation to extend and multiply the results of the work done within the time-frame spent with the therapist.

Past -vs- present and future:
Whilst focusing on the past is taken into account, CBT is more present-centred and forward looking than some other more traditional techniques.

Levers for change:

  • Challenging thoughts, beliefs, ideas, attitudes, assumptions, mental imagery and ways of directing attention, for the better... this is the cognitive aspect of CBT.
  • CBT is about: helping a person greet the challenges and opportunities in their life
    with a clear and calm mind... and then taking actions towards desirable results."