Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – CBT – rewire your thinking.
Private Cognitive Behavioural Therapy sessions based in London. CBT is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
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What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is about looking at the relationship between your thoughts and feelings, and how they make you ‘default’ to certain behaviours. It’s seen as a different kind of ‘talking therapy’ that aims to solve a person’s current problems. In effect it helps you become your own therapist, where you use the skills you have learned.By using CBT, we can help make you aware of what your own defaults are: sometimes they help us, sometimes they don’t – CBT helps you recognise those different responses for what they are.
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How does CBT help?
CBT teaches how we can break out of those default patterns to become more resilient in situations we may find uncomfortable or stressful by identifying where we respond negatively and then challenging those negative thoughts with alternative, positive ones.Primarily good for tackling anxiety, stress and depression, CBT is a way to rewire the software of your brain, rehearsing troubling situations in your mind in order to create alternative ways of thinking when that situation arises again. In effect, you’re creating new mental circuitry by challenging and changing old responses that feel hardwired in, but aren’t.With CBT, the therapist acknowledges that there may be behaviours that you cannot control through rational thought. Rather, these harmful coping strategies are as a result of prior conditioning from the environment and other internal or external stimuli.By taking (what can feel like) insurmountable tasks and teaching you how to apply a pragmatic and objective viewpoint to these issues, CBT gradually changes the way you look at everyday challenges.You’ll leave with techniques that transform you from feeling like a victim, into someone who can control the way they respond. And they are transferable skills too, skills for life that most adults never learn.
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“We all have our default ways of dealing with situations. Most of us aren’t even aware of what they are. And some of the time they work. But like a tradesmen who turns up to every job with the same couple of tools, there will be situations where those tools just aren’t the right ones. CBT makes you aware and gives you a versatile practical set of life skills to become more agile, versatile and resilient for whatever life throws at you.”
Richard Reid – CEO, Therapist & Coaching Psychologist
What conditions can Cognitive Behavioural Therapy help with?
CBT is a very practical form of therapy, which is usually relatively short-term. It has been known to be equally as effective, if not more effective than, anti-depressants, and is prescribed for a range mental health conditions including:● Moderate depression and anxiety● Obsessive compulsive disorder● Phobias● Post-traumatic stress disorder● Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia● AddictionThere is some evidence suggesting that this type of therapy is also effective for attention deficit disorder (ADHD), hypochondriasis, dealing with multiple sclerosis, sleep disturbances due to ageing, dysmenorrhea and bipolar disorder.
What can you expect from a CBT clinic session?
Our private CBT therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. A typical one-on-one session starts with discussing what it is you would like to talk about that day. With a therapist’s help you will dismantle each problem into small, digestible parts that can be easily analysed.Our sessions usually last from 30 minutes to an hour; and our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
Together, our network of therapists have treated thousands of patients
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