Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for anxiety
CBT for anxiety - learn how to reduce your anxiety, identify the root cause, its symptoms & triggers - anxiety counselling based in London.
Anxiety therapy explained
Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as a worry or fear, it can be mild or severe. Everyone feels a normal degree of anxiety in life when faced with such challenges as a job interview or a visit to the dentist.
But some people can find it hard to control their worries which, in turn, can make their feelings of anxiety become more constant and affect their everyday lives. If you feel anxious a lot of the time about many different situations then you may be suffering from an anxiety disorder.
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What anxiety symptoms are there?
Feelings of anxiety can be affect both your mind and your body, some of the most common symptoms are:
● Lack of confidence
● Difficulty concentration
● Lack of appetite
● Feeling a sense of dread or fearing the worst
● Feeling panicky or on edge, having a panic attack
● Insomnia
● Irritability
● Feeling detached or withdrawn
● Restlessness
● Heart palpitations, shortness of breath
It’s important to remember that some people with a general anxiety disorder may appear to be fine on the outside while still having some of the symptoms listed above. As someone living with anxiety you may have developed ways of hiding your anxiety so that other people don’t notice it.
Using CBT therapy for anxiety issues
At Pinnacle we know that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and that each of our clients is different and has their own set of unique needs and circumstances. We use a combination of therapies for anxiety, one of the primary treatments is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
What is CBT and mindfulness CBT?
CBT, or mindfulness CBT as it is sometimes referred to, 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 reduce anxiety?
CBT has good results when applied to someone who suffers from social anxiety disorder. Using cognitive therapy, your therapist can help you to tackle negative thought patterns you may direct at yourself or that you perceive from the world around you. It is usually these negative thoughts that trigger an episode of anxiety.
After you have recognised these negative thoughts and when they occur, you can work to replace them with something more rational and positive which will allow you to cope with anxiety in a calm and controlled manner.
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.
What can you expect from a CBT for anxiety therapy?
Our anxiety therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. We work with individuals, couples, teens, and groups. The sessions usually last from 30 minutes to an hour; and our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
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