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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) treatment for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
CBT treatment for PTSD - learn how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for PTSD can help you combat & overcome traumatic events, & regain control over your emotions.
PTSD and trauma therapy explained
To understand PTSD we must first understand trauma.
Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event, whether experienced or witnessed. Everyone will respond to trauma in their own way.
Immediately after a traumatic event, you may experience shock and denial; these are typical initial responses. Longer term reactions may include unpredictable emotions, strained relationships, flashbacks, and even physical symptoms like headaches or nausea.
Trauma can be described as experiencing an event or multiple events which overwhelm your ability to cope. Examples of trauma are the sudden death of a loved one, a distressing experience or humiliating occurrence. Trauma can often be the outcome of physical harm. However, any situation that limits your ability to cope can be traumatic. Some traumatic events are sudden, giving you no time to prepare yourself emotionally. This can leave you feeling powerless to regain control.
There are situations where a traumatic event that happens in your childhood can often be suppressed and problems arise later. Trauma therapy can help you combat these traumatic events and guide you towards regaining control of your emotions.
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What is PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event – either by experiencing it or witnessing it. Whilst it is not an inevitable response to trauma it can have a significant impact on your life.
PTSD is a longer-term condition where the person continues to have flashbacks and re-experiences the traumatic event. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event. Trauma therapy is effective in overcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
How to tell if you are suffering from PTSD
There are many symptoms that can be ascribed to trauma. These symptoms can be emotional, or physical and can determine the severity of the issues.
The most common emotional symptoms are feelings of anxiety and fear in situations that are neither scary or stressful. You may also suffer from mood swings or have difficulty concentrating on everyday tasks. The more common physical symptoms are the inability to sleep or erratic sleeping patterns, including feeling lethargic or fatigue.
If you notice any of these symptoms after a traumatic event you or someone you know has suffered, you may be in need of trauma counselling.
“Experiencing trauma or PTSD can be extremely debilitating; but it doesn't need to be that way. With a strong track-record in providing trauma support, we have a variety of fast-acting approaches that can help you to overcome these challenges permanently and grow from the experience too.”
Richard Reid - CEO, Therapist & Coaching Psychologist
Our approach to PTSD therapy
Our approach is based around building a rapport with you. Your PTSD therapist will work with you to understand how you are feeling. We’ll give you the opportunity to express your emotions freely. We know that showing an accepting nature is vital to helping you overcome negative feelings and to come to terms with grief or trauma.
It is our goal to make sure that you receive the right approach to your PTSD trauma counselling. Our objective is that you see yourself as a person who has the power and ability to change your life.
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 PTSD, one of the primary treatments is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).[LINK]
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What is CBT PTSD trauma focused therapy?
CBT is particularly effective in treating PTSD. It’s 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.
How does cognitive processing therapy for PTSD help?
CBT teaches you how to break out of those default patterns to become more resilient in situations you may find uncomfortable or stressful by identifying where you respond negatively and then challenging those negative thoughts with alternative, positive ones.
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 PTSD-based CBT therapy, your 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.
“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 can you expect from your CBT therapy for PTSD session?
Our CBT PTSD trauma therapy sessions are tailored to suit your needs. We work with individuals, couples, teens, and groups. Each session usually lasts from 30 minutes to an hour; our courses usually consist of around 6 to 12 sessions.
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