What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
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At CBT sessions, you work with a therapist / trainer to learn and apply great coping skills through awareness and self-regulation of your thoughts and feelings and behaviours.
We learn to identify our automatic ‘bad thinking habits’, and to develop more rational and appropriate interpretations and responses to events and situations, issue by issue, step by step.
We learn to develop better coping skills for stressors and challenging events and situations – consciously and deliberately, over time. “What would an emotionally intelligent approach to this issue look like? What outcome does my current approach give me?”
Modern CBT is not just about thoughts and emotions – it also includes neurobiology and understanding anxiety as a physical reaction.
It’s a very practical measured and proven ‘evidence based’ psychotherapy, and is the worlds fastest growing ‘first choice’ therapy – to develop new habits that stick and give new better outcomes.
Low Intensity style CBT is a fast intervention therapy – improvements often show within just a few sessions, which means it’s a lower cost to access for those who don’t have the inclination or time or money for long term deep counselling. It is also an alternative if you have already been in more traditional talking therapy but haven’t had a great outcome.
It’s a ‘psycho-educational’ model in which the client effectively ‘becomes their own therapist’, building new habits that stick.
Studies show that engaged learners can develop life changing skills that stay with them forever (your ‘toolbox).
CBT handouts and worksheet resources can be used in your own time and at your own pace, building a toolbox that works for you.
My original CBT downloadable resources site is regularly ranked on Top 10 CBT Blogs in the World listings, and has over 1.3 million views and hundreds of thousands of downloads by mental health professionals all over the world.