If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the important things that you ought to understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Anthem Talkspace…likewise referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience dealing with individuals with a range of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a lot of value for helping people having problem with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns therefore I really want to assist you understand a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyway so what CBT truly is is it’s a way a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to examine your ideas feelings and habits and the different methods they converge and truly what they’re going to be aiming to do is look at how your thoughts might be contributing to difficult feelings so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and exist manner ins which maybe you can consider scenarios or individuals or yourself in a different way in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly encourage you to check out working with a CBT therapist because it’s an evidence-based and efficient way of dealing with a variety of problems and issues if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is really collective and it’s really a team approach to analyzing the problems that you deal with the other thing that individuals have possibly a bit of difficulty getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s similar to being back in school therefore a great
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some sort of action item or homework task to complete between sessions and the reason for this is truly to help you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance a lot more rapidly through the therapy process if you do your homework sort of just like in school so a few other things to learn about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured approach than other kinds of therapies and it includes identifying goals that you and the counselor consent to work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist really invites and obtains feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s a very collective method and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more understanding than you however just that the counselor has competence in various locations that they can bring to bear and perhaps provide you different ways of thinking about your issues one of the more common mistaken beliefs about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not take a look at your past at all or take a look at how your past might be affecting your present which’s really not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on the present and how you’re functioning in today but to see a great CBT therapist will work with you on taking a look at if there are any concerns in your past that are still impacting your ability to function successfully and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more material on a variety of mental health subjects and if you’re interested in learning more about online therapy Anthem Talkspace