If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you should understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Bariatric Counseling Online…likewise known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified scientific psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with individuals with a range of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a great deal of worth for assisting individuals battling with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type issues and so I actually want to assist you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyway so what CBT actually is is it’s a method a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to examine your thoughts feelings and behaviors and the various ways they converge and actually what they’re going to be aiming to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be adding to challenging feelings so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and exist manner ins which perhaps you can consider situations or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly encourage you to look into dealing with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and efficient way of dealing with a variety of issues and issues if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is really collaborative and it’s really a group approach to taking a look at the concerns that you have problem with the other thing that people have perhaps a bit of problem getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action item or homework project to complete in between sessions and the reason for this is really to assist you practice the abilities and techniques that your in session out of session and you will find that you will progress far more quickly through the treatment procedure if you do your homework kind of much like in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured technique than other types of therapies and it includes determining objectives that you and the therapist agree to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the counselor actually gets and invites feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s an extremely collective technique and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more knowledge than you but just that the therapist has competence in various areas that they can offer and perhaps give you various methods of thinking of your problems among the more common misunderstandings about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not take a look at your past at all or analyze how your past might be affecting your present and that’s in fact not true in CBT the focus is absolutely more on the present and how you’re working in the present but to see a great CBT therapist will deal with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your capability to operate effectively and successfully today if you like this video please feel free to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of psychological health topics and if you have an interest in finding out more about online therapy Bariatric Counseling Online