If you’re considering counseling either online or offline among the important things that you should learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Better Help Counseling…likewise referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified medical psychologist with over ten years of experience working with individuals with a variety of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a great deal of value for assisting people battling with anxiety depression life stressor type problems therefore 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 really is is it’s a method a theoretical technique where a therapist will
deal with you to examine your ideas sensations and behaviors and the different methods they intersect and truly what they’re going to be seeking to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be contributing to tough emotions so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and are there ways that maybe you can consider scenarios or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly encourage you to look into working with a CBT therapist because it’s a reliable and evidence-based way of handling a variety of problems and issues if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is very collaborative and it’s actually a group method to taking a look at the problems that you have problem with the other thing that people have possibly a little bit of trouble getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school therefore a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some sort of action item or research task to finish in between sessions and the reason for this is really to assist you practice the skills and methods that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance a lot more quickly through the treatment process if you do your research sort of just like in school so a few other things to understand about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s generally a more structured technique than other types of therapies and it involves recognizing goals that you and the counselor accept deal with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the therapist really welcomes and solicits feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s an extremely collective approach and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more knowledge than you but simply that the therapist has expertise in various locations that they can bring to bear and maybe provide you various methods of thinking about your issues 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 impacting your present and that’s really not real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on the present and how you’re working in today however to see a good CBT therapist will work with you on analyzing if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your capability to operate efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more content on a variety of mental health topics and if you have an interest in finding out more about online therapy Better Help Counseling