If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you need to learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Betterhelp Can’t Change Counselors…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified clinical 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 lot of worth for assisting people struggling with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns and so I really want to help you comprehend a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyhow so what CBT actually is is it’s a way a theoretical approach where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts sensations and habits and the various ways they converge and actually what they’re going to be seeking to do is look at how your thoughts might be contributing to hard emotions so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and are there ways that perhaps you can consider situations or people 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 look into working with a CBT therapist since it’s a reliable and evidence-based way of dealing with a range of problems and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is extremely collaborative and it’s actually a team technique to analyzing the issues that you struggle with the other thing that people have perhaps a bit of problem getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school therefore a good
CBT therapist is going to designate you some kind of action item or research assignment to finish in between sessions and the factor 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 progress much more rapidly through the therapy process if you do your research kind of similar to in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured approach than other types of treatments and it includes determining objectives that you and the counselor consent to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT treatment the therapist actually obtains and welcomes feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the concept that it’s an extremely collaborative approach and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more knowledge than you however simply that the counselor has proficiency in different locations that they can offer and maybe provide you various ways of considering your problems among the more typical misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or take a look at how your past might be affecting your present which’s really not real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on today and how you’re working in today however to see a great CBT therapist will deal with you on taking a look at if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your capability to function successfully and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more material on a variety of psychological health topics and if you have an interest in discovering more about online therapy Betterhelp Can’t Change Counselors