If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the important things that you should learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Betterhelp Counseling Employment…likewise known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed scientific psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing with individuals with a variety of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a lot of worth for helping individuals having problem with anxiety depression life stressor type problems and so I actually want to assist you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyway so what CBT actually is is it’s a way a theoretical approach where a therapist will
deal with you to examine your ideas feelings and behaviors and the various methods they intersect and really what they’re going to be seeking to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be adding to hard emotions so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and exist ways that perhaps you can consider circumstances or people or yourself differently 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 a effective and evidence-based way of dealing with a variety of problems and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is very collective and it’s truly a group technique to examining the problems that you battle with the other thing that individuals have perhaps a bit of difficulty getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment 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 type of action product or research assignment to complete in between sessions and the reason for this is really to help you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will find that you will progress a lot more quickly through the therapy process if you do your research type of similar to in school so a few other things to learn about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s normally a more structured approach than other types of therapies and it involves identifying goals that you and the counselor accept work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the therapist really gets and welcomes feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s an extremely collective approach and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more understanding than you but simply that the therapist has know-how in various areas that they can bring to bear and possibly offer you different ways of thinking about your issues among the more common misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or examine how your past might be affecting your present and that’s actually not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re working in the present but to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on taking a look at if there are any issues in your past that are still affecting your ability to function efficiently and effectively today if you like this video please do not hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a range of psychological health topics and if you’re interested in discovering more about online therapy Betterhelp Counseling Employment