If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you ought to learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Betterhelp Existential Therapy…also 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 lot of worth for helping individuals battling with stress and anxiety depression life stress factor type issues and so I really want to assist you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyhow so what CBT actually is is it’s a method a theoretical approach where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts sensations and behaviors and the different ways they converge and really what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be adding to hard emotions so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and are there manner ins which possibly you can think of situations or people or yourself differently in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly encourage you to look into working with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s an evidence-based and efficient method 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 very collective and it’s actually a group method to taking a look at the issues that you deal with the other thing that people have maybe a little bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get research yes it’s just like being back in school and so an excellent
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some type of action item or research task to complete between sessions and the factor for this is really to assist you practice the abilities and strategies that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance far more rapidly through the treatment process if you do your homework sort of much like in school so a couple of other things to learn about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s generally a more structured technique than other types of treatments and it involves determining goals that you and the therapist agree to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT treatment the counselor actually gets and welcomes feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s a very collaborative method and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more understanding than you but just that the counselor has proficiency in various areas that they can offer and possibly give you different ways of thinking of your issues one of the more typical mistaken beliefs 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 which’s really 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 work with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your ability to function successfully and effectively today if you like this video please feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a range of psychological health topics and if you have an interest in finding out more about online counseling Betterhelp Existential Therapy