If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the important things that you must learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Betterhelp Mental Health Subsidiary…likewise referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed medical psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with people with a variety of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a lot of worth for assisting individuals having problem with anxiety depression life stress factor type concerns and so I actually wish to assist you comprehend a 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 method a theoretical method where a therapist will
deal with you to examine your ideas sensations and behaviors and the different methods they converge and actually what they’re going to be aiming to do is take a look at how your ideas might be adding to difficult emotions so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and are there manner ins which possibly you can think of circumstances or individuals or yourself differently in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly motivate you to check out working with a CBT therapist because it’s an evidence-based and effective method of dealing with a range of issues and problems if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is extremely collaborative and it’s really a group method to taking a look at the problems that you struggle with the other thing that individuals have possibly a bit of problem 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 a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action product or research assignment to finish between sessions and the factor for this is actually to help you practice the abilities and methods that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress a lot more rapidly through the therapy procedure if you do your research sort of much like in school so a couple of other things to learn about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s typically a more structured method than other kinds of treatments and it includes recognizing goals that you and the counselor accept work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist actually welcomes and obtains feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the concept that it’s an extremely collaborative technique and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more understanding than you however simply that the therapist has know-how in various locations that they can offer and maybe provide you different methods of considering your issues one of the more common mistaken beliefs about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or analyze how your past might be impacting your present and that’s actually not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on today and how you’re functioning in the present but to see a great CBT therapist will work with you on analyzing if there are any concerns in your past that are still impacting your ability to function efficiently 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 range of mental health topics and if you’re interested in learning more about online therapy Betterhelp Mental Health Subsidiary