If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the things that you need to understand about is cognitive behavior modification ….Community And Support Manager At Betterhelp…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience working with people with a range of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a lot of worth for assisting people having problem with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns and so I actually want to help you comprehend a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyway so what CBT truly is is it’s a method a theoretical approach where a therapist will
deal with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and habits and the different methods they intersect and truly what they’re going to be aiming to do is look at how your ideas might be adding to difficult emotions so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and exist manner ins which perhaps you can think about situations or people or yourself differently in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I highly encourage you to check out working with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and reliable method of handling a variety of problems and problems if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is very collaborative and it’s actually a team approach to examining the issues that you deal with the other thing that individuals have maybe a little bit of difficulty getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get research yes it’s much like being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to designate you some kind of action product or homework project to finish in between sessions and the factor for this is actually to assist you practice the abilities and techniques that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance far more quickly through the therapy procedure if you do your research type of similar to in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s generally a more structured technique than other types of therapies and it includes identifying objectives that you and the therapist agree to work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the counselor actually invites and solicits feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s a very collective approach and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more understanding than you however simply that the therapist has knowledge in different locations that they can bring to bear and maybe give you different ways of thinking about your issues one of the more common misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not take a look at your past at all or examine how your past might be impacting your present which’s in fact not real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on today and how you’re functioning in the present but to see a good CBT therapist will work with you on taking a look at if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your ability to work efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of psychological health topics and if you have an interest in learning more about online counseling Community And Support Manager At Betterhelp