If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the things that you must understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Fathering Autism Talkspace…likewise called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing with individuals with a range of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a great deal of value for assisting people having problem with anxiety depression life stress factor type issues therefore I truly wish 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 really is is it’s a way a theoretical technique where a therapist will
work with you to examine your ideas sensations and habits and the different methods they converge and really what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be contributing to difficult feelings so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and exist ways that maybe you can think about circumstances or individuals or yourself in a different way in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re considering counseling I highly motivate you to look into working with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s a reliable and evidence-based method of dealing with a variety of issues and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is extremely collaborative and it’s truly a group technique to examining the concerns that you struggle with the other thing that individuals have possibly a bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to assign you some sort of action item or research assignment to complete between sessions and the factor for this is actually to help you practice the abilities and strategies that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress a lot more rapidly through the treatment process if you do your research type of much like in school so a few other things to understand about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s typically a more structured approach than other types of therapies and it includes identifying objectives that you and the therapist consent to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT treatment the therapist actually welcomes 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
idea of the counselor having more knowledge than you but just that the counselor has knowledge in different locations that they can bring to bear and possibly provide you various ways of thinking of your problems among the more common mistaken beliefs 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 really not true in CBT the focus is absolutely more on today and how you’re functioning in today but to see a great CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any concerns in your past that are still impacting your ability to work effectively 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 content on a variety of mental health topics and if you have an interest in discovering more about online therapy Fathering Autism Talkspace