If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the important things that you need to understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Harvard Pilgrim Eap With Better Help…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified medical 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 believe that has a lot of worth for helping individuals dealing with anxiety depression life stress factor type issues and so I truly want to assist you understand a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyhow so what CBT truly is is it’s a method a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to examine your thoughts feelings and habits and the various methods they converge and really what they’re going to be seeking to do is look at how your ideas might be contributing to hard feelings so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and exist ways that possibly you can consider situations or people or yourself differently in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re considering counseling I highly motivate you to check out working with a CBT therapist since it’s a reliable and evidence-based method of handling a range of problems and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is really collaborative and it’s actually a group approach to analyzing the concerns that you fight with the other thing that people have maybe a little bit of problem getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s much like being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some sort of action item or research assignment to finish in between sessions and the reason for this is truly to assist 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 treatment process if you do your homework kind of similar to in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured method than other types of therapies and it includes determining goals that you and the counselor agree to deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist truly welcomes and solicits feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s an extremely collaborative method and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more knowledge than you however just that the therapist has expertise in various areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps give you different ways of thinking about your problems among the more typical misconceptions 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 really not real in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re working in the present but to see a great CBT therapist will deal with you on analyzing if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your capability to work successfully and effectively today if you like this video please feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more content on a variety of mental health topics and if you’re interested in learning more about online therapy Harvard Pilgrim Eap With Better Help