If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline one of the things that you ought to know about is cognitive behavior modification ….Immediate Online Counseling…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed medical psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing 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 fighting with anxiety depression life stressor type problems and so I truly want 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 truly is is it’s a method a theoretical method where a therapist will
deal with you to analyze your ideas feelings and habits and the various ways they converge and truly what they’re going to be aiming to do is look at how your ideas might be adding to challenging feelings so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and are there ways that perhaps you can consider circumstances or people or yourself differently in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly motivate you to check out working with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and efficient way of handling a range of issues and concerns 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 examining the concerns that you deal with the other thing that people have perhaps a little bit of difficulty getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action item or homework task to finish in between sessions and the reason for this is really to help you practice the abilities and strategies that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance much more rapidly through the therapy process if you do your homework sort of just like in school so a few other things to understand about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s usually a more structured method than other types of therapies and it includes recognizing goals that you and the therapist agree to deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the counselor really welcomes and gets feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s a really collaborative approach and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more knowledge than you but simply that the therapist has expertise in various areas that they can bring to bear and possibly offer you various methods of considering your problems one of 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 which’s actually not real in CBT the focus is definitely more on today and how you’re functioning in the present however to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on analyzing if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to function successfully 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 range of mental health subjects and if you’re interested in finding out more about online counseling Immediate Online Counseling