If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the important things that you ought to know about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Michael Phelps Talkspace Commercial…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed scientific psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with people 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 helping people having problem with anxiety depression life stressor type problems therefore I truly wish to assist you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyway so what CBT really is is it’s a way a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and habits and the different methods they converge and actually what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your ideas might be adding to hard emotions so are your ideas helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and are there ways that maybe you can think about scenarios or people or yourself differently in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly encourage you to look into working with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s a reliable and evidence-based way of handling a range of issues and issues if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is extremely collective and it’s actually a group technique to analyzing the issues that you battle with the other thing that people have maybe a bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some sort of action item or research project to finish in between sessions and the reason for this is actually to help you practice the skills and strategies that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance far more rapidly through the therapy process if you do your research type of similar to in school so a few other things to learn about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s usually a more structured approach than other kinds of therapies and it includes recognizing objectives that you and the counselor consent to deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist actually solicits and invites feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s an extremely collective approach and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more knowledge than you however just that the counselor has expertise in different areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps offer you different ways of thinking about 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 analyze how your past might be affecting your present which’s actually not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re operating in today however to see a good CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to operate effectively 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 variety of psychological health topics and if you’re interested in learning more about online therapy Michael Phelps Talkspace Commercial