If you’re considering counseling either online or offline among the important things that you should know about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Neil Leibowitz Talkspace…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed scientific psychologist with over ten years of experience working with people with a variety 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 stress and anxiety depression life stressor type issues therefore I actually wish to assist 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 truly is is it’s a way a theoretical approach where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your ideas feelings and behaviors and the various ways they converge and truly what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your ideas might be adding to tough emotions so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and are there manner ins which possibly you can consider circumstances or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly motivate you to check out dealing with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s an evidence-based and effective method 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 very collaborative and it’s actually a team method to analyzing the issues that you struggle with the other thing that individuals have perhaps a bit of difficulty getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some sort of action item or homework project to finish between sessions and the reason for this is truly to assist you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress a lot more quickly through the therapy process if you do your homework type of just like in school so a few other things to learn about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s usually a more structured technique than other kinds of treatments and it includes determining objectives that you and the counselor consent to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the counselor really obtains and invites feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s a very collaborative approach and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more knowledge than you but just that the therapist has knowledge in various locations that they can bring to bear and perhaps provide you various methods of thinking about your issues among the more typical misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or examine how your past might be impacting your present and that’s in fact not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on the present and how you’re operating 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 affecting your ability to function effectively and effectively today if you like this video please do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of mental health topics and if you have an interest in learning more about online therapy Neil Leibowitz Talkspace