If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you should learn about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Online Counseling Endorsed By Jen Hatmaker…likewise referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed scientific psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing with individuals with a variety of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a great deal of value for helping people battling with anxiety depression life stressor type issues therefore I actually wish to help you understand a 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 approach where a therapist will
deal with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and behaviors and the various ways they converge and really what they’re going to be looking to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be contributing to challenging emotions so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and are there ways that perhaps you can think about scenarios or individuals or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly motivate you to check out dealing with a CBT therapist because it’s a effective and evidence-based way of dealing with a variety of issues and concerns if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is really collaborative and it’s truly a group approach to analyzing the problems that you have problem with the other thing that individuals have maybe a bit of trouble getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s much like being back in school therefore an excellent
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some type of action item or homework task to complete in between sessions and the factor for this is really to help you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance far more rapidly through the treatment process if you do your research type of much like in school so a couple of other things to know about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s typically a more structured technique than other types of treatments and it involves determining objectives that you and the therapist accept deal with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the therapist truly welcomes and gets feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s an extremely collaborative method and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more knowledge than you but simply that the therapist has expertise in different areas that they can offer and possibly give you different ways of thinking of your problems among the more common misconceptions 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 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 good CBT therapist will work with you on analyzing if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to work successfully and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a variety of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in discovering more about online therapy Online Counseling Endorsed By Jen Hatmaker