If you’re considering counseling either online or offline among the things that you must understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Talkspace American Telemedicine Association…likewise called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 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 great deal of value for assisting people struggling with anxiety depression life stressor type concerns therefore I actually want to assist you comprehend a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyhow so what CBT actually is is it’s a method a theoretical method where a therapist will
deal with you to examine your thoughts sensations and behaviors and the various methods they intersect and actually what they’re going to be seeking to do is take a look at how your ideas might be contributing to difficult emotions so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and are there manner ins which perhaps you can consider scenarios or individuals or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly encourage you to check out working with a CBT therapist because it’s a efficient and evidence-based method of handling a variety of problems and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is really collective and it’s really a team approach to taking a look at the concerns that you fight with the other thing that people have perhaps a little bit of trouble getting used 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 kind of action item or homework project to finish between sessions and the reason for this is truly to assist you practice the skills and strategies that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance much more rapidly through the treatment process if you do your research sort of just like in school so a couple of other things to understand about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured technique than other types of therapies and it involves identifying goals that you and the counselor accept deal with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the counselor really invites and obtains feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s an extremely collaborative technique and it’s not this
idea of the counselor having more knowledge than you but just that the therapist has knowledge in different locations that they can bring to bear and maybe provide you different methods of thinking of your issues among the more typical misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not take a look at your past at all or take a look at how your past might be affecting your present which’s really not real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on today and how you’re working in today however to see a good CBT therapist will work with you on analyzing if there are any concerns in your past that are still affecting your capability to work effectively and effectively today if you like this video please feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more material on a variety of mental health topics and if you have an interest in finding out more about online counseling Talkspace American Telemedicine Association