If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline one of the things that you must know about is cognitive behavior modification ….Talkspace Christian Counseling…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed medical psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with individuals with a variety of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a lot of worth for assisting people battling with stress and anxiety depression life stress factor type problems therefore I really wish to help 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 truly is is it’s a way a theoretical approach where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts sensations and behaviors and the various ways they converge and really what they’re going to be seeking to do is look at how your thoughts might be adding to hard feelings so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and exist ways that possibly you can think of circumstances or individuals or yourself differently in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly motivate you to look into working with a CBT therapist since 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 discover that the work is very collective and it’s truly a group method to examining the issues that you have problem with the other thing that individuals have possibly a bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s much like being back in school therefore an excellent
CBT therapist is going to designate you some sort of action product or homework project to complete in between sessions and the reason for this is actually to assist you practice the abilities and methods that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance much more rapidly through the therapy procedure if you do your homework sort of much like in school so a couple of other things to understand about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s usually a more structured technique than other kinds of therapies and it involves recognizing objectives that you and the therapist accept deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT treatment the therapist truly invites and obtains feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s a very collective method and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more understanding than you however just that the therapist has proficiency in various areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps give you various methods of thinking about your problems among the more typical 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 in fact not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on the present and how you’re functioning in the present however to see a great CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your ability to operate successfully and effectively today if you like this video please feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a variety of psychological health topics and if you have an interest in learning more about online counseling Talkspace Christian Counseling