If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the important things that you need to learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Talkspace Commercial Actor…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed medical psychologist with over 10 years of experience dealing with individuals 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 dealing with anxiety depression life stressor type problems and so 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 anyway so what CBT actually is is it’s a method a theoretical approach where a therapist will
deal with you to examine your ideas feelings and habits and the different ways they intersect and actually what they’re going to be seeking to do is look at how your thoughts might be contributing to hard feelings so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and exist ways that maybe you can think of circumstances or individuals or yourself differently in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly motivate you to look into working with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and effective way of handling a variety of issues and problems if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is really collective and it’s truly a group method to examining the concerns that you fight with the other thing that people have maybe a bit of trouble getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school and so an excellent
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action item or homework assignment to finish between sessions and the reason 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 much more rapidly through the therapy process if you do your homework type of just like in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s normally a more structured technique than other types of treatments and it includes recognizing objectives that you and the counselor accept deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the counselor truly obtains and invites feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the concept that it’s a really collective method and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more knowledge than you but just that the counselor has expertise in various areas that they can bring to bear and possibly give you different ways of thinking about your problems 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 affecting your present which’s in fact not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on today and how you’re working in today however to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on examining 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 sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of mental health topics and if you’re interested in finding out more about online counseling Talkspace Commercial Actor