If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the important things that you should understand about is cognitive behavior modification ….Talkspace Dbt…also called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical 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 individuals fighting with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns and so I actually wish to assist you understand a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyway so what CBT truly is is it’s a method a theoretical technique where a therapist will
deal with you to analyze your ideas sensations and habits and the various methods they converge and really what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your ideas might be adding to hard feelings so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and are there manner ins which possibly you can think about circumstances or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I highly motivate you to look into working with a CBT therapist because it’s an evidence-based and reliable way of dealing with a range of problems and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is really collective and it’s really a group method to analyzing the problems that you battle with the other thing that individuals have perhaps a little bit of problem getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action item or research task to complete between sessions and the reason for this is really to help you practice the skills and strategies that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance far more rapidly through the therapy procedure if you do your research type of just like in school so a couple of other things to understand about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s normally a more structured method than other types of treatments and it involves identifying goals that you and the therapist agree to deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist truly welcomes and gets feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s a really collaborative method and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more understanding than you but just that the therapist has expertise in various areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps offer you different methods of thinking about your problems among the more common 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 impacting your present and that’s in fact 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 deal with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your ability to function successfully and successfully today if you like this video please feel free to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more content on a range of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in discovering more about online therapy Talkspace Dbt