If you’re considering counseling either online or offline among the things that you ought to know about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Talkspace Internships…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified medical psychologist with over ten years of experience working with people with a range of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a lot of value for assisting individuals battling with anxiety depression life stress factor type issues therefore I truly wish to help you comprehend a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyhow 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 behaviors and the various ways they intersect and truly what they’re going to be seeking to do is look at how your thoughts might be contributing to tough feelings so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and exist manner ins which maybe you can consider situations or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly encourage you to look into working with a CBT therapist because it’s a effective and evidence-based method of handling a range of problems and concerns if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is really collaborative and it’s truly a team method to taking a look at the problems that you battle with the other thing that people have maybe a bit of difficulty getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action item or research task to finish between sessions and the reason for this is actually 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 quickly through the therapy procedure if you do your research sort of similar to in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured approach than other kinds of treatments and it involves recognizing goals that you and the therapist accept work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT treatment the therapist actually invites and solicits feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s an extremely collective method and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more knowledge than you but just that the counselor has expertise in various areas that they can bring to bear and maybe give you different ways of thinking of your issues one of the more common mistaken beliefs about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or analyze how your past might be impacting your present which’s actually not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on the present and how you’re functioning in the present but to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on analyzing if there are any issues in your past that are still affecting your ability to operate effectively and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in discovering more about online therapy Talkspace Internships