If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline one of the things that you must know about is cognitive behavior modification ….Talkspace Spokesperson…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified 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 lot of value for assisting individuals having problem with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns and so I really wish 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 truly is is it’s a method a theoretical approach where a therapist will
deal with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and behaviors and the various ways they intersect and actually 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 ideas helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and are there ways that possibly you can consider situations or people or yourself differently in order to feel a bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I highly encourage you to check out dealing with a CBT therapist since it’s a reliable and evidence-based way of handling a range of issues and concerns 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 approach to taking a look at the problems that you fight with the other thing that individuals have maybe a little bit of difficulty getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get research yes it’s much like being back in school therefore a great
CBT therapist is going to designate you some kind of action product or homework assignment to complete in between sessions and the factor for this is truly to assist you practice the skills and methods that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress much more rapidly through the treatment procedure if you do your research kind of just like in school so a couple of other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s normally a more structured approach than other kinds of therapies and it involves recognizing objectives that you and the counselor consent to deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT treatment the therapist really obtains and invites feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s a very collective technique and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more knowledge than you but simply that the counselor has proficiency in various areas that they can offer and perhaps provide you various ways of thinking about your problems one of the more typical misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or take a look at how your past might be affecting your present and that’s really not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re functioning in today but to see a great CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any concerns 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 discover a lot more material on a variety of psychological health topics and if you’re interested in learning more about online therapy Talkspace Spokesperson