If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you ought to understand about is cognitive behavior modification ….Talkspace Warrants…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified medical psychologist with over ten 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 value for helping people fighting with stress and anxiety depression life stress factor type concerns and so I truly want to assist you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyway so what CBT actually is is it’s a way a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts sensations and behaviors and the various methods they intersect and truly what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be adding to difficult feelings so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and are there manner ins which perhaps you can think about circumstances or individuals or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I highly encourage you to check out working with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and reliable method of handling a range of problems and issues if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is very collective and it’s truly a team method to taking a look at the concerns that you battle with the other thing that individuals have possibly a bit of difficulty 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 great
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some type of action item or homework task to complete in between sessions and the factor for this is really to assist you practice the abilities and strategies that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress much more rapidly through the therapy process if you do your research type of just like in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s usually a more structured method than other types of therapies and it involves recognizing goals that you and the counselor consent to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the therapist truly gets and invites feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s an extremely collaborative approach and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more understanding than you but simply that the counselor has knowledge in different locations that they can bring to bear and maybe provide you various methods of thinking about your issues among the more typical misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not take a look at your past at all or analyze how your past might be affecting your present and that’s in fact not real in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re working in the present but to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to operate efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more material on a variety of mental health topics and if you’re interested in finding out more about online counseling Talkspace Warrants