If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the important things that you ought to know about is cognitive behavior modification ….Westminster Seminary Online Counseling…also called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified medical psychologist with over 10 years of experience dealing with people 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 dealing with anxiety depression life stressor type concerns and so I actually want to help you comprehend a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyway so what CBT really is is it’s a method a theoretical technique where a therapist will
deal with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and behaviors and the different methods they intersect and really what they’re going to be looking to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be adding to hard feelings so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and exist ways that possibly you can consider circumstances or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a little 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 reliable and evidence-based way of handling a variety of issues and issues if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is extremely collaborative and it’s truly a group technique to taking a look at the concerns that you fight with the other thing that people have perhaps a bit of problem getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s much like being back in school and so an excellent
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action product or homework task to finish in between sessions and the factor for this is actually to assist you practice the skills and strategies that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance a lot more quickly through the treatment procedure if you do your research type of much 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 kinds of therapies and it involves determining goals that you and the counselor accept deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the counselor actually solicits and invites feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s a very collaborative technique and it’s not this
idea of the counselor having more knowledge than you but simply that the counselor has know-how in different areas that they can offer and maybe provide you various methods of thinking about your issues among the more typical misunderstandings about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or analyze how your past might be affecting your present which’s actually not real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on today and how you’re working in today but to see an excellent CBT therapist will deal with you on taking a look at if there are any issues in your past that are still impacting your ability to work effectively and effectively today if you like this video please do not hesitate to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a variety of psychological health subjects and if you’re interested in finding out more about online therapy Westminster Seminary Online Counseling