Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

What is CBT?

• Do you struggle with general anxiety, social anxiety, phobias or OCD?
• Are you caught in a negative cycle of unhelpful thinking and behaving?
• Are you prone to self-sabotage? Are you binge eating and want to stop?
• Feeling stuck in low-esteem and confidence?

Cognitive behavioural therapy is focused more on the here and now and your current difficulties rather than concentrating on what has happened to you in the past. It can help you change what you think (your cognitions) and what you do (your behaviours).

CBT will help you look at how you think about yourself, the world and your future. It will also help you understand how your thoughts affect your feelings and behaviours. You will also learn how what you do affects your thought life and emotional life. Making changes to your thinking and behaviours can help you feel better

What can CBT help with?

CBT can be helpful with many types of common mental health problems such as general anxiety , health anxiety or social anxiety. It is also very effective for OCD and panic attacks, low mood and depression and low self esteem and anger management amongst others. It is also helpful with chronic pain and fatigue management.

How it works

CBT can help you break down your problem which can feel overwhelming into manageable parts. This allows you to see a clearer picture of how all the part are connected and where and what you can change to produce a different more helpful outcome.

You will learn to look at the problem or difficult situation you are struggling with in terms of

• Your thoughts about it
• The physical feelings you are experiencing
• Your emotions and
• Your behaviours…the choices you make and action you take

They are all connected…each part having an effect on the other. You will learn how you the helpful and unhelpful ways of responding to the circumstances you find yourself in.

CBT will help you become your own therapist