If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you should learn about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Adler Univeristy Online Clinical Mental Health Counseling…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with individuals with a variety of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a lot of value for assisting people dealing with anxiety depression life stress factor type issues and so I truly 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 actually is is it’s a way a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your ideas feelings and habits and the various ways they converge and actually what they’re going to be looking to do is look at how your thoughts might be contributing to tough feelings so are your ideas helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and are there ways that possibly you can think about circumstances or individuals or yourself differently in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re considering counseling I highly encourage you to check out dealing with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and reliable way of dealing with a variety of issues and issues if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is really collective and it’s really a team method to taking a look at the concerns that you battle with the other thing that people have maybe a little bit of difficulty getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a good
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some type of action item or homework task to finish between sessions and the reason for this is actually to help you practice the abilities and methods that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance much more rapidly through the therapy procedure if you do your research type of just like in school so a few other things to learn about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured approach than other kinds of treatments and it includes determining goals that you and the counselor accept work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT treatment the therapist actually invites and obtains feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s an extremely collective technique and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more understanding than you however just that the counselor has know-how in different areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps give you various methods of thinking of your problems one of the more common misunderstandings 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 which’s in fact not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on today and how you’re functioning in the present but to see an excellent CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any issues in your past that are still affecting your capability to work efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more material on a range of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in finding out more about online counseling Adler Univeristy Online Clinical Mental Health Counseling