If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline one of the important things that you need to learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….California Counseling Online…likewise called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing with individuals with a variety of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a lot of worth for helping people fighting with anxiety depression life stressor type problems and so I truly wish to help you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyhow so what CBT really is is it’s a way a theoretical approach where a therapist will
work with you to examine your ideas sensations and behaviors and the different ways they intersect and really what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your ideas might be contributing to tough emotions so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and are there ways that perhaps you can think of situations or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a little bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly encourage you to look into working with a CBT therapist since it’s a reliable and evidence-based way of handling a variety of issues and problems if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is really collaborative and it’s truly a team method to taking a look at the issues that you deal with the other thing that people have perhaps a bit of difficulty getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to designate you some sort of action item or research assignment to finish between sessions and the factor for this is really to assist you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress far more quickly through the treatment procedure if you do your research type of much like in school so a couple of other things to know about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s typically a more structured technique than other kinds of therapies and it involves identifying objectives that you and the counselor agree to deal with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT treatment the therapist really invites and obtains feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s an extremely collaborative method and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more knowledge than you however simply that the therapist has competence in various areas that they can bring to bear and maybe give you various ways of thinking about your problems among 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 actually not real in CBT the focus is definitely more on today and how you’re operating in the present however to see an excellent CBT therapist will deal with you on taking a look at if there are any problems in your past that are still affecting your capability to function effectively and effectively today if you like this video please feel free to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a range of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in learning more about online counseling California Counseling Online