If you’re considering counseling either online or offline among the important things that you must know about is cognitive behavior modification ….Catholic Counseling Online…also referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with people with a variety of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a great deal of value for assisting people fighting with anxiety depression life stressor type problems therefore I actually wish to assist you understand 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 way a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and habits and the various ways they converge and actually what they’re going to be seeking to do is look at how your thoughts might be adding to difficult feelings so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and exist manner ins which maybe you can think of scenarios or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly encourage you to look into dealing with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s an evidence-based and effective method of dealing with a range of issues and concerns if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is extremely collective and it’s actually a group method to analyzing the problems that you battle with the other thing that people have perhaps a little bit of trouble getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school therefore a great
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some type of action product or research assignment to complete in between sessions and the reason for this is truly to help you practice the abilities and techniques that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will advance far more quickly through the treatment procedure if you do your research sort of much like in school so a couple of other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s normally a more structured technique than other types 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 therapy the counselor really gets and invites feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s an extremely collaborative approach and it’s not this
idea of the counselor having more knowledge than you but just that the therapist has knowledge in various areas that they can offer and possibly offer you various ways of considering your problems among the more common misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not take a look at your past at all or take a look at how your past might be affecting your present and that’s really not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on the present and how you’re functioning in the present but to see an excellent CBT therapist will deal with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to work efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of mental health topics and if you’re interested in learning more about online counseling Catholic Counseling Online