If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you must understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Catholic Telephone Counseling Online…likewise called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed medical psychologist with over ten years of experience working with individuals with a range of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a lot of worth for helping individuals dealing with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type issues and so I actually wish to help you understand a 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
deal with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and behaviors and the various methods they intersect and truly what they’re going to be looking to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be adding to challenging feelings so are your ideas helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and exist ways that possibly you can think about situations or people or yourself differently in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re thinking about counseling I strongly encourage you to look into working with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and reliable method of handling a range of issues and concerns if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is really collaborative and it’s really a group method to taking a look at the problems that you struggle with the other thing that people have perhaps a bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s similar to being back in school and so an excellent
CBT therapist is going to assign you some type of action item or homework assignment to complete between sessions and the reason for this is really to help 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 therapy procedure if you do your homework sort of just like in school so a couple of other things to learn about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s usually a more structured method than other kinds of treatments and it involves determining objectives that you and the counselor consent to work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist actually solicits and invites feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the concept that it’s a very collaborative method and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more understanding than you but simply that the counselor has proficiency in different areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps offer you different ways of thinking about your problems among the more typical misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or examine how your past might be impacting your present which’s in fact not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on today and how you’re working in the present however to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on taking a look at if there are any issues in your past that are still affecting your capability to operate successfully and successfully today if you like this video please feel free to sign up for our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more content on a variety of psychological health subjects and if you’re interested in discovering more about online therapy Catholic Telephone Counseling Online