If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the things that you need to understand about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Chabot Online Counseling…likewise known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing with people with a range of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and think that has a lot of value for assisting individuals struggling with stress and anxiety depression life stress factor type concerns and so I really want 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 method a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to examine your thoughts feelings and habits and the different ways they converge and really what they’re going to be aiming to do is look at how your ideas might be adding to challenging feelings so are your ideas assisting to sustain a level of anger or sadness or worry and exist ways that possibly you can think about circumstances or individuals or yourself differently in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly motivate you to look into working with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s a reliable and evidence-based way of handling a range of problems and concerns if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover 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 individuals have perhaps a bit of problem getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s just like being back in school therefore a good
CBT therapist is going to appoint you some type of action item or homework task to finish in 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 find that you will progress much more quickly through the treatment process if you do your homework sort of just like in school so a few other things to understand about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s typically a more structured method than other types of therapies and it includes recognizing goals that you and the therapist accept deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the counselor actually welcomes and obtains feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the concept that it’s a very collective method and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more understanding than you but simply that the therapist has know-how in various areas that they can offer and maybe give you different ways of thinking of your issues among the more common 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 actually not true in CBT the focus is certainly more on the present and how you’re operating in today but to see an excellent CBT therapist will work with you on analyzing if there are any issues in your past that are still impacting your capability to work efficiently 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’re interested in learning more about online counseling Chabot Online Counseling