If you’re considering counseling either online or offline among the things that you need to learn about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….Community Counseling Online…also 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 great deal of value for helping individuals dealing with anxiety depression life stress factor type issues and so I actually 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 really is is it’s a way a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your thoughts sensations and behaviors and the different ways they converge and actually what they’re going to be looking to do is take a look at how your ideas might be contributing to difficult emotions 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 in a different way in order to feel a bit much better so if you’re considering counseling I strongly encourage you to check out dealing with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s a reliable and evidence-based method of dealing with a range of problems and concerns if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is very collaborative and it’s really a team approach to analyzing the issues that you battle with the other thing that individuals have maybe a bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s just like being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some sort of action item or research task to complete in between sessions and the factor 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 progress a lot more rapidly through the treatment procedure if you do your homework type of similar to in school so a couple of other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s typically a more structured approach than other kinds of therapies and it involves recognizing goals that you and the therapist consent to deal with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT treatment the counselor truly welcomes and gets 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
idea of the counselor having more knowledge than you however simply that the counselor has expertise in different locations that they can offer and possibly provide you various methods of thinking of your issues among the more common mistaken beliefs 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 real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on the present and how you’re working in today but to see a great CBT therapist will work with you on taking a look at if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to function successfully and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll discover a lot more content on a variety of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in finding out more about online counseling Community Counseling Online