If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline one of the things that you ought to learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Continuing Education Counseling Online…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience dealing with people with a variety of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a great deal of worth for helping individuals fighting with anxiety depression life stressor type concerns therefore I really wish to help you comprehend a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavior modification or CBT anyway so what CBT truly is is it’s a method a theoretical technique where a therapist will
work with you to examine your thoughts sensations and habits and the different ways they converge and truly what they’re going to be looking to do is take a look at how your thoughts might be contributing to hard emotions so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and are there ways that possibly you can think of scenarios or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a bit better so if you’re thinking about counseling I highly motivate you to check out dealing with a CBT therapist since it’s a efficient and evidence-based method of dealing with a range of problems and issues if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is very collaborative and it’s really a group approach to analyzing the problems that you have problem with the other thing that people have maybe a bit of problem getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get research yes it’s similar to being back in school and so an excellent
CBT therapist is going to designate you some sort of action item or research assignment to finish between sessions and the reason for this is actually to assist you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will find that you will progress a lot more quickly through the treatment procedure if you do your research sort of much like in school so a few other things to learn about cognitive behavior modification are that it’s typically a more structured method than other kinds of therapies and it involves recognizing objectives that you and the counselor accept deal with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist truly obtains and invites feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s an extremely collective method and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more understanding than you however simply that the counselor has proficiency in various areas that they can bring to bear and perhaps provide you different methods of thinking about your issues one of the more common misunderstandings about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not look at your past at all or analyze how your past might be affecting your present and that’s actually not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re working in today but to see a good CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any concerns in your past that are still affecting your capability to function successfully and successfully today if you like this video please feel free to register for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a variety of mental health topics and if you have an interest in learning more about online therapy Continuing Education Counseling Online