If you’re considering counseling either online or offline one of the important things that you ought to understand about is cognitive behavior modification ….Faith Based Counseling Online…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience dealing with individuals 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 assisting people struggling with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type problems therefore I actually want to help you understand a little 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 method a theoretical method where a therapist will
work with you to analyze your ideas sensations and behaviors and the different ways they intersect and really what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your ideas might be contributing to tough feelings so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or worry and exist ways that perhaps you can think of scenarios or individuals or yourself differently in order to feel a little bit much better so if you’re thinking about counseling I highly encourage you to look into dealing with a CBT therapist due to the fact that it’s an evidence-based and effective way of dealing with a range of issues and concerns if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is very collective and it’s actually a group approach to taking a look at the concerns that you deal with the other thing that individuals have maybe a little bit of difficulty getting used to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get research yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to assign you some kind of action product or homework project to complete in between sessions and the reason for this is actually to assist you practice the skills and methods that your in session out of session and you will find that you will advance far more quickly through the therapy procedure if you do your research type of similar to in school so a couple of other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s generally a more structured technique than other kinds of therapies and it involves recognizing goals that you and the therapist agree to work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT therapy the therapist truly solicits and welcomes feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s a really collaborative approach and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more knowledge than you but just that the therapist has expertise in different locations that they can bring to bear and possibly offer you various ways of thinking of your issues one of the more typical 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 impacting your present and that’s actually not true in CBT the focus is definitely more on the present and how you’re functioning in today but to see a good CBT therapist will deal with you on analyzing if there are any issues in your past that are still impacting your capability to function efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a range of mental health topics and if you’re interested in finding out more about online counseling Faith Based Counseling Online