If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline one of the things that you ought to learn about is cognitive behavioral therapy ….M Ed Counseling Online…likewise called CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed medical psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with individuals with a range of psychological health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a lot of value for helping individuals dealing with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns therefore I really want to assist you comprehend a bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyway so what CBT truly is is it’s a method a theoretical approach where a therapist will
work with you to examine your thoughts sensations and behaviors and the various ways they intersect and truly what they’re going to be looking to do is take a look at how your ideas might be contributing to hard emotions so are your thoughts helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and are there manner ins which perhaps 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 look into working with a CBT therapist because it’s an evidence-based and reliable way of handling a range of issues and issues if you’re working with the CBT therapist you’re going to find that the work is really collective and it’s really a group technique to taking a look at the problems that you battle with the other thing that people have possibly a little bit of problem getting utilized to or accepting with CBT treatment is that you will get homework yes it’s just like being back in school therefore an excellent
CBT therapist is going to designate you some sort of action product or homework assignment to complete between sessions and the reason for this is truly to help you practice the skills and techniques that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress a lot more quickly through the therapy process if you do your homework sort of just like in school so a few other things to know about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s typically a more structured technique than other kinds of therapies and it involves identifying objectives that you and the therapist consent to work with on together and the other key point is that in CBT treatment the counselor actually gets and welcomes feedback on how things are going so this returns to the concept that it’s a really collaborative method and it’s not this
concept of the counselor having more understanding than you but simply that the therapist has competence in various locations that they can bring to bear and perhaps give you different ways of considering your issues one of the more common misconceptions about CBT is that c.b.c therapists will not 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 definitely more on today and how you’re working in the present however to see a great CBT therapist will deal with you on taking a look at if there are any issues in your past that are still impacting your ability to work efficiently and successfully today if you like this video please feel free to subscribe to 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 M Ed Counseling Online