If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the things that you should learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Online Crisis Counseling Volunteer…also known as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a certified scientific psychologist with over ten years of experience working with people 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 battling with stress and anxiety depression life stress factor type concerns therefore I truly want to assist you understand a little bit more about it and how it works today so what is cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT anyhow so what CBT truly is is it’s a method a theoretical approach where a therapist will
deal with you to examine your ideas feelings and behaviors and the different methods they intersect and actually what they’re going to be looking to do is look at how your thoughts might be adding to tough feelings so are your ideas helping to sustain a level of anger or sadness or fear and are there ways that maybe you can think of situations or people or yourself differently in order to feel a bit better so if you’re considering counseling I highly encourage you to look into dealing with a CBT therapist since it’s an evidence-based and reliable way of dealing with a range of problems and problems if you’re dealing with the CBT therapist you’re going to discover that the work is extremely collaborative and it’s really a group technique to examining the problems that you struggle with the other thing that individuals have perhaps a bit of trouble getting used to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get homework yes it’s much like being back in school therefore a good
CBT therapist is going to assign you some type of action item or homework task to finish between sessions and the factor for this is actually to assist you practice the abilities and strategies that your in session out of session and you will find that you will progress a lot more rapidly through the treatment process if you do your research sort of similar to in school so a few other things to understand about cognitive behavioral therapy are that it’s usually a more structured method than other types of therapies and it includes determining goals that you and the counselor agree to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT therapy the counselor truly solicits and invites feedback on how things are going so this returns to the idea that it’s a very collaborative approach and it’s not this
concept of the therapist having more knowledge than you however simply that the counselor has proficiency in various areas that they can offer and perhaps provide you various methods of considering your issues one of the more typical misconceptions 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 in fact not real in CBT the focus is certainly more on today and how you’re working in today however to see an excellent CBT therapist will work with you on analyzing if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to operate efficiently and effectively today if you like this video please do not hesitate to register for our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more material on a range of psychological health topics and if you have an interest in discovering more about online counseling Online Crisis Counseling Volunteer