If you’re thinking about counseling either online or offline among the things that you ought to learn about is cognitive behavior modification ….Online Mental Health Counseling Services…likewise referred to as CBT my name is dr. Sonia and I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience dealing with individuals with a range of mental health conditions I see myself as a strong CBT therapist and believe that has a lot of value for helping individuals struggling with stress and anxiety depression life stressor type concerns and so I truly 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
deal with you to analyze your thoughts feelings and behaviors and the various ways they converge and truly what they’re going to be wanting to do is take a look at how your ideas might be adding to tough emotions so are your thoughts assisting to sustain a level of anger or unhappiness or fear and are there ways that maybe you can think of scenarios or people or yourself in a different way in order to feel a little 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 effective and evidence-based way of handling 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 team method to analyzing the concerns that you have problem with the other thing that individuals have perhaps a bit of problem getting utilized to or accepting with CBT therapy is that you will get research yes it’s similar to being back in school and so a great
CBT therapist is going to designate you some type of action item or homework task to complete between sessions and the factor for this is really to assist you practice the skills and methods that your in session out of session and you will discover that you will progress much more rapidly through the treatment process if you do your homework kind of just like in school so a few other things to learn 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 agree to work with on together and the other bottom line is that in CBT treatment the therapist truly invites and solicits feedback on how things are going so this goes back to the idea that it’s a really collective approach and it’s not this
idea of the therapist having more understanding than you but simply that the therapist has know-how in different areas that they can bring to bear and maybe give you different ways of thinking of 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 analyze how your past might be affecting your present which’s really not real in CBT the focus is absolutely more on the present and how you’re operating in the present but to see a good CBT therapist will work with you on examining if there are any problems in your past that are still impacting your capability to operate effectively and effectively today if you like this video please feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel where you’ll find a lot more content on a range of mental health subjects and if you have an interest in finding out more about online therapy Online Mental Health Counseling Services