Therapy

WHAT IS COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY AND HOW CAN IT HELP ME?

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave, hence the cognitive (thinking) and behavioural (doing).

CBT Psychotherapy is a short term intensive therapy that deals with the issues here and now and there is active participation from both client and therapist to help manage the difficulties. CBT is a high researched and evidence based Psychotherapy that is most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression disorders as follows:

• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or Intrusive Thoughts

• • • Social Anxiety
    • Low self Esteem
    • Depression

• Panic disorder

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Work stress & anxiety

• Perfectionism

• Intrusive thoughts

• Eating disorders – such as anorexia and bulimia

• • Excessive worry/ Generalised anxiety
  • Health Anxiety

• Sleep problems – such as insomnia

• • CBT is also sometimes used to treat people with long-term health conditions

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