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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a discipline of psychotherapy
that focusses on what you think, Cognition, and how that affects
the way you act, your Behaviour.
Where other forms of therapy may deal with the stress of daily
events as and when they arise, CBT has been proven to be very
effective in helping people suffering with specific
emotional difficulties including chronic anxiety, depression,
eating disorders or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
CBT works well with people suffering from Alcohol Dependency and
Alcohol Abuse problems as well as Social Phobia, as these are
essentially the result of circumstance instead of disease.
Addressing the underlying causes of anxiety is the best form of
anxiety treatment.
For instance:
In the supermarket, you see an old school friend who seems to
ignore you. Your natural reaction is to feel hurt by this. Thoughts
like ‘what did I do?’, ‘don’t they like me any more?’ circle your
head (sound familiar?). These worries grow, ruin your day and sap
your strength. CBT faces these feelings at their start, making you
analyse why your initial reaction was a negative one and allowing
you to replace that reaction with a positive one. So replacing the
negative, low feelings with one possibly of concern for the other
persons wellfare and alleviating yourself of the internalised
guilt.
Problems are assessed as composite ‘ingredients’, ie. the many
factors that have come together, both personal and circumstantial,
that lead to the negative emotion. Then each ingredient is dealt
with individually until the client has learnt to cope with the
problem in its entirety.
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