Finding your core beliefs
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
“I made a booking with Lauretta for CBT as I had been recommended this by my GP for panic attacks. I found her to be so helpful, kind and caring and the techniques worked to help me manage myself better too.”
COGNATIVE BEHAVIOURAL THEORY EXPLAINED
CBT can help make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts – this helps things to feel more manageable. Your thinking is core to cbt techniques and learning ways to challenge and change your thoughts fundamental.
The thinking part of you (cognition), your behaviours, emotions and your physical responses are all connected – it starts with your thoughts. How you think about a problem will affect how you feel physically and emotionally and what you do. There are helpful and unhelpful ways of reacting to situations, depending on how you think about them.
CBT is a research based method which means there has been years of research suggesting it is an effective therapeutic intervention. The NHS advocates this approach as a result of its research based effectiveness.
I tend to combine CBT with other effective therapies which you can read about on the other pages.
WHY CBT?
- helps you to be more aware of your thoughts that are unhelpful
- changes the way you think
- with changes to your thinking this brings changes to your feelings and behaviours
- breaks the vicious circle of distorted thinking, feelings and behaviour
- identifies the parts of the sequence that control your feelings
- gets you to a point where you can “do it yourself” and work out your own ways of tackling problems
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