Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based psychological therapy recommended by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). It is considered to be the treatment of choice for many psychological difficulties and is particularly effective at treating anxiety difficulties and OCD.
CBT is a talking therapy which explores the links between our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours. Often making changes to the way we behave in certain situations, will also change the way we think and how we feel. We will work together to explore your current patterns of thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours and together will investigate making changes.
CBT is a collaborative process, in which you work together with your therapist to develop a shared understanding of current difficulties and how you would like things to be different. (Sadly, there is no expert who can sit there and give you all the answers!). We will work together to generate some realistic goals that you can work towards in therapy. Progress towards goals will be reviewed regularly.
Tasks will also be set for you to work on between therapy sessions, so you can go away and test different ideas out, or practice a new way of thinking or behaving in certain situations.
