CBT Psychotherapy

CBT is often recognized as an effective form of intervention for anxiety and OCD and the unpleasant physical symptoms that accompany it. CBT is suitable for a wide range of problems including depression, behavioural problems, conflicts and relationship issues, trauma, eating disorders, personality disorders, and for struggles associated with low self-esteem and self-doubt. Additional approaches from Schema Therapy and ACT are used to deepen understanding of oneself or tackle more complex problems. Therapy can also be used as an instrument to improve self-awareness and quality of life.

 

Simply stated, CBT aims to identify and subsequently interrupt the underlying process that propels or feeds the problems one might experience.

 

In very broad terms therapy can be broken down in three main stages.

 

1. The first step in the process is building a therapeutic bond and learning more about the person’s present life and history. Therapeutic work can be challenging; a strong therapeutic bond and a mutual trust can help a person experience the ups and downs of the process with greater ease and curiosity. The safer a person feels the more likely they are to grow out of their comfort zone during the therapeutic work.

 

2. The second step involves a more in-depth assessment of problems, goals and values.
Through a collaboration between a client and a therapist, the patterns of the problem and it’s maintaining factors are explored.

 

3. Lastly, we plan and take the necessary actions towards the goals and values. In this phase various techniques are used to encourage the start of perceptual and behavioural change that align with client’s values and aim to minimize avoidable suffering in the future.

 

If you would like to learn more about my training and experience please follow the link here or you can view this information in a more chronological order on my LinkedIn profile.

 

To book an appointment please go to the Contact page. I do recommend booking an initial 30-minute video call, which is free of cost, to find out if we are a good match.