What is CBT?
It is a way of questioning, how you think about yourself, the world and other people and how what you do affects your thoughts and feelings.How does CBT help people move forward and feel more positive?
CBT can help you to change how you think (Cognitive) and what you do (Behaviour). Challenging these negative thoughts, can alter feelings and therefore help you change your behaviour and can help you to feel better. CBT focuses on the 'here and now' problems and difficulties.
What Issues does CBT help with?
CBT has been shown to help with many different types of problems. These include:
CBT may also help if you have difficulties with anger or a low opinion of yourself.
How does CBT work?
CBT can help you to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. This makes it easier to see how they are connected and how they affect you. These parts are:
Each of the above areas can affect the others. How you think about an issue can affect how you feel physically and emotionally. It can also alter what you do about it. There are helpful and unhelpful ways of reacting to most situations, depending on how you think about them.
CBT counselling is a way of looking at all your thoughts, feelings and reactions to situations and enabling you once you understand why you react the way you have been, you can make the choice to alter your behaviour and react in a different and more positive way, therefore enabling you to feel more in control of yourself and situations.
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