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About CBT

 

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy. It can help people who are experiencing a wide range of mental health difficulties. What people think can affect how they feel and how they behave.

During times of mental distress, people think differently about themselves and what happens to them. Thoughts can become extreme and unhelpful. This can worsen how a person feels. They may then behave in a way that prolongs their distress.

CBT practitioners help each person identify and change their extreme thinking and unhelpful behaviour. In doing this, the result is often a major improvement in how a person feels and lives.

 

CBT can help you to change how you think 'cognitive' and what you do 'behaviour'. These changes can help you to feel better. Unlike some of the other talking treatments, it focuses on the 'here and now' problems and difficulties. Instead of focusing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve your state of mind now.

 

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.

 

 

Is this right for me?

 

When you visit a therapist at Sereniti he/she would assess whether this is an appropriate type of therapy for you.

 

All our clinical therapists are registered with one of the bodies listed below, depending upon their specialist field of work, they will talk you through what this means at your first appointment.

 

• UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy)
• HPC (Health Professionals Council)
• BPS (British Psychological Society)
• BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)

 

 

For more information about this service please contact us.