What is CBT?

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a practical and goal-oriented therapy designed to help people identify and change thought patterns and behaviours that are contributing to distress and keeping them stuck.

How It Works

Through structured sessions, CBT helps people to recognise the links between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. This involves developing a formulation of how problems have developed and how they are currently being maintained.

The formulation then guides treatment, it is essentially the roadmap that highlights where changes can be made. From here the therapist helps the client to undermine the strength of negative thinking patterns and encourages them to start experimenting with new ways of approaching things.

Who Can Benefit from CBT?

CBT has a vast evidence base and is recommended by The National Institute for Clinical Excellence as the treatment of choice for a wide range of difficulties. I have personally found it to be most effective for treating persistent worry, health anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, OCD and phobias.

Transformation Through CBT

One of the benefits my clients frequently report following CBT is a sense of empowerment. This approach provides clarity and equips people with practical tools to interrupt and reframe negative thought patterns, leading to improved mood, stronger coping skills, and increased fulfilment.