What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can help you to change how you think (“Cognitive”) and what you do (“Behaviour”). These changes can help you to feel better.
It focuses on the ‘here and now’ problems and difficulties and looks for ways to improve your state of mind now.
How does it work?
It 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:
- A situation – a problem, event or difficult situation
From this can occur:
- Thoughts
- Emotions
- Physical feelings
- Actions
Each of these areas can affect the others. How you think about a problem can affect how you feel physically and emotionally. It can also alter what you think about it.
What is Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy ?
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH) is a method which integrates hypnosis with cognitive and behavioural approaches. This effective and active-directed process is based on the philosophy that people are not “disturbed” by events but by the views they hold about those events.
It aims to to treat a variety of emotional and psychomatic conditions. Though hypnosis is not a requirement of the therapy it can influence the effectiveness of the process.
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy is GOAL directed.
CBT is effective in the following:
Clinical Depression
Anxiety States
Panic Attacks
Insomnia
OCD
Anorexia
Bulimia
Social Fears
Weight Reduction
With You In Mind…
All humans have the ability to change the way they are able to deal with emotional issues, by focusing on the way their thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes are used.
… now there’s a thought.