Cognitive Behavioural Therapy(CBT) is one of the most common and effective forms of therapy. CBT is a talking therapy used to help people with challenges and issues in their lives relating to mental health conditions. There are many benefits to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. CBT works on the basis that thoughts and behaviour are connected.
If you can change your thoughts, then your behaviour will change. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy(CBT) is solution based. The emphasis is on working with you to get past issues. By looking at situations differently. To challenge your thought patterns and how negative thinking impacts your behaviour.
CBT is concerned with right here right now. Which is why it is so effective.
What can Cognitive Behavioural Therapy help with?
CBT has been effective across a number of areas of mental health, there is no limit to how CBT can be used to help people with issues.
Common areas that CBT has been proven to be successful in either reducing the impact of or eliminating from peoples lives includes among other area;
Depression
CBT was originally developed as a way of helping people with depression. CBT can help you to make changes to your life that feels manageable.
Anxiety
CBT is excellent at examining the sources of thinking that leads to anxiety. It has a very direct and effective strategy for dealing with anxiety.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is often recommended as a solution for OCD. Challenges unwanted thoughts.
There are many others areas of life that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can help people with. In some ways there is no limit. Due to our professional approach to working with people. We reserve the right not to work with some people from time to time. As I do not feel in some cases that we are able to provide the level of care or expertise required by the individual.
Benefits of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Track Record of Success
CBT has been effective in helping many people who felt stuck in a mental health state that they thought might never change. CBT gives people optimism about the future.
Increases Self Confidence and Self Esteem
When you feel stuck, perhaps struggling with some issues and challenges that life throws at you. It can have a very negative effect on self confidence and self esteem. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy(CBT) helps to restore and increase peoples self confidence and self esteem.
Feeling more present
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy encourages us to be more present. Rather than focusing on the past or present. Which surely can only be a good thing.
Better Health
Whilst its hard to scientifically hard to prove. If you are less stressed, better able to cope with depression, anxiety etc. Then you are more likely to have better health in the long term.
More success in life
Again hard to prove but if the quality of your thoughts improves. Potentially many areas of your life will be more fruitful.
Rational thinking
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy encourages you to be more rational. To recognise thoughts that could be holding you back and to recognise them. Over time this will potentially lead to greater levels of rational thinking.
CBT can be very effective in helping a wide range of issues or challenges that people are experiencing, it might not work in every case. But for many many people it has created a lasting positive impact on their lives. The therapist and the client need to have a good level of trust and the therapist has to be able to help question and guide the client.
It is also worth noting that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy should be a simple process that is gradual in many cases.