Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasises the important role of critical thinking in how we feel and behave.
Unlike most other talking therapies that focus on healing past emotional injuries and addressing early life conditioning, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) challenges current unhelpful beliefs, thinking patterns and behaviours as a means to effect change.
At the very heart of CBT is the concept that the root of any feeling or behaviour is a thought and that for negative feelings or behaviours specifically, quite often an overly negative, irrational or entirely subjective thought.
'The mind is its own place - it can make a heaven out of hell, or a hell out of heaven.' John Milton
CBT helps us to make sense of our significant emotional reactions by dividing them up into smaller parts, allowing us to break them down and understand the relationship between situations we find ourselves in, the thoughts we have about those situations, how this makes us feel both physically and emotionally and all importantly, the actions we then take.
One of the core concepts within CBT (and its more direct offspring, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)) is the A-B-C model. The model states that it normally is not merely an activating external event (A) that creates our emotional and behavioural response or consequence (C), but also what we subjectively believe (B) about the activating event (A).
So a fear of a spider (the C - consequence) is not as a result of the person seeing the spider itself (the A - activating event), but rather their subjective beliefs (the B) they have about the spider being scary and dangerous.
In simple terms, change the belief and consequence, the emotional response changes, even if the spider is the same!
Versus traditional psychotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy can be a more direct and potentially authentic means to heal old emotional injuries and change long term beliefs and perspectives.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that emphasises the important role of critical thinking in how we feel and behave. CBT focuses on changing current thoughts and feelings rather than the past.
Living an emotionally healthier life is the key to living a happier life - and the happier we are, the better we perform in everything we do.
Or to put it another way, this is not a dress rehearsal!
We only get one shot at this thing called life - so if not now, if this isn't the time to embrace an opportunity for positive change, then when?
HAPPINESS IS AN INSIDE JOB!
Could you be more connected and more present during the good times, so you appreciate and enjoy them more?
Could you be more resilient and more positive during the tough times, so you feel less angst and more resourceful?
And could you feel more fulfilled and happier in the 80% of your life you spend in between?!?
If the answer to any of these questions is YES, we are very confident we can help you live an emotionally healthier life and as a direct result, a significantly happier and more abundant life.
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