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CBT & You?
Cognitive behavioural therapy is a long standing form of therapy where the client is helped to change (if necessary) their existing behaviours by becoming acutely aware of their thoughts, feelings and actions.
"Pertaining to cognition, the process of knowing and, more precisely, the process of being aware, knowing, thinking, learning and judging."
from medterms.com
Where does it come from?
The name comes from the Latin, 'cognoscere' which means 'to know, to recognise or to become aquainted with'.How does it work?
A client recognises their own behaviours and feelings in a given situation and learns to understand and gauge them. Once these are defined it is possible to begin looking at ways to create a positive change.
The therapeutic process itself is focussed, primarily, with helping a client to become consciously aware of a potential problem and how it may affect them. They are then shown how they can gauge their reaction to a given situation in an honest and balanced manner.
Is it just thinking about the problem?
Through dissasociated observation and gauging their reaction to situations which affect them, a client can get a true indication of how severe the effects of their problem are in 'real world' terms. This can be through visualisation and suggestion and equally through real situations where a client is expected to keep a "diary" of their experiences.
Does this help?
CBT helps a client on a number of levels. It allows them the opportunity to consciously understand their feelings in certain situations and prepare them for the changes which they can then make unconsciously through the combined techniques of hypnosis and NLP
A client can even find the act of envisaging their problems in this manner allows them to become accustomed to the feelings and through repetition become less anxious or upset.
