Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

CBT is not just another theory or school of psychotherapy. In recent years it has become the main stream psychological therapy. It is the therapy recommended by the Department of Health in its publications. Over recent years it has become the psychological treatment of choice, for anxiety, depression and PTSD and other conditions recommended in the NICE guidelines.  It has an extensive empirical base and extensive studies demonstrating effectiveness. It is the therapy that has a solid base in clinical science and develops further with new research findings.  Many Doctors now recommend CBT 

 

What does CBT involve:

Whilst consultations are essentially talking-therapy sessions. CBT goes beyond just talking and involves practical tasks, exercises and experiments to enhance understanding of the difficulty and to help bring about change in feelings, beliefs, thinking and behaviour. It is an essential part of therapy that clients have an understanding of the process causing their difficulty, so that the tasks, exercises and experiments make sense within that context.

 For this reason therapist and client are, in essence collaborators in a problem-solving process. Clients, in discussion with the therapist, decide which tasks and exercise they feel ready to undertake.

 There may be times when it is important to look at previous history but this is not usually an extensive part of the process. Treatment is more usually grounded in present experience, tends to be de-mystifying and usually has a problem orientated focus.

 

What it works for:

I can provide CBT for:  Low mood and depression, adjustment reactions,  chronic Pain, anxiety problems including: General anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive compulsive problems, work stress, health anxiety and Sleep problems.   And also with dependency and addiction problems, relationship problems, post-traumatic stress disorder,  chronic fatigue,and bulimia nervosa.  

 I do not at the present time provide treatment for psychosexual problems, but I will provide CBT for clients with psychosis or bipolar disorder,  provided their psychiatrist is in agreement. I have some but not a great deal of experience in these areas.  I usually recommend that clients look for therapists who work routinely with such difficulties, if available.

Nicholas Serieys

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