What is cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)?

CBT is all about helping you understand the patterns between your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviours.

It’s a practical, hands-on approach where we work together to identify aspects such as negative or unhelpful thoughts, beliefs you might have about yourself/others/the world (and how those impact you), how your past and current experiences might be influencing how you feel and act.

Then, we focus on building strategies and tools to help you manage your mental health, leading to better outcomes in your life. We work on building your confidence, managing your difficulties, and problem-solve. CBT also usually involves efforts to change behavioural patterns, facing your fears, learning to calm your body and mind, and more.

It’s a collaborative journey, aimed at empowering you with skills you can take forward even after therapy ends.

CBT is usually applied on a time focused basis, however longer-term therapy is also provided where this is helpful to the client.

CBT is effective in the treatment of long-term difficulties rooted in childhood experiences, as well as short-term problems triggered by recent situations or life events.
CBT is very well supported by research which has found it helpful for a wide variety of mental health difficulties – including anxiety, low mood and depression, OCD, social anxiety, panic, specific phobias, eating disorders and more.

CBT can be adapted for working with neurotypical and neurodivergent clients, children, teens and adults.