Tag: CBT

Anxiety, general health, Health, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Psychology10 Comments

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Change Therapy

This particular Talking therapy focusses on altering thought and behaviour patterns and is called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT. Although it can be helpful for various mental and physical health issues, it is most frequently used to treat anxiety and depression. It is used by mental health specialists, such as Psychologists, Psychotherapists, and Counsellors, to treat or manage emotional problems and mental health illnesses. CBT is founded on a number of fundamental ideas, such as: Psychological problems can have several root causes. These include unhelpful or problematic thought patterns, learnt patterns of unhelpful behaviour, and problematic core beliefs, such as … Continue reading Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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Body Shaming

Change Therapy

Body shaming is the action of making negative comments about one’s own or another person’s attractiveness or appearance. Body shaming leads to withdrawal, isolation, and is associated with depression, anxiety and a whole host of negative emotions, which have a serious impact on a person’s wellbeing. Why do people make critical comments about the shape or size of someone else’s body? This behaviour is witnessed in the playgrounds of schools and continues through time into the adult environments of work and leisure, where sarcastic remarks are still seen as ‘a bit of fun’, by many, including those in responsible positions … Continue reading Body Shaming

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Loneliness

Change Therapy

One of the most frequent issues that clients bring to my sessions is loneliness. One general assumption of loneliness is that you are an elderly person with little contact with the outside world. From my experiences these past few years, the people that are lonely, come from age-groups starting in late teens upwards. One individual’s story springs to mind, where they said they were lonely, and could not fathom out what to do. A young man with a job and a house, with lots to offer, but no-one to share life with. He wanted to go on holiday abroad, go … Continue reading Loneliness

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MBCT

Change Therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy improves on the ideas of cognitive therapy by teaching people to deliberately pay attention to their thoughts and feelings without passing judgement on them, utilising techniques such as mindfulness meditation. Cognitive therapy’s basic tenet is that incorrect self-beliefs cause unpleasant feelings like depression and that thoughts come before moods. To assist you in identifying and re-evaluating your negative thought patterns and replacing them with more realistically optimistic ones, MBCT makes use of cognitive therapy techniques. This method enables people to reflect on their ideas without being pre-occupied with what may have been or what might happen in … Continue reading MBCT