Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

is an evidence-based treatment that helps you notice and challenge negative thinking patterns and behavioural responses that maintain your low mood/ anxious feelings. It is an effective treatment for a wide range of different conditions such as anxiety disorders, OCD, depression and chronic fatigue. In the CBT model, our thoughts, feelings, physiological responses and behaviours are viewed as all being interconnected.

Targeting one of these areas will lead to change in the other areas. In CBT you may be asked to keep diaries or thought records to monitor your negative automatic thoughts and feelings in between our sessions. We will then examine these in our sessions and you will learn strategies to challenge your negative thinking and responses. You may be asked to try out new behaviours as part of an approach to challenging your fixed thoughts on a situation.