Snapshot CBT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (also known as CBT), is used to successfully treat conditions such as depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, pain management and many other conditions that negatively affect an individual's quality of life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an evidenced based form of treatment and is recommended in the NHS NICE Guidelines.

Simply expressed, CBT works through the psychologist and client identifying together the negative thinking patterns (core assumptions and schemas) that an individual holds.

These negative thought processes have usually developed over a lengthy period of time and are frequently at the root of an individual's current difficulties.

Once these unhelpful ways of thinking have been located, more appropriate or adaptive thinking patterns are learnt through a process of cognitive restructuring. During the treatment period new thought patterns gradually become integrated into thinking leading to a reduction and ultimately a resolution of the original presenting problem.

CBT is a very practical type of therapy and therefore can also be successfully used by individuals who are not normally comfortable talking about their emotions.

Acute Mental Illness

In circumstances where the results of preliminary assessment reveal the presence of an acute mental health disorder and associated risk factors are assessed as being present appropriate treatment referrals will be made.