Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) How can Cognitive Behavioural Treatment help you?

CBT is a form of therapy that focuses on what people are thinking (cognitions) and how their thoughts affect them emotionally and their actions (behaviours) in response to situations. CBT can be used to help with a wide range of problems and disorders including: depression, stress and anxiety.

  • CBT is a psychological approach based on scientific principles which research has shown to be effective for a wide range of problems.
  • CBT is often a short-term therapy which tends not to require long exposure; typically anything between 6 and 10 sessions (though it depends on the individual and the circumstances).
  • CBT focuses on specific goals and behaviour change and provides practical strategies for coping with the issues that you are facing.
  • CBT teaches you ways of overcoming the problems you are facing with the aim to break the negative cycles.

CBT can help with a range of issues including:

  • Anger, Anxiety, Stress.
  • Eating Disorders, Body Dysmorphia.
  • Addictions including Alcohol and Drug Dependency.
  • Depression.
  • OCD, Panic, Phobias and Fears>
  • Relationships.
  • Work and Career Issues.

 

Gestalt Therapy:

Gestalt therapy is a humanistic therapy technique that focuses on gaining an awareness of emotions and behaviors in the present rather than in the past. The therapist does not interpret experiences for the patient. Instead, the therapist and patient work together to help the patient understand him/herself. This type of therapy focuses on experiencing the present situation rather than talking about what occurred in the past.

Patients are encouraged to become aware of immediate needs, meet them, and let them recede into the background. The well adjusted person is seen as someone who has a constant flow of needs and is able to satisfy those needs.

Purpose

In Gestalt therapy (from the German word meaning form), the major goal is self-awareness. Patients work on uncovering and resolving interpersonal issues during therapy. Unresolved issues are unable to fade into the background of consciousness because the needs they represent are never met. In Gestalt therapy, the goal is to discover people connected with a patient's unresolved issues and try to engage those people (or images of those people) in interactions that can lead to a resolution. Gestalt therapy is most useful for patients open to working on self-awareness.

Gestalt therapy has developed into a form of therapy that emphasizes medium to large groups, although many Gestalt techniques can be used in one-on-one therapy. Gestalt therapy probably has a greater range of formats than any other therapy technique. It is practiced in individual, couples, and family therapies.

Ideally, the patient identifies current sensations and emotions, particularly those that are painful or disruptive. Patients are confronted with their unconscious feelings and needs, and are assisted to accept and assert those repressed parts of themselves.The most powerful techniques involve roleplaying.

What is done in psychological therapy?

The person who goes to therapy takes a process accompanied by the psychologist who helps him/her realize what he/she does and how does it. It works from the needs, fears and difficulties that the person has at the present moment of his/her life, not excluding or disregard the impact of past experiences.

The therapeutic work of each session focuses on finding out, along with the patient, what happens in the present. What is it that has led him to develop a given disease (depression, anxiety, phobias, addictions, etc.) and experience a degree of suffering high enough to interfere with daily life. All this without forgetting your present can stay connected to past experiences or anticipating future fears.

The main goal of psychological therapy is that the patient extends the field of consciousness with its environment from a power consciousness in the here and now with you access to new and more satisfying possibilities. All aimed at equipping on individual with self-support to restore the lost balance that caused their current clinical disorder.

 

For whom is psychological Therapy suitable:

It is suitable for anyone who has difficulty handling the current events of his life.

The reasons why people tend to seek help are:

  • States of stress and anxiety that hinder a normal life
  • Depression, low mood
  • Have suffered a loss (death of a loved one, separation, work absenteeism or other traumatic event ....)
  • Low self-esteem
  • Phobias, fears
  • Relationship problems
  • Problems at work
  • Problems with parents or children
  • Problems with Food