Although I use a variety of counselling modes, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the more successful therapy practices to help with:

 

  1. learning to manage powerful emotions like anger, fear, or sadness

  2. dealing with grief

  3. managing symptoms or preventing mental illness relapses

  4. coping with physical health problems

  5. conflict resolution

  6. improving communication skills

  7. assertiveness training

About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The key principle behind CBT is that your thought patterns effect your emotions, which, in turn, can affect your behaviors.

Depending on the issue you're dealing with and your goals, there are several ways to approach CBT:

 

 - identifying specific problems or issues in your daily life

-  becoming aware of unproductive thought patters and how they can impact your life

-  identifying negative thinking and reshaping it in a way that changes how you feel

-  learning new behaviors and putting them into practice

 

 

CBT Techniques

 

1.  Cognitive restructuring or reframing

2.  Guided Discovery

3.  Exposure Therapy

4.  Journaling and thought records

5.  Activity scheduling and behavior activation

6.  Behavioral experiments

7.  Relaxation and stress reduction therapies

8.  Role playing

9.  Successive approximation