Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based therapeutic approach used by healthcare services around the world including the NHS. It is primarily used to treat anxiety and depressive disorders.
CBT is based on the concept that your thoughts, feelings and behaviours are interconnected, and that negative patterns of thinking and behaving are what maintain problems such as anxiety and depression.
Unlike many other therapies, CBT focuses more on your current problems in the here-and-now rather than issues from your past.
During therapy sessions, we will work together to identify the specific maintenance cycles of your problems and find solutions to interrupt them.
Here is a short video from The British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) which explains more about CBT.