Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Your thoughts shape how you feel. And how you feel shapes what you do. CBT helps you break that cycle, in a practical, proven way.
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
CBT combines two perspectives: cognitive therapy, which focuses on your thoughts, and behavioural therapy, which focuses on your behaviour. Together they form one of the most researched and proven therapies in the world.
Your thoughts, feelings and behaviour constantly influence each other. Negative thoughts trigger unpleasant feelings, which lead to avoidant behaviour, which then confirms the negative thoughts. CBT breaks that spiral.
How does it work?
The cognitive part: thoughts
Automatic thoughts like 'I'll never manage this' feel like facts, but aren't. CBT teaches you to recognise, examine and replace them with helpful, realistic thoughts.
The behavioural part: what you do
Avoidance maintains anxiety. CBT confronts you step by step with what you avoid, so you discover it's more bearable than you thought.
What can you expect?
Together with your therapist, you map out which thought and behaviour patterns maintain your complaints.
You learn to recognise those patterns, examine them, and replace them with helpful alternatives.
You actively practise, also outside sessions, with behavioural experiments and exercises.
You build skills that you can continue using after treatment, preventing relapse.
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Source: Butler et al. (2006), Clinical Psychology Review · NICE Guidelines 2023 · Trimbos Guidelines