PRIVATE CBT THERAPY : WHAT TO EXPECT

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT is an evidence-based approach that helps you make sense of the difficulties you are experiencing. We might have developed unhelpful thinking and behavioural patterns that we aren’t always aware of, and therapy can help you explore this further. Once you have an understanding of why you are struggling, we can work together to bring about change so that you are able to lead a more fulfilling and purposeful life.

Our thoughts impact how we feel and what we do, and can actually maintain some of the challenges you are facing. Different to counselling, CBT is a collaborative therapy approach where we will work together to develop new ways of moving forwards, often through setting experiments and testing things out in between sessions.

You will learn new skills that will stay with you beyond therapy, which normally lasts between 6 and 20 sessions. With private therapy, you are in control of what you want to commit to and I can cater sessions to your practical and financial needs, including spacing out appointments.

CBT is generally a structured therapy, and some clients enjoy the boundaries of this however other people prefer a balance of structure with space to bring other things to sessions. Again, one of the benefits of accessing private CBT is that therapy is not done ‘to you’, one of the criticisms that come from some people who have had time limited sessions within the NHS.