What is cognitive-behaviour therapy?

Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) focuses on thoughts and helps develop strategies to enable change

When working with a cognitive-behaviour therapist or psychologist using cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT), the focus of therapy is on recognising the thoughts we have and how they relate to what we feel or do, and then developing strategies to think more positively or realistically to help us feel better and enable change.

Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) is a structured talking therapy

Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) is a 'talking therapy' like counselling, but it is more structured and places greater emphasis on techniques to understand why we feel the way we do and then to make changes accordingly. This often means clients undertaking specific tasks or activities outwith sessions, such as keeping a note of situations that seem to invoke feelings of distress (such as anxiety) or trying out new ways of doing things to see if what we believe/fear actually comes true. These are called 'experiments'.

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Practitioners offering cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) at our Glasgow centre:

Professor Ewan Gillon, Counselling Psychologist
Dr Maria Gascon, Counselling Psychologist
Dr Lisa Harrow, Clinical Psychologist
Dr Lisa Gadon, Clinical Psychologist
Dr Gerald McNinch, Counselling Psychologist / Couples Therapist
Dr Krista Rajkarnikar, Counselling Psychologist
Dr Laura Taylor, Counselling Psychologist
Tony Scratcherd, CBT therapist / Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner