Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
In CBT, your therapist takes an active part in solving your problems. He or she doesn't settle for just nodding wisely while you carry the whole burden of finding the answers you came to therapy for.
You will receive a thorough diagnostic workup at the beginning of treatment - to make sure your needs and problems have been throughly identified.

This crucial step - which is often only goven cursory attention or omitted altogether in traditional kinds of therapy - results in an explicit, understandable, and flexible treatment plan that accurately reflects your own individual needs.
In many ways CBT resembles education, coaching or tutoring. Under expert guidance, as a CBT client, you will share in setting treatment goals and in deciding which techniques work best for you personally.
CBT is a holistic therapy which works simultaneously on how you feel, think and what you do. It is especially suitable for anxiety and depression based disorders such as the following:

Anxiety States
- stress and its symptoms such as insomnia
- generalized or free-floating anxiety
- panic attacks
- social anxiety, self-consciousness
- health anxiety, hypochrondria

Depression
- lack of motivation
- low self-esteem
- low mood, negative thinking etc.

Phobic Disorders
- phobias of one thing (heights,spiders, etc.)
- social phobia (shyness, fear of blushing)
- agoraphobia and other complex phobias

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
- constant checking, cleaning, or counting
- rituals, either physical or mental

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- resulting from assault, robbery, road accidents etc

CBT is behavioural and cognitive (the way you do things and the way you think about things) - a fuller guide to CBT can be found at the website of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

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