The approach focuses on the here and now, client and counsellor work together developing a shared view of the current problem.

Work includes an understanding as to how thoughts, feelings and behaviours are linked.

Once this is achieved, personal goals and strategies are worked on to create a more helpful way of coping with your problem.  

 

New CBT Clinic available

 In this new clinic Bluesbegone will available to people without a personal computer or without the money to fund face to face CBT. Life Story Therapeutic Centre based in Reading has run a low cost counselling scheme for many years providing thousands of hours of virtually free counselling to the most vulnerable in the community. Now, with the launch of the Blues Begone Active Self Help Clinic, users will, for the first time, have access to CBT and evidence based treatment, ahead of the NHS.

Our solution to the lack of CBT therapy within the NHS and the private sector is to use the emerging technology of computerised CBT. Blues Begone™ delivers CBT on a private computer so users can access treatment daily, where they want it, when they want it.

This is a revolutionary method for the treatment of depression and anxiety. Blues Begone™ offers patients an alternative to seeing a counsellor, or a psychologist with a huge cost saving.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and what we do.  Cognitive-behavioural therapist teach that when our brains are healthy, it is our thinking that causes us to feel and act the way we do.  Therefore, if we are experiencing unwanted feelings and behaviors, it is important to identify the thinking that is causing the feelings / behaviors and to learn how to replace this thinking with thoughts that lead to more desirable reactions.

There are several approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy, including Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, Rational Behaviour Therapy, Rational Living Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Dialectic Behaviour Therapy.

CBT is a short-term talking treatment that has a highly practical approach to problem-solving. It aims to change patterns of thinking or behaviour that are behind people’s difficulties, and so change the way they feel.

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) describes a number of therapies that all have a similar approach to solving problems, which can range from sleeping difficulties or relationship problems, to drug and alcohol abuse or anxiety and depression

CBT works by changing people's attitudes and their behaviour. The therapies focus on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that we hold (our cognitive processes) and how this relates to the way we behave, as a way of dealing with emotional problems.

An important advantage of CBT is that it tends to be short, taking three to six months for most emotional problems. Clients attend a session a week, each session lasting either 50 minutes or an hour. During this time, the client and therapist are working together to understand what the problems are and to develop a new strategy for tackling them

CBT is a combination of psychotherapy and behavioural therapy.

Psychotherapy emphasises the importance of the personal meaning we place on things and how thinking patterns begin in childhood.

Behavioural therapy pays close attention to the relationship between our problems, our behaviour and our thoughts