What Is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
An Evidence-Based Approach to Change the Way You Think and Feel
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a goal-oriented approach that helps you understand how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are connected. It's one of the most widely used—and researched—forms of therapy for challenges like anxiety, depression, and self-doubt. Together, we’ll explore patterns that may be keeping you stuck and develop tools to shift them so you can feel more grounded, empowered, and in control of your life.
How CBT Works in Therapy
Practical Tools and Guided Insight
CBT helps you recognize common thinking traps—like assuming the worst or jumping to conclusions about what others think or what might happen. Through guided reflection, we’ll look at how these patterns show up in your life and what keeps them going.
In sessions, we’ll build practical skills—like calming your body, challenging unhelpful thoughts, and responding to yourself with more compassion. You’ll also practise using these tools in everyday situations, so change can take root between sessions—not just during them.
What CBT Can Help With
Support for Anxiety, Depression, Self-Esteem, and More
CBT is especially effective for addressing anxiety, depression, negative self-talk, perfectionism, and low self-worth. It can also help with procrastination, relationship challenges, or navigating transitions.
If you often feel overwhelmed by your thoughts or caught in the same cycles, CBT offers a way forward—one that’s focused, compassionate, and grounded in change.
A Personalized CBT Experience
Therapy Tailored to You—Not Just a Workbook
CBT offers a structured framework, but how we use it depends entirely on your goals, preferences, and what feels most supportive for you. I take a collaborative, client-centred approach—blending CBT with strength-based, psychodynamic, and person-centred techniques.
In therapy, we’ll build practical skills together—and it’s the practice between sessions where real, lasting change takes root. While some clients find worksheets or structured tools helpful, written homework is always optional. I’ll offer those resources if they seem like a good fit, and you’re free to use them—or not—depending on what feels most helpful to you.
Why CBT Works
Evidence-Based and Empowering
CBT is backed by decades of research and clinical success. But more importantly, it can help you feel more capable and less at the mercy of your thoughts. You’ll gain skills to navigate stress, setbacks, and self-doubt with greater clarity and resilience.
Many clients find CBT to be both grounding and motivating—because change feels real and achievable.
You’re Not Stuck—Change Is Possible
CBT gives you the tools to shift your thinking, strengthen your confidence, and move forward with intention.
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