How can cognitive behavioral therapy help you?

It avoids hierarchical relationships, builds on partnership between the psychologist and the client, where both parties are equal, and both put in their work in the process. This therapeutic system has started to play a major role in couples therapy practice in recent years, as behind dysfunctional relational interactions we often find cognitive distortions (“My partner never appreciates any of my efforts”) and relationship beliefs (“Jealousy means they really love me”). These patterns can all be changed by adopting cognitive therapy ways of thinking. 

What does this mean in practice?

Our thoughts create feelings. These feelings determine how we behave, and then our behavior generates new thoughts and feelings in us. However, in many cases, these thoughts go astray, completely avoiding reality — they are dysfunctional, they do not serve us and risk our mental well-being. As a result of dysfunctional thoughts, we produce maladaptive (ineffective, poorly adaptive) behavior patterns, leading certain areas of our life — like our sex life, relationships, and self-reflection — to take a negative turn.

The goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to change dysfunctional thinking and behavior patterns, resulting in a positive change in our mood and behavior. The method's toolbox helps develop the ability to monitor yourself, making you sensitive to your own mindset and the ways of the world. You receive help to change your views, opinions, and thoughts that hinder your daily life. You develop new attitudes, which make you interpret information and stimuli from the world differently, leading you to react and act differently, ultimately feeling differently. 

This therapeutic method is very interesting, exciting, and varied, and absolutely suitable for eliminating everyday anxieties. It is clearly justified for use in the treatment of anxiety, depression, panic disorder, compulsiveness, phobias, sexual disorders, lack of self-confidence, stress, and life management hurdles.