Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is a type of mental health therapy that involves helping you to gain an understanding of your individual thoughts and behaviours and looks at how to make changes to help break unhelpful cycles of thinking and/or behaving that keep your problems going. CBT enables you to learn tools and techniques that can help you take control of your problems and ultimately become your own therapist so that you can develop resilience to future mental health problems.

CBT has been found by a vast amount of research to be one of the most effective forms of psychological treatment for many common mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, health anxiety and work or exam stress and can also help with deeper rooted issues such as low self-esteem, low confidence, relationship difficulties and personality disorders. 

CBT differs from counselling, in that it is a goal-directed, active therapy that is focused on both helping understand where problems may have arisen from as well as helping you make changes in the here and now in order to help overcome your difficulties and move forward. CBT can be flexible and an appropriate amount of treatment, delivered by a competent therapist can usually help you, no matter how long you have been experiencing difficulties. 

We offer individual courses of Cognitive behavioural therapy, conducted face to face in our clinic rooms, or by video or by telephone, subject to your preference. Treatment sessions are usually up to 1 hour long and prices start at £80 for up to one hour. The number of sessions required will vary depending upon your individual needs, which we will always discuss after your initial assessment and prior to moving forward into treatment. Most treatment courses, on average, require somewhere between 6 and 15 sessions.