Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBT) is a direction of psychotherapy with scientific validity and proven effectiveness, which makes it the method of choice in the treatment of diseases such as anxiety-phobic disorders, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, eating disorders, various addictions and others. CBT also successfully works with a variety of problems and difficulties that do not have the status of a “disorder”, but significantly worsen the quality of people’s lives. Features of the therapy also include its relative short-term nature and ease of use by the patient. When choosing cognitive behavioral therapy, the patient must become familiar with the concepts of “ABC model” and “automatic thoughts.” CBT says that any problems will be viewed from the perspective of thoughts that arise in response to different situations or triggers, which will entail emotional reactions and different behaviors or lack of behaviors, such as avoidance. Automatic thoughts are thoughts or images that spontaneously arise in our mind. They are characterized by involuntary, evaluative, fleeting, and are also perceived by us as facts, although upon examination in detail you can see the lack of evidence and the lack of real facts that can confirm their veracity. The therapist will also introduce you to the thinking errors that occur in absolutely all people, including or other quantity. Sometimes this will require adjustment, for example, if the task is to develop more adaptive and useful thinking. There are times when adjustments are not necessary. From my practice, I can note common thinking errors (cognitive distortions) such as “mind reading” - when people are confident that they know exactly what others are thinking, “catastrophizing” - people are confident that the worst outcome will definitely happen and they do not they will endure, “black and white thinking” - when perceived events have two polarities - “good or bad”, “all or nothing”. In general, there are about 20 thinking errors, and cognitive psychology is only expanding the list. The strategy for working in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will be determined by the therapist based on several parameters. Clinical or non-clinical is the case, as well as the actual goals of the client. As a rule, working with a diagnosed disorder requires working according to a protocol with evidence-based effectiveness; if there is no disorder, but there are difficulties and problems that a person wants to overcome with the help of therapy, the strategy will be based on the problems that the patient came with and what he would like change them. In other words, what goals would he like to achieve in therapy. What will happen in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy if the patient chooses this method of work? The CBT therapist will collaborate with the patient, which means that any protocols and techniques will be justified, their goals and possible results will be explained. The therapist will discuss case conceptualization with the patient - these are hypotheses formulated by the therapist and voiced to the patient about what formed, is shaping and continues to maintain the presence of a problem or disorder in a person's life. Conceptualization helps to generate further hypotheses needed to solve problems and overcome disorders. If CBT is necessary, the therapist recommends that you consult a doctor for advice on psychosomatic treatment and possible selection of medications, since for some types of disorders this may be a prerequisite for further successful therapy. In cognitive behavioral therapy, there is a structure for therapeutic sessions - a meeting agenda. It is formed together with the client and is always focused on specific goals and objectives of therapy formulated by the client. Following the meeting, the therapist requests feedback to clarify and more accurately understand the dynamics of the therapeutic process. The therapist can also find out about the difficulties that arise.