Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy helps a person to unravel the tangle of his problems, which he came to as a result of the habitual way of thinking, formed in early childhood and reinforced throughout life. Helps identify strengths and weaknesses. Change dysfunctional beliefs and response patterns using various techniques, behavioral experiments, and learn self-control. The first thing CBT teaches is to monitor your thoughts, emotions, and sensations in your body. After all, the way we think, evaluate ourselves, situations, people and the world directly affects our attitude and reactions. In CBT, the therapist follows the client. She does not impose her vision or ways of solving problems on him, but together, based on the client’s resources and capabilities, helps him find those very answers within himself. Non-judgmental perception helps the therapist understand the depth of the client’s experiences and find suitable techniques for him and teach them. The essence of therapy is to teach the client to be his own support, assistant, therapist. The psyche has its own system that helps it function. It's like wheels that spin and pull a cart. Imagine that the wheels are our system. If the wheel is dented, the cart will roll with great difficulty. So the therapist’s task is to help see the reason why the cart is rolling poorly due to dented wheels. And together with the client, find ways to make these wheels rounder again in order to ride more smoothly along the road of life. In CBT, everything about the client is important. Its present and future and even past, because it was there that the beginnings of today's problems were located. We are all prone to thinking errors. There are many cognitive distortions and habitual responses. For example, if a person is accustomed to assessing any event as “horror, horror and there is no way out,” then after some time this can lead him to depression. And the therapist’s task will be to help learn a realistic assessment of events, learn to act in a situation, and not give up. For example, a person is used to thinking to himself that he is unhappy. And thoughts sound in his head: The worst always happens to me. I'm exhausted. Fate is not fair to me. I'm a martyr. Everyone uses me, etc. And such a person begins to build relationships and finds an aggressor to confirm his sacrifice. And when he comes to therapy, he learns to think differently and evaluate his actions, separating himself from them and not identifying himself with them as a completely bad person, and his life changes accordingly. Or another example. Since childhood, a person has become accustomed to worrying about everything, being afraid, and not trusting. Characteristic thoughts flash through my head: “The world is dangerous. You can't trust anyone. Everything needs to be monitored. I have to control everything. Something will definitely happen to me.” And using this kind of thinking over and over again, a person suddenly discovers strange symptoms in the body, which will later turn out to be Panic Attacks. This is how, gradually, with the help of thinking, a person hones and consolidates a certain attitude towards himself, the world, people and wraps himself in various problems. But there is very good news! Just as our psyche is capable of confusing itself, it can also unravel any problem or at least alleviate it with the help of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Contact us! Let's unravel together!