Strategic Development / Peak Performance 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Coaching:
 
Cognitive behavioral therapy, more commonly referred to as CBT,  focuses on the way people think and act in order to help them overcome their emotional and behavioral problems.

 
Understanding CBT:
 
 Cognitive behavioral therapy is a school of psychotherapy that aims to help people overcome their emotional problems.

-  Cognitive means mental processes like thinking. The word ‘cognitive’ refers to everything that goes on in your mind including dreams, memories, images, thoughts, and attention. 

-  Behaviour refers to everything that you do. This includes what you say, how you try to solve problems, how you act, and avoidance. Behaviour refers to both action and inaction, for example biting your tongue instead of speaking your mind is still a Behaviour even though you are trying not to do something. 

-  Therapy is a word used to describe a systematic approach to combating a problem, illness, or irregular condition. A central concept in CBT is that you feel the way you think. 

           Therefore, CBT works on the principle that you can live more happily and productively if you’re thinking in healthy ways. This principle is a very simple way of summing up CBT. Combining science, philosophy, and behaviour CBT is a powerful treatment because it combines scientific, philosophical, and behavioural aspects into one comprehensive approach to understanding and overcoming common psychological problems. 


Getting scientific:

CBT is scientific not only in the sense that it has been tested and developed through numerous scientific studies, but also in the sense that it encourages clients to become more like scientists.

 For example, during CBT, you may develop the ability to treat your thoughts as theories and hunches about reality to be tested (what scientists call hypotheses), rather than as facts. 

 
Getting philosophical:

 CBT recognizes that people hold values and beliefs about themselves, the world, and other people. One of the aims of CBT is to help people develop flexible, non-extreme, and self-helping beliefs that help them adapt to reality and pursue their goals. Your problems are not all just in your mind.

 Although CBT places great emphasis on thoughts and behaviour as powerful areas to target for change and development, it also places your thoughts and behaviors within a context. 

CBT recognizes that you’re influenced by what’s going on around you and that your environment makes a contribution towards the way you think, feel, and act. 

However, CBT maintains that you can make a difference to the way you feel by changing unhelpful ways of thinking and behaving – even if you can’t change your environment.

Incidentally, your environment in the context of CBT includes other people and the way they behave towards you. 


Getting active:

 As the name suggests, CBT also strongly emphasizes behaviour. Many CBT techniques involve changing the way you think and feel by modifying the way you behave. Examples include gradually becoming more active if you’re depressed and lethargic (lack of energy, laziness, being constantly tired), or facing your fears step by step if you’re anxious. 

CBT also places emphasis on mental behaviors, such as worrying and where you focus your attention.