Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. It's most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression, but can be useful for other mental and physical health problems. Unlike some other treatments, cognitive behavioral therapy deals with your current problems, rather than focusing on issues from your past.  It looks for practical ways to improve your state of mind on a daily basis. A certain amount of information about one's history is needed, but the focus is primarily on moving forward in time to develop more effective ways of coping with life.

 

 

Nostra Forza offers online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. As online psychologist I am a recognized cognitive behavioral therapist and supervisor at the Association for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (VGCt) . For questions about online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, other treatment methods or my therapy rates , please contact me via the contact form . 

 

 

According to official guidelines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the first choice psychological treatment for anxiety symptoms and anxiety disorders (including social anxiety disorder, panic attacks, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, anxiety and binding separation anxiety), depression and mood swings, job-related complaints such as overstrain, excessive worry, fatigue and burnout symptoms.

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Typical of the cognitive behavioral therapist or psychologist is that you are actively encouraged to discuss your problems in an open manner. The cognitive behavioral therapist will actively look for bottlenecks and solutions with you. It does not dwell too long on the past: it is rather about your current problems and how you can try to avoid them in the future. Certain concrete goals are regularly set.

Through thinking and behavioral exercises in practice, open conversations and possible home preparations, you will try to bring those goals within reach.

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Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a combination of two forms of psychotherapy: cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy.

In online CBT Therapy the behaviors and thoughts that maintain the problems are discussed and treated. Scientific research shows that online CBT Therapy is effective in many mental health problems, such as anxiety symptoms and anxiety disorders, depression, burnout and more.

 

Cognitive therapy is about your mindset and your emotions. When you approach important issues and events in your life from a negative point of view, you have a higher risk to develop anxiety symptoms, depression, mood swings or work-related problems such as burnout.

 

Imagine, for example, that at night you are lying in your bed and you hear a loud noise. You may be thinking ' oh dear, a burglar ', you panic and call the police. You can also think ' that cat, the cat has certainly broken something ‘, you become irritated, go downstairs and clean up the mess. This is an example of how one situation (you are lying in your bed and hear a loud noise) can be explained by the way you interpret the situation.

With psychological symptoms, it works more or less the same. People have learned to think in a certain way about a situation, causing them to experience negative feelings and thereby exhibit certain behaviors that they do not want. In cognitive behavioral therapy the therapist asks you to take a better look at your mindset or thought patterns. It is your own interpretation of the situation that creates non-helping feelings. By working with journal forms you will get more insight into your thoughts and you are better able to reduce your negative feelings and adjust your behavior in desired behavior. So the goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to teach you to develop helping thought patterns. If people change their way of thinking, this also changes how they are feeling.

 

Behavioral therapy focuses on changing your behavior. How you act determines to a large extent how you are feeling. Behavioral therapy is focused on helping you understand how changing your behavior can lead to changes in how you are feeling. The goal of behavior therapy is usually focused on increasing the person’s engagement in positive or socially reinforcing activities.

 

Behavioral therapy is a structured approach that carefully measures what the person is doing and then seeks to increase chances for positive experience. In behavioral therapy, for example, you will learn to stay relaxed in situations that previously caused irrational fear. In this way, psychological symptoms are reduced.

 

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