My guest this evening was Jenny Rooks, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, or CBT for short.
CBT is a relatively new approach to counselling or psychotherapy. Instead of raking over old issues, it tends to focus more on the here and now. It teaches techniques to allow you to move forward with your life, instead of dwelling on past failures and possible fears.
CBT can help with a wide variety of conditions. Stress is the one that springs to mind most easily, but what is stress? It is the response to a situation that causes us to feel emotionally off balance. It can cause depression, anger, irritability. It can be as a result of a trauma, accident or bereavement.
If you’ve tried everything you can to relieve stress, such as meditation, diet exercise and still can’t seem to shift the problem, then it could be the time to look towards CBT.
CBT allows you the space to create a different future for yourself. The effects are long lasting and transferrable to many other areas of your life. To find out more you can look at Jenny’s website : www.jennyrooks.co.uk , or look on the internet for registered professionals in your area.
