Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

 
What Is CBT?

CBT is an evidence‑based approach that starts with the understanding that our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours all interact. It’s practical and collaborative, focusing on what’s happening in the present while also offering space to make sense of patterns you’d like to change and what may have contributed to their development.

If you are looking for something that feels clear and structured, and are interested in exploring how small shifts can create meaningful change over time, CBT may be a good fit for you. Many people find it empowering to learn skills they can continue using long after therapy ends.

How CBT Works & What Sessions Feel Like

We’ll begin by exploring how certain patterns developed and what may be maintaining them now. From there, we’ll work together to implement realistic changes that help you live more in line with your values and goals. CBT for example helps you notice unhelpful thinking habits, understand how they influence your feelings and actions, and gently experiment with new ways of responding. Sessions often include guided reflection, learning new skills, and trying small, manageable changes between sessions so that progress continues outside the therapy room.

Although CBT is grounded in a shared set of principles about how mood and anxiety-related difficulties develop and are maintained, the exact techniques we use will depend on our shared understanding of your experiences and your hopes for therapy.

What CBT Can Help With

CBT is widely used for difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, worry, panic, phobias, and stress. It can also support people navigating perfectionism, self‑criticism, or long‑standing patterns that feel hard to shift.

Together we’ll begin developing a personalised map informed by the CBT framework that brings together different aspects of your difficulties, helping us to identify patterns and cycles that we want to focus on in line with your goals. CBT generally works best if you’re seeking practical tools to address current patterns you feel stuck in and are curious about trying out new ways of responding.

CBT at The Reframe Room

CBT at The Reframe Room is collaborative and paced with care. You won’t be told what to think or do - instead, we work together to understand what’s getting in the way of living in a way that feels right for you and build tools that genuinely fit your life.

You may not know exactly where you want to begin, but if you’ve found your way here you may already have noticed patterns that feel hard to break, or you may want to understand why certain situations trigger certain reactions. Maybe you’re stuck worrying, overthinking, having panic attacks, feeling low, or criticising and doubting yourself. We’ll start with what feels most relevant right now and navigate the rest together from there.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin