What is CBT?

Cognitive behavioural therapy is:
- An evidenced-based psychological treatment or ‘talking therapy’
- Highly structured
- Goal orientated
- Concerned with emotions, unhelpful thinking and behaviour
- Collaborative
- Based on a coherent treatment rationale informed by cognitive theory
- Based on a psychological formulation to understand the factors that led to the problem
- Applied between sessions through the practice of skills and experiments as homework tasks