Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).

Cognitive Behavioural therapy is a proven problem-solving approach developed by Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s. It is designed to help individuals identify and change destructive thought patterns that have a negative influence on emotions and behaviour.

What Cognitive Behavioural Therapy could give you?

When we examine these thinking patterns, we typically discover inaccuracies, referred to as cognitive distortions.

In cognitive therapy, individuals are taught to identify their negative thoughts and replace them with more accurate, adaptive, and helpful ones.

The therapist’s role is to provide a range of cognitive, behavioural, and experimental strategies to alleviate the patient’s suffering.

The major goal is helping patients change their lives by interrupting cycles of unproductive thoughts and problematic behaviours and consequently, building new adaptive patterns of living.

Personal recovery.

Personal recovery states the life with a meaning and purpose is achievable for everybody. The process of recovery itself should be highly individualized to suit the needs, personal story and environment of each patient. It is a holistic approach, where not only personal identity plays a vital part in patient’s therapeutic practice, but also patient’s cultural identity and personal interests. Personal recovery sees a therapist as a collaborator. Somebody who is choosing a way to recovery together with patient, fully respecting patient’s identity.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a type of psychotherapy that involves a combination of cognitive therapy with mindful techniques such as meditation or relaxation. The MBCT approach has been subjected to scientific research and found especially useful in treating panic attacks, panic disorder, anxiety and reducing chronic pain.

It teaches patients to consciously pay attention to their thoughts and feelings without placing any judgement upon them.

Existential area.

This approach addressed anxieties resulting from more fundamental understandings about one’s self and one’s world. As these shape one’s perception of reality, they can have a profound effect on anxiety.

Working with the Socratic Questioning and drawing on the insights of philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche or Jean-Paul Sartre is an approach that helps deconstructing one’s fundamental understanding and creates space for a radical change of the perspective of one’s self and one’s reality.