Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that allows us to consider the way that thoughts, feelings, physical symptoms and behaviours may be interacting to exacerbate and maintain issues such as depression and anxiety in the here-and-now. This approach also considers your childhood and adolescence, looking at what you learned about yourself, other people and the world, the things you did to ‘get by’ in that childhood/adolescent context, and how this has shaped the beliefs and behavioural patterns that may be leading to undesirable outcomes for you in the present day.

The ‘British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies’ have prepared an information page and video explaining more about this approach, which you can find here – https://babcp.com/What-is-CBT