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Approach: CBT

Cognitive behavioral therapy, in plain terms.

CBT looks at the loop between what you think, what you feel and what you then do, and works on the point in that loop where change is actually available.

In Session

What a CBT-oriented session tends to include.

  • Picking one real situation from the week rather than the topic in general
  • Slowing it down to find the thought that fired first
  • Testing that thought against what you actually know
  • Naming the behavior the thought produced
  • Agreeing on something small to try before next time
  • Reviewing how the experiment went, honestly

Who tends to find it useful

People who like structure, who want something to do between sessions, and who are tired of insight that never converts into a different Tuesday.

It is frequently the entry point for anxiety, depression, burnout and ADHD-related self-criticism, and it pairs easily with other approaches rather than replacing them.

What it is not

CBT is not positive thinking, and Amber will not ask you to reframe something that is genuinely bad. If a thought is accurate, the work moves to what you do about it.

It is also not the whole of therapy here. Where a pattern has older roots or lives more in the body than in language, we use psychodynamic, somatic or parts-based work instead.

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