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Every good therapist specializes in a few therapy styles. Mine happen to be ACT and CBT. If you’ve researched your disorder, you have no doubt run into the term “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” for instance… but what exactly is CBT? We will discuss that and more here.

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Every good therapist specializes in a few therapy styles. Mine happen to be ACT and CBT. If you’ve researched your disorder, you have no doubt run into the term “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” for instance… but what exactly is CBT? We will discuss that and more here.

COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY(CBT)

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WHAT IS CBT?

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COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY(CBT) is the most scientific and popular psychotherapy. Many experts believe that it is the gold-standard among all kinds of therapies. The course of therapy is usually short, between 5 to 20 sessions. You may have one to two sessions per week with your therapist, while each session may last 30 to 60 minutes.

CBT focuses on current problems rather than childhood issues. Based on CBT concepts thoughts, emotions and behaviors are interconnected and reframing thoughts is essential for changing emotions and behaviors in CBT. CBT is not just for the treatment of disorders. It is also good for learning how to better manage stressful life situations. Your function and quality of life would improve after CBT sessions and you will be free of negative thoughts and emotions vicious cycle.

CBT is a useful tool to address emotional issues. For example, it may help you:
• Improve mental illness
• Prevent a relapse after cure
• It is so useful when medications can’t be consider
• How to cope with stressful life situations
• Manage and regulate emotions
• Overcome grief and loss
• Treat emotional trauma caused by abuse or violence

• Improve your response to a medical condition
• Handle and improve chronic physical symptoms
• Practice better ways to communicate and resolve relationship conflicts

ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY(ACT)

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ACT'S DEFINITION

The objective of ACT is not the eradication of uncomfortable and burdensome feelings and emotions that is why it differs from CBT which helps people to learn how to control their cognitions, emotions, and behavior. ACT formulize psychological sufferings by the interface between language and cognition mediated by psychological inflexibility. ACT tries to move us toward “valued behavior”.

In Act, you learn to open up to unpleasant feelings as well as not to overact to them. You should also not avoid situations where unpleasant feelings are invoked. Feeling better spirally leads to a better understanding of the truth. Here, truth equals “workability”. How can we step forward to what matters? “What matters” in terms of values and meaning. Steven C. Hayes developed acceptance and commitment therapy in 1982. It is based on B. F. Skinner’s philosophy of Radical Behaviorism

ACT is a generic therapy for a wide spectrum of problems. It considers the core of many problems represented in the acronym FEAR.
Fusion with thoughts
Evaluation of experience
Avoidance of experience
Reason-giving for behavior

They should be replaced by ACT:
Acceptance reactions and focus on present
Choose a valued direction
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