Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

We offer cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents with anxiety, mood, anger and other emotional regulation difficulties. CBT is an evidence-based intervention, which is tailored to each individual’s needs. Clients’ learn to identify, challenge and change the thoughts, attitudes and beliefs related to the emotional and behavioural reactions that cause them difficulty.

By monitoring and recording thoughts during upsetting situations, people learn that how they think can contribute to emotional problems such as depression and anxiety. CBT helps to reduce these emotional problems by teaching clients to:

• identify distortions in their thinking
• see thoughts as ideas about what is going on, rather than as facts
• stand back from their thinking to consider situations from different viewpoints