What to expect - CBT

  • Developing a Therapeutic relationship
  • Active work
  • Collaboration
  • Structured agenda set in each session
  • Time limited, brief and focussed: typically 50-60 minute sessions weekly or two weekly over 8-12 sessions
  • Problem focussed
  • Goal focussed
  • Present orientated : ‘here and now’
  • Educational, focus on learning new ways of being and thinking
  • Homework
  • Case formulation/conceptualisation
  • Socratic questioning/guided discovery