CBT Anxiety Sessions

CBT Anxiety Sessions

CBT anxiety sessions helps alleviate a range of anxiety disorders including stress, obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks. These are cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) sessions that work via a gradual exposure to the underlying fear. The reason for this is that the fear response has been conditioned and that avoiding the fear only stimulates, reinforces and permits the fear. Exposing the stimulus, allows the conditioned behaviour to be unlearned and the anxiety to dissipate.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive compulsive Disorder(OCD)is typically treated using proven cognitive behavioural therapy techniques including exposure and response prevention.

Social Phobia

Social Phobia has often been treated with exposure coupled with cognitive restructuring. Evidence suggests that cognitive behavioural interventions (CBT) improves the result of social phobia treatment.

Panic Attacks

The CBT sessions for panic attacks primarily focus on identifying and changing inappropriate thoughts and patterns that contribute to the panic attacks. The CBT sessions use proven cognitive behavioural therapy techniqus to work on various strategies to help you dissipate core fears and help you cope with the situation. Through the sessions you learn how and why the body responds in such a way to feared situations, how to monitor the symptoms of panic, use of breathing and relaxation techniques as coping tools, thought restructuring and exposure therapy.

Generalised Anxiety Disorders

Using cognitive behavioural therapy for generalised anxiety has medical proof of success:

Generalised Anxiety Disorder has shown to be effectively treated with CBT and possibly more effective than pharmacological treatments in the long term.

One study of patients undergoing benzodiazepine withdrawal who had been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder showed those who received CBT had a very high success rate of discontinuing benzodiazepines compared to those who did not receive CBT anxiety treatment. This success rate was maintained at 12 month follow up. Furthermore in patients who had discontinued benzodiazepines it was found that they no longer met the diagnosis of general anxiety disorder and that patients no longer meeting the diagnosis of general anxiety disorder was higher in the group who received CBT. Thus CBT can be an effective tool to add to a gradual benzodiazepine dosage reduction program leading to improved and sustained mental health benefits. (Gosselin P, Ladouceur R, Morin CM, Dugas MJ, Baillargeon L (October 2006). "Benzodiazepine discontinuation among adults with GAD: A randomized trial of cognitive-behavioral therapy". J Consult Clin Psychol).

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