A story on the BBC website detailing one man’s very positive experience of working with CBT – to pre-empt any accusation of therapy-bashing, I think it’s worth a look!
A couple of points that I think are interesting…
‘Psychotherapy was not a success and then a friend of the family suggested he had cognitive behavioural therapy’ – my understanding was that CBT was a particular modality of psychotherapy, but the article here suggests it’s rather a ‘talking treatment’ and the practitioner is a ‘CBT coach’ rather than a therapist.
And the acknowledgement from the chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, that ‘”there is no one-size-fits-all therapy and, as with medication, people sometimes need to try a few alternatives to find the one that’s most helpful for them whether that’s CBT, counselling, group therapy or psychotherapy”‘. Again this seems to be making a distinction between CBT, counselling and psychotherapy, which intrigues me.
www.wayforwardcounselling.co.uk
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