CBT group for Anxiety and Depression

The CBT Group for anxiety and depression is a short-term treatment approach. Its goal is to helps individuals become aware of their depressive or anxious thought patterns and behaviours.  In each session, participants learn specific skills to help themselves feel better, cope with and manage their difficulties and decrease the risk of future relapse.

Participants of this CBT group for anxiety and depression will learn how to:

• Challenge and Stop Negative Thoughts – To recognize distorted thinking and respond to your thoughts in a different way that does not lead to anxiety or depression
• Proven strategies – To challenge your negative thoughts and stop ruminating
• Develop new healthy core beliefs and behaviours – How to engage in behaviours that are consistent with your values
• Change unhelpful thinking patterns and develop new ways of thinking
• Create behavioural experiments to overcome anxious or depressive beliefs
• Prepare Action Plans to solve daily difficulties
• Question own negative core beliefs, (chronic and deep-rooted thinking and behavioural patterns) such as “I am inadequate” or ”Nobody likes me”

Benefits Of Group Therapy

There are various benefits of attending a therapy group. These include:

• Receiving the support of others with similar difficulties
• Learning how to feel better and take positive actions
• Receiving psycho-education about mental illness and how to manage it
• An increased sense of hope as a result of feeling in control of their own mental health

For more information and to register: https://cbtpsychology.com/group-therapy/