Cognitive behavioural therapy
An approach working with the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, usually structured and time-limited.
What it means
The premise is that we don’t respond to an event directly, but through the interpretation we give it. So the work is on interpretations and on the behaviour that maintains them. It has the most research behind it for anxiety and insomnia.
What we do with it in therapy
It isn’t my central approach, but I use particular tools from it — especially when working with rumination, anxiety and insomnia.
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See also
Window of tolerance
The range of arousal in which you can feel and think at the same time; above it you're overwhelmed, below it numb.
Assertiveness
A way of expressing yourself that takes account of your needs and the other person's dignity at once.
Health anxiety
Persistent worry about your health, which examinations and results don't settle for long.
