Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorder

anxiety disorder therapy pretoria cbtAn anxiety disorder is a category of mental disorder affecting general or specific areas in life.
Symptoms include worry, restlessness, muscle tension, irritability and sleep disturbance may be present. It may seem that your anxiety appears without cause, but is triggered by some or other stimuli.

Therapy starts with helping you to decide what you need from the treatment. Generally treat will help you ascertain the trigger of the anxiety disorder. From Ascertaining the trigger the psychologist will then advise on a form of therapy. The most commonly used form of therapy is called Cognitive behavioral therapy.

The process of therapy is facilitated by guided discovery, whereby thinking is tested by what is termed ‘collaborative empiricism’. The truth is hereby investigated and derived at together through the therapist's facilitative questions. Therapy consists of various cognitive and behavioral interventions, and the encouragement of appropriate affect. The therapeutic relationship provides the medium through which change is brought about and is determined by the condition treated. It is always based on trust and compassion.

Couples Therapy

If you're part of a couple in distress, you may feel that there's no way out of your troubled relationship. Rest assured that cbt-therapist experts will gladly assist you and your partner. Our couple’s therapy changes the views of the relationship.

Each partner is given a chance to look at their relationship from the point of view of their partner. This allows them to have a broader understanding of the distress/conflict in the relationship. We also encourage our clients to express their emotions by promoting communication. Some of the tips we give our clients include, but not limited to:

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  • Catch your partner doing something right
  • Surprise your partner with thoughtfulness
  • When you know you have made a mistake, apologize

Feel free to give us a call or send us a message, our qualified and welcoming experts will gladly be of assistance.

How Mental disorders are diagnosed

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Diagnosing a mental disorder in involves numerous tests. The test amongst others include
the evaluation by a mental health professional or a doctor,  Questioning the patient about their medical history to deduce a trend in the family line , a physical exam and various other exams to ensure that the symptoms reflected in the patient are not caused by other illnesses.

Pschologists used a set of designed assessment tools to evaluate a patients mental state. The professional then bases the diagnoses on the reported stats and his or her observation of the patients attitude and behavior.

At Cbt Therapists we are staffed with, Pshychologist to assist you in diagnosing mental disorder in loved ones so that treatment is started early 

Group Psychotherapy

group psychotherapyConsulting with a group of strangers and sharing your story may seem a little intimidating. Surprisingly 80% of our clients are claim  our  group psychotherapy therapy can be relieving.

You often feel like you are the only one experiencing the problem  but  joining group psychotherapy sessions help you to understand that you are not alone and different people with different backgrounds will tend to give a different  and broader perspective to your situation.

Join the CBT group psychotherapy session for a peace of mind.

Borderline Personality Disorder Therapy Through CBT

Personality Disorder Therapist CbttherapistPersonality disorder are deep maladaptive pattern of behaviour of a specified kind, typically apparent by the time of adolescence, causing long term difficulties in personal relationships or in the functioning in society. Our Personality Disorder Therapist, Dr S peinaar, can help you.

We are all well aware that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a major health concern of the general public as psychotherapeutic trials have been (BPD) with significant improvement on measures of psychopathology.

32 patients who have shown suicide ideation or self inflicted injury behaviour received cognitive therapy sessions over a period of 1 year as described by Layden et al (1993). The results showed significant and clinically important decrease on the measures of suicide, ideation, hopelessness, depression, number of borderline symptoms and dysfunctional beliefs at termination and 18 month assessment interviews.

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