Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the interactions between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and how these can lead to feeling stressed, anxious or down. Sometimes your thoughts may not reflect the evidence in your life – CBT can help identify and change your patterns of thinking and the meanings you give to situations so that you gain perspective and feel less distressed. CBT also looks at changing behaviours that may have once worked well for you but may now lead to difficulties or cycles that maintain your concerns. In CBT I can help you learn and use both cognitive and behavioural tools and strategies to help you gain perspective and feel better. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy is collaborative, goal-oriented and may be shorter-term in nature, and is well supported by research as being at least as effective as medication, and as a way to reduce your vulnerability to distress in the future. My goal in CBT is to help you learn to be your own therapist!