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How online CBT works
CBT is a practical talking therapy. It helps you see the patterns keeping you stuck and gives you tools to change them.
What is CBT?
CBT is a talking therapy that helps you understand how your thoughts, feelings and behaviour work together. They shape the world you live in, and they can lock into cycles that keep difficulties going.
We begin by exploring your story and the main difficulties you’re facing, and by understanding what keeps you in the current cycle. Then we work on breaking that cycle. We gently question unhelpful thinking and introduce more helpful ways of thinking and acting.
CBT is goal-focused. We explore new coping skills together in session and you practise them through tasks between sessions. The aim is lasting change and the confidence to become your own therapist.
What sessions look like
- Online, on a secure video platformJoin from your own space. No travel and no waiting room.
- One hour, usually weeklyI’m flexible if you need sessions more or less often. You can choose short-term or longer-term work.
- Tasks between sessionsSmall, practical experiments that help you try new ways of responding in real life.
- Regular reviewsWe check progress together so therapy keeps fitting your goals. Some past clients return for ad-hoc sessions.
CBT with ACT
I draw on aspects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) alongside CBT. ACT adds skills for noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without being run by them, and for acting on what matters to you.
You don’t need a diagnosis to start. You can begin with what you’re experiencing and we make sense of it together.
Difficulties I work with
Each page explains what the difficulty can look like and how CBT approaches it.
OCD
Intrusive thoughts, urges and rituals that take up your day.
Read more →Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
Preoccupation with a perceived flaw in your appearance, and the checking or hiding that goes with it.
Read more →Anxiety, panic and phobias
Worry that won’t switch off, panic attacks, social anxiety and specific fears.
Read more →Trauma and PTSD
Feeling on edge, avoiding reminders or reliving what happened.
Read more →Low self-confidence
Harsh self-criticism, comparison and holding yourself back.
Read more →Take the first step with a free 20-minute call
Tell me what is going on, ask your questions and see whether we would work well together. There is no pressure to go ahead afterwards.