What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological intervention that has been proven to be helpful in improving wellbeing and mental health.  It involves collaboratively agreed steps to address simple to complicated day to day problem. CBT identifies the situations, thoughts, emotion which are not helpful; Cognitive behavioral therapy then uses a number of techniques to address them.

CBT Techniques

A few of the commonly used techniques are:

• Journaling and thought records
• Relaxation techniques including mindfulness
• Cognitive restructuring
• Behavioural activation

This mode of treatment has been very effective in addressing stress, anxiety and depression.  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help in the post COVID-19 to use a few of these techniques to help colleagues at your workplace not only to address stress but to improve the workplace environment and make it more positive.

To get more information on how to use CBT to improve the wellbeing of your workplace contact us at info@wellforwork.co.nz