Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can help make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts – this helps things to feel more manageable. Your thinking is core to cbt techniques and learning ways to challenge and change your thoughts fundamental.

The thinking part of you (cognition), your behaviours, emotions and your physical responses are all connected – it starts with your thoughts. How you think about a problem will affect how you feel physically and emotionally and what you do. There are helpful and unhelpful ways of reacting to situations, depending on how you think about them.

CBT is a research based method which means there has been years of research suggesting it is an effective therapeutic intervention.