Cognitive Behavioral Therapist Dublin

CBT for Anger Management For most people, chronic anger covers incredible pain. And while anger often feels like a relese at the moment, it inevitably makes the underlying pain worse. Anger is said to be the most talked about but the least studied emotion. Anger affects the vast majority of people at times. It is just one of a cocktail of normal emotions that we are wired up to experience. At best it can energise us and give a clear message that something is not right. This prompts us to communicate and /or problem solve; which can then give a sense of control or resolve. However, at worst it can be destructive and lead to an array of distressing consequences. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques offers the skills and techniques to understand and manage anger in a way that is both adaptive and helpful for you. CBT for social anxiety Someone who suffers from social anxiety, or has a social phobia, feels anxious when talking to other people or being observed by other people. They fear that they will do something embarrassing or humiliating, or that others are thinking badly of them or judging them. This fear of negative evaluation by others may reflect underlying beliefs about being less good than others, different or not quite up to scratch. SAD may give rise to extremely unpleasant (but physically harmless) reactions such as blushing, sweating and trembling). It also produces distressing self-consciouness. It's onset is usually in early adolesence, sometimes it can begin earlier. Without treatment is runs a chronic unremitting couse. CBT is the only evidence based treatment for SAD. CBT for anxiety Anxiety is a normal healthy response to stress, in the short term. It involves physical changes, changes to the way we think and feel changes in the way we behave we behave. These changes can actually help to improve our performance in stressful situations, such as interviews, exams etc. We think faster and we are more alert, but if there is too much anxiety it will impede performance. Put simply there is good anxiety and there is bad anxiety. Long-term or excessive stress causes long-term anxiety, which in turn causes unpleasant and unhelpful physical changes and changes in the way we think, feel and behave. These changes can be stressful themselves, causing a vicious cycle of stress and distress. What starts off as a normal response to stress can sometimes become a problem in itself. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy gives you the tools to understand and cope with anxiety and get on with your life without being impeded by anxiety. A panic attack has three important features: 1. It is accompanied by intense fear and anxiety 2. It usually comes on fairly suddenly 3. The most intense feelings last a relatively brief time (although it may seem like a very long time when you are in the middle of an attack, and it may leave you feeling uncomfortable for some time after the peak has passed). Panic is usually accompanied by a sense that something awful is about to happen. You may think that you will die, or go mad, lose control, or make a complete fool of yourself, or something else, there are many different fears. Panic often appears to come “out of the blue” the panic attack is completely unexpected and does not appear to be triggered by anything. Other times, people can recognise particular situations which are likely to trigger an attack. For more information visit: www.cbt.ie