Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Our CBT service offers short-term therapy for mild to moderate mental health issues. CBT focuses on your thinking (cognitions), your actions, your ways of dealing and coping with life situations and how they impact on your overall mood.

CBT recognises and explores how life experiences, including childhood, have shaped us but focuses on the here and how and ways to move forward.

CBT is a self-help therapy guided by a therapist, which means people are often able to maintain their improvement after therapy has finished.

CHANGES have two qualified CBT therapists and one clinical associate of applied psychology. In addition we also have a trained volunteer CBT therapist.

The service has close working links with the local NHS Psychology Service.

What you can gain from CBT:-

• Learn skills and techniques to manage your anxiety and/or low mood.
• Recognise unhelpful thinking and learn alternative ways of thinking.
• Recognise unhelpful behaviours/activities and include more helpful behaviours into your daily routine.
• Learn ways to solve problems on your own.
• Learn ways of becoming more assertive/self-confident.

If you would like to find out about CHANGES Cognitive Behavioural Therapy service please Contact Us

CHANGES Community Health Project

108 Market Street, Musselburgh
EH21 6QA   Tel 0131 653 3977  Fax 0131 665 3878
email address: info@changeschp.org.uk