What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CBT is based on the premises that the way you think and your appraisal of a situation, affects the way you feel and behave. The main purpose of CBT is to help you identify and change those key thinking patterns and key responses which contribute to the development of the maintenance of the troublesome emotions, such as low mood or anxiety.

What are Dialectical Behavioural Skills

Dialectical means trying to understand how two things that seem opposite can both be true. For example, accepting yourself and changing your behaviour might feel contradictory. But DBT Skills teaches that it is possible for you to achieve both goals.

DBT skills incorporates CBT Skills and is specially adapted for those who feel emotions very intensely. This can help to build a better relationship with self and others.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Enhanced for Eating Disorders

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Enhanced (CBT-E) is a treatment based on research evidence that helps a person with an eating disorder to re-establish regular healthy eating, restore their weight (if underweight), and address any emotions and behaviours that are keeping the eating disorder stuck. It is a collaborative form of treatment where the client and their therapist work out together what is keeping the eating disorder going, what you can do to take control of your eating disorder and how to enlist the help of others, such as parents, to get things back on track. 

CBT-E has a good evidence base as a treatment for people with eating disorders and is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). 

It has been shown to promote weight restoration to a healthy weight, decrease eating disorder symptoms, reduce or stop binge eating and purging behaviours and maintain a healthy weight