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As we expand our service, we need you to do the job you were trained to do! The UK is currently in the eye of the storm of a mental health crisis.
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Lee Grant is the Founder & BABCP accredited CBT Therapist. With decades of CBT experience helping people with CBT for depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, work-life and many other mental health issues in London and nationwide.
Lee has written 22 posts
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Efficacy Holds Triumphant UK Team Event
Following the business update to the team, Lee Grant our Clinical Director introduced Professor Spada as guest speaker. The event provided the Efficacy network therapists with an engaging thought-provoking and habit-changing talk on Addiction to Technology (a threat to wellbeing).
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Corporate Wellbeing
Work related stress, depression and anxiety statistics in Great Britain, 2018
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has calculated depression or anxiety caused by work related stress has risen in Great Britain over the 2017 and 2018 period. An increase of 12% more employees suffered from work-related stress, depression or anxiety.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Christmas - CBT and Your Mental Health
While Christmas can affect anyone’s mental health, it certainly has the potential to exacerbate the symptoms of those with existing conditions. You could be a parent trying to manage expectations while also coping with limited finances; you might be someone who feels isolated at Christmas.
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
How can you deal with anxiety?
Avoidance and worrying about anxiety tend to make it worse, definitely worrying about being anxious is never helpful. There are simple things that can help. Find out what they are and how to get help.
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
Is anxiety dangerous?
When we are anxious our pulmonary, cardiac, endocrine, intestine, urinary, gastric, neurological systems are all activated, but is it dangerous? Find out here.
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
Do people faint with anxiety?
A fear of fainting is one of the main concerns in panic disorder. It can be a persistent and repetitive thought that is experienced. Find out here the relationship between fainting, anxiety and the anxiety disorders here.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
London CBT Therapists
All of our CBT therapists have been award with accreditation from the BABCP. As the largest and leading cognitive behavioural therapy service in London, we have the best CBT Therapists in London. We offer a rapid, discreet, affordable service which prioritises our clients and their needs.
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
What can anxiety do to your body?
Symptoms of anxiety in our body can be diverse. These are different from anxiety disorder to disorder, and person to person. Here we describe the Threat Response of anxiety, also known as autonomic symptoms of anxiety.
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
What are the main anxiety disorders?
The anxiety disorders are a cluster of problems, often related and overlapping, with defined diagnostic criteria. Anxiety is a natural emotion and high levels of anxiety does not mean it is an anxiety disorder. There are six anxiety disorders. In others disorders anxiety may be experienced.
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
What causes anxiety?
Anxiety is caused by biological factors, learning experiences and your triggers to anxiety - stress can play a part in developing anxiety. Often our anxieties are learnt in childhood but they can develop in adulthood. Noticing anxious thoughts just before feeling anxiety will identify the cause.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
GPs Recovery with CBT
GPs are unable to access confidential care locally. We have treated 405 GPs with mental health problems over the last year; with CBT 85% are making a full recovery. The GPs were all suffering from common mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression. Read more out the results here.
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IBS
James's Story of IBS Treatment with CBT
A client describes his CBT treatment of IBS with our CBT Therapist. IBS can be unforgiving, affecting 1 in 7. Six months after treatment James Morton explains how he got better with CBT. He describes how IBS impacted his life, what he did to overcome IBS and the changes CBT had on his move to London
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OCD
OCD Recovered with CBT
Lucy Wallis writes for the BBC about Catherine Benfield's journey out of OCD. She recovered with CBT, but also helped by creating Olive the personification of her OCD. In the CBT treatment of OCD we often encourage clients to externalise their OCD experience, for these very reasons...
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Anxiety Treatment with CBT
Guide to Manage Anxiety
In this guide, you'll find advice on how to manage your anxiety. You'll find relevant information about Anxiety and what you can do in this article. The advice can help you improve your life.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
How a CBT Therapist Uses Cost-benefit Analysis
When doing something new, CBT therapists reflect with clients on the pros & cons of our options, e.g. going to a first date, accepting a job offer, renting or buying, smoking, losing weight, asking for help, moving to London, finding a CBT therapist. Here we look at a process that helps.
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Depression
Depression: Seasonal Affective Disorder
Although September this year has provided a record-breaking heat wave, for some, autumn to winter depression is only around the corner. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a treatment for anxiety and depression in general, can help seasonal depression and may prevent it recurring in future years.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Unhappy Relationships Increase Suicidal Thoughts
Being in a relationship does not necessarily, in itself, protect people from having suicidal thoughts. This is the finding of a recent study into the correlation between relationship status and suicidal thoughts conducted by scientists from MedUni Vienna’s Institute of Social Medicine and the…
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PTSD
PTSD Treatment
We have expert CBT therapists that are effective in treating PTSD. CBT and EMDR are the treatment of choice for PTSD and complex PTSD. We have outstanding results for PTSD: measured on anxiety, depression, and Impact of Events Scale(r). You can benchmark our data across other CBT and EMDR services.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Miscarriage may trigger Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Women may be at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder following a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, suggests a new study. The team behind the research, from Imperial College London, say the findings suggest women should be routinely screened for the condition, and receive specific psychological…
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Chronic And Persistent Pain Main1
"Almost half the adult population is living with chronic pain," the Daily Mail reports. A major review suggests that around 28 million adults in the UK are affected by some type of chronic pain (pain that lasts for more than three months). However, behind the headlines, the findings need to be…
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Lee Grants Article on nail biting
Nail that habit! Desperate to stop chewing your fingernails? Then get your teeth into our 'how to quit' bite-sized guide • While a third of children and up to 45 per cent of teenagers are said to chew their fingers, astonishingly, five per cent of adults continue to do so
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