News
Join Us – be you on a better day, every day!
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.
Read MoreCognitive Behavioural Therapy Blog - Cognitive behavioural therapy
Corporate Wellbeing
Future-proof Employees Mental Wellbeing with the Covid-19 intervention training programme
Effectively supporting employees with the maintenance of their mental health also results in a higher retention rate, allowing them to work at their best. Poor mental health costs UK employers up to £64 billion a year.
Read More
News
Life after Lockdown: Future-proofing your Mental Health
While normal life still seems far away, we are getting closer to the other side of lockdown. This realisation is a relief for some, but a daunting thought for others as we prepare for life after lockdown and a new ‘normal’. According to a YouGov survey, just 9% of people want a total return to…
Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
4 Misconceptions about CBT therapy
CBT is the treatment choice for a range of mental health conditions, but there are some myths surrounding the therapy that we will debunk here.
Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Positive Impacts of Staying Home during the Coronavirus Lockdown
That’s the message spreading far and wide to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic, and that’s what we all should be doing. But staying home isn’t that easy for some people, so we want to share the positive impacts to help keep you going through this strange and uncertain time.
Read More
News
Financial Advice and COVID-19
As the ongoing spread of the coronavirus continues, the effect on the global economy is becoming more real to everyone.
Read More
News
How CBT Can Be Used to Treat Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are complex mental illnesses. They do not discriminate, and the notion that this is an illness reserved only for teenage girls who want to look like models is slowly changing.
Read More
Couples
Why sex is fundamental to a stronger bond with your partner
The absence of sex is not a trivial problem, and we should not underestimate just how important it is to a healthy, stable relationship.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
OCD
OCD Can Be Beaten If You Let Yourself Go
The hard part wasn’t telling people I had obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The hard part is dealing with it. Two years ago I wrote an article for a magazine about living with OCD and how my fear of the number three had started to take over my life. My friends all congratulated me, and my parents
Read More
Depression
10 Signs Of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
The prescribed treatment for depression under the NICE guidelines is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. If you are experiencing some symptoms related to this article you may be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder. Feel free to call us now on 0207 929 7911 for any depression enquiries.
Read More
Depression
Suicide: The Killer of Men
Suicide is currently the single biggest killer of men aged under 45 in the UK, and men are nearly four times more likely than women to take their own life. And members of the National Suicide Prevention Alliance – 70 organisations from the private, public and voluntary sectors – are calling upon men
Read More
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…
Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Why Can’t The NHS Treat Mental Health Effectively?
It’s been an interesting few years for mental health; once seen as an ambiguous and silent range of problems that were kept out of the public perception, it has recently found its voice and received an unprecedented amount of attention. Numerous articles are questioning the quality of treatment…
Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Teenage Anxiety Epidemic
More young women aged 16 to 24 than ever before are experiencing mental health problems according to a government study, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, published last week. ‘Young women have become a key high-risk group,’ it said. The survey followed another recent study that found more than a…
Read More
Depression
Middle Aged Men And Suicide
It has been a tragic few days for music fans. On Thursday, the lead singer of nu-metal band Linkin Park Chester Bennington was found dead at the age of 41 in his home in Los Angeles. Bennington died on the day that would have been his friend Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell’s 53rd birthday.
Read More
Anxiety Treatment with CBT
How Anxiety Became Society's Main Disorder
Last winter Sarah Fader, a 37-year-old social media consultant in the U.S who has generalised anxiety disorder, sent a text to a friend about an impending visit.
Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Multi-Channel Choice for Psychological Therapies
The General Practitioner Health Service (NHS GP Health) and Efficacy are delighted to launch their joint service for the new national England-wide NHS GPH . Efficacy and the NHS Practitioner Health Programme (NHS PHP) have worked together for 6 years in the Greater London area to treat NHS dentists,
Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
iCBT Proven to be Effective for Depression
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivered online is effective for treating depression in adults concludes a new meta-analysis presented at the Annual Meeting for the Psychiatric Association in the United States.
Read More