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What is the most effective therapy for your mental health?

When family members or individuals realise that they need to see a professional therapist. One of the commonest questions is what therapy and which actually works. What is the best one?

This is a fair question, especially for people who have never had a one-to-one therapy session or even for families trying to find information on how to support a family member they care about.

The same as diets. There’s no one single therapy that works for everybody. Each person is unique, and different approaches are designed for different types of mental health struggles and difficulties, personalities and everyday life situations.

One of the most established and evidence-based approaches is CBT, also known as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It’s based on a simple idea that thoughts, feelings and behaviour are all connected. And when a person is stuck in unhelpful, struggling conflicted thinking patterns, it can affect how they feel emotionally and how they act in everyday life.

CBT management

CBT is effective because it helps people identify painful patterns and gradually change them. For example, someone who is constantly thinking I’m not good enough may start avoiding situations, circumstances and people, which then reinforces low mood or anxiety and self-esteem. CBT works particularly well by breaking this cycle and replacing it with a more balanced way of thinking and leading to healthier behaviour patterns.

CBT focuses mainly on present difficulties rather than long term historical analysis and it’s commonly used for anxiety, depression, panic disorders, phobias and stress related or trauma conditions such as PTSD.

Anxiety

If you’re experiencing anxiety, anxiousness and panic in social scenarios then CBT might be the right route for you. Other therapies are also effective such as psychodynamic therapy which focuses more on subconscious patterns within the subconscious mind and past experiences which influence and affect your present state of mind now.

Humanistic therapy focuses on your self-awareness, emotional expression and your personal growth. Whereas trauma focused therapies such as EMDR are used for more specific trauma related conditions such as serious PTSD, and people who relive horrific events that have occurred in their life.

Effectiveness depends on the person. Some individuals respond really quick to structured approaches like CBT and others need more analysis and exploratory relational therapy styles. A good caring therapist will suggest the right approach or adjust their approach based on what the client needs, rather than rigidly sticking to one method. And this is where an eclectic therapist might be helpful.

Families in conflict

Also, families in conflict needing assistance might want to look at family therapy from a family therapist who offers counselling specifically targeting the family dynamic – conflict resolution.

A trained professional therapist will carry out an initial first consultation assessment and guide you through the right direction of treatment.

For some people, therapy can be short term and very life changing because for the first time in their life they’ve met someone who they can open up to and sometimes anonymously. A skilled therapist can provide sharp, accurate feedback, providing a new way of looking at the situation, the circumstances or the world.

In a nutshell, if you have extreme psychological and emotional difficulties related to trauma, attack, assault, abuse, or accidents then EMDR and a PTSD type therapist may be more suitable and if you are suffering anxiety, worry you can’t sleep, eating disorders, then a CBT therapist or related might be more appropriate.

If you’re looking to get to the bottom of deep psychological problems which you’ve had most of your life, then subconscious or unconscious working therapists might be more suitable such as Psychoanalytical therapy Jungian therapy.

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