CBT help/resources

[Cherryblossom1985]

Hello everyone
I'm posting here as the MH boards are pretty quiet.

I'm taking prescribed medication for anxiety and asked my GP for CBT counselling.
The therapist I was given concentrated more on my family relationship issues, which although I found somewhat helpful, it was CBT counselling I wanted.

I've looked online for self help videos, but anything I found only catered for counsellors offering CBT.
Can any Mumsnetters recommend something on CBT they used and found helpful either online or suggest any reading material?
TIA

You don't mention what you want CBT for so these may not be helpful, sorry if that's the case.

Self help CBT for depression www.llttf.com .

The "overcoming" books are CBT based. Eg Overcoming Anxiety. There is one for various health conditions, physical as well as mental.

The Happiness Trap website and book.

Thank you @BlueSkyAndButterflies.
Without going into too much detail, I listed my thoughts of why I was depressed/anxious to my GP as:
The effect lockdown had on me.
My DH's worrying health issues related to long Covid.
Worrying about how lockdown had affected teenage DS's MH and his education.

I was hoping for help with changing my mindset from trying to turn a negative thought into a positive one.

CBT will help with negative thoughts patterns for sure. What it can't do is get rid of a "real" worry. I mean it's natural to be concerned about your DH health, for example, that isn't going to go away. But if you're catastrophising every little niggle to become "he's going to die" CBT can help change that. It's a set of skills that once you've learned them you can keep using them forever.

I can see why they focused more on the counselling side of things to start with. Lots of your concerns will have at least a strong element of reality in there. To try to "CBT away" reality would be gaslighting (emotional abuse). Maybe you weren't ready for CBT initially. Also if you had a fixed amount of sessions on the NHS with no flexibility in that, the therapist may have been conscious of not getting into things they'd then have to leave unfinished. But if you're having negative thoughts patterns you're right, CBT should help.

I don't know what your DH symptoms are of long covid but I've heard lots seems to be fatigue type symptoms similar to CFS/FMS, so the book Overcoming Chronic Fatigue by Trudie Chalder might help him if he's on board with making changes to his life to aid recovery.

Maybe your DS could sign up to the computer CBT too if you think it'd address his problems.

Your local library can be a good source of self help books. Maybe life coaching type things if you're feeling you've lost your way after lockdown. With everything that's happened in your life you've had a bit of a mental battering, maybe the main thing you need is time. That and a good even balance to your life so no one aspect takes over. The resources I mentioned can help with that. Too often we women prioritise others wants and needs and forget we're human too.