Anyone know how to find a CBT therapist?

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My DR started me on ADs just over a week ago after months of resistance from me but as a 'bridge' to help me be able to sort myself out, he reckons that I need pyschotherapy for that and I agree as it worked well in my uni years, specifically CBT. Problem is that he can't get me in to the NHS system despite guidelines as the resource is scarce and I'm not a danger to anyone.

So my question to you, dear wise MNetters, is how do I go about getting a good CBT therapist off my own back and how horribly expensive are we talking? I'm in Hampshire, if that helps.

Thanks

I think you might be able to find out through BABCP - they run a kind of register - NB, anyone interested in CBT can join the organisation itself, but only people with the gold standard set of qualifications can formally register. Of course lots of good therapists using CBT approaches are possibly just as good.

It will be pretty expensive. Have you considered working through 'Mind Over Mood', a sound CBT based self-help manual? Also there are some useful internet sites, I'll see if I can remember the names. Psychotherapy is a different approach to CBT, btw, both useful, very different. Good luck with it all.

'Living Life to the full' is the website i was thinking of - Haven't used it myself but have heard it reccommended

that sounds like exactly the kind of advice I was after MM, thanks.

i was under the impression that cbt was a type of psychotherapy, basically i know from experience that counselling doesn't really cut it for me and i responded well to cbt as a more rigourous and pragmatic (and scientific!) way of learning ways to cope.

what kind of stuff is in mind over mood? i'm not sure exactly what i'm trying to fix, have depression / anxiety / trichotillomania all since childhood which was tough but not horrific and am basically endlessly self destructive and full of guilt and worry.

luckily (?) part of that makes me v driven and relatively successful at work (with a massively stressful job that I should be working on right now but am destructively avoiding...) so i can deal with a certain amount of expense - just have no idea what to expect.

CBT is about changing thought patterns. It does not deal with the pat but the now. Some pychopherapy goes over past which for some people is nnecessary but usually unhelpfull because openiong nold wounds hurts. Look at www.livinglifetothefull.com. its free its nhs and it has a forum. I am on there as MacBlackDog but have never posted.

I googled CBT and my county and got a website for a v v impressive looking CBT-only private practice. I phoned them up. They charge about £100 - £150 per session, which was double my imaginary budget. There were also some CBT ads under counselling in the yellow pages.

There are several useful-looking hits for CBT Hampshire (tip - not the ones that are motorcycle courses or computer based training).

Best wishes.

www.bacp.co.uk

you can find a therapist in your area and browse through them to see which ones offer cbt as well. Most therapists I know now also offer cbt as well as counselling/psychotherapy.

Good luck

And you should only pay £35-£50 for a therapist who also does cbt. All my therapist friends live in Hertfordshire and that is all they charge.

sorry, just looked at the thread again. I think mind over mood is exercises to help you understand where your thinking might be faulty e.g. start to notice depressed thinking/anxious thinking, understand why it is you have learnt to think that way, and try to learn some more helpful strategies. For instance if you always go into a new situation thinking 'I'm not going to cope, it's going to be a disaster', notice you are doing that, and think OK so what realistically could happen is 1. I might not cope, 2. I might cope and actually enjoy, then start to practice objectively gathering evidence of what happens e.g. did I not manage that situation BECAUSE I WAS PANICKING ABOUT IT, SO NEXT TIME WHAT WOULD HELP ME NOT PANIC, BECAUSE its the thinking that is making me not cope, not the situation. If your current perspective isn't helping, trying to adopt a new one. That may or may not be a good example, and i don't know the book well, but I do know CBT a bit.

To find an accredited CBT therapist go here
www.cbtregisteruk.com/Default.aspx

I would second the BACP website. CBT is a type of counselling/psychotherapy and all good therapists would be registered with either the BACP or UKCP.

I'm in Hampshire, around £40-£50 seems to be the going rate a session.

Sorry but the BACP website is not the first port of call for a CBT therapist, it is the one I posted that is BABCP. All good CBT therapists are in no way registered with BACP or UKCP. Some are registered with both. However there are a lot of counsellors who have maybe done a short CBT course but it is not their "default" position - OP knows that CBT works for her and that is what she wants and ending up with a humanistic/person centred/psychodynamic trained counsellor is not what she wants and is what she is likely to get with someone from BACP.

But she can look to see which accredited therapists use CBT and choose them.

Still better off with BABCP as first port of call for a fully trained CBT therapist rather than someone who has done a short course in CBT skills on top of a different type of training altogether.