Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - A Combination Of Two Styles
To put it simply , Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT is a combination of both types of therapies and is one that is favored by a lot of psychotherapists in treating anxiety disorders. So what can you expect from CBT? Does it treat your physical responses or your emotional responses?
It does both really. It taps into the grey areas that neither of the other two therapies can do alone. It conditions your response to panic and anxiety, to change your physical behavior and it also taps into your emotional reserves to help you change your automatic emotional responses.
That's why CBT is such a popular therapy - it covers all the bases, not just one. Also when compared to the other different types of psychotherapy CBT has one of the fastest patient turnarounds with an average number of sessions only lasting perhaps as long as 16 sessions in total. (This is the average figure regardless of what problem you're suffering from, not just anxiety disorders.)
Not only are you not kept in sessions for a long period of time, but it also frees you up from a prolonged attachment with your therapist. Don't get me wrong this connection with your therapist is a good thing to have, but some people are prone to become too emotionally dependent upon their therapists to give them all the answers.
What CBT will do for you without a doubt however, is make you see the world around you for what it is. It'll also bring you to a point where you can take your fears out of that dusty cupboard in your mind where you stuffed them into and give it a good shake up. These techniques have been proven time and time again to work, and there are plenty of people who are successful cases that prove CBT does work.
