The Approach

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

CBT is the most thoroughly researched and validated psychotherapy for anxiety and depression. It works by helping you recognize and change the thoughts and behaviour patterns that maintain your difficulties.

Understand Your Patterns

Learn to identify the specific thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that are keeping you stuck. Awareness is the first step toward change.

Challenge Unhelpful Thinking

Examine the evidence for and against your automatic thoughts. Develop a more accurate, balanced perspective on difficult situations.

Build New Skills

Practice practical coping strategies between sessions. CBT is skills-based — you leave with tools that you can use for the rest of your life.

Collaborative and Goal-Oriented

Therapy is a partnership. Together we create a personalized treatment plan focused on your specific goals and what matters most to you.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

In addition to CBT, Dr. Trew uses ACT strategies in her approach — an evidence-based therapy that helps you learn to work with difficult thoughts and feelings differently so that you can pursue what matters and act in line with your values. ACT is a versatile approach that can help to address a range of problems, improve coping skills, and facilitate meaningful action in your life. It can be used on its own or combined with CBT as part of a flexible treatment plan.

To find out more about specific problems and how they can be treated using CBT, please see our resources page.

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