Cognitive behavioral therapy is a common form of talk therapy, which unlike some other therapies, it is a short-term treatment, taking anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to see results. CBT focuses on providing you with tools to solve your current problems, and to do that it uses various techniques.
#1 Journaling
Journaling your moods and thoughts helps you to understand your thought pattern and emotional tendencies.
#2 Exposure therapy
Exposure therapy slowly expose you to the things that provoke fear or anxiety, while providing guidance on how to cope with.
#3 Progressive muscle relaxation
This technique teaches you to relax a group of body muscles at a time, and eventually makes you relax your whole body.
#4 Behavioral experiments
Before a task that normally makes you anxious, you’ll be asked to predict what will happen. Later, you’ll talk about whether the prediction came true.
#5 Successive approximation
This involves taking tasks that seem overwhelming and breaking them into smaller, more achievable steps.
