SFB COUNSELLING / PSYCHOTHERAPY IN BARNSLEY, SOUTH YORKSHIRE:
Solution Focused Brief Therapy is a short, brief form of psychotherapy / counselling
, which offers a realistic set of interventions derived from work done in America in the last 20 years.  Adults were seeking speedy relief from challenges within their own relationships and their chidren and larger families.  These problems often concerned barriers coasued by poor communication, negative anger, low motivation, and many other personal and relationship challenges within parents and families.  Many families had situations and backgrounds relating to poverty, poor educaton, poor parenting, unemployment, addictions, depression, discrimination, etc.  This type of counselling therapy emerged as a positive reaction to clients only motivated or able to attend for 2 to 4 sessions, due to their often chaotic or pressurised lifestyles.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) psychotherapy / counselling concentrates on the assumption that somewhere in the past the client may have managed better or behaved better or felt better.  There is total emphasis on moving forward without any effort to look back, to analyse or to reflect to much.  The client is asked a Miracle Question: 'If you woke up tomorrow and one or more miracle had occured in the night, how would you feel, what would have changed?'  The client is asked that if 10 made them feel like a miracle had happened and if 0 meant that they felt life was not worth living, what number do they feel now today right now?' 

The clent is then asked the Exception Question: 'What times in the past did you feel or cope better and why do you think that was?'  Using the knowledge and ability from handling the problem better or from abilities handling similar problems, the client can be supported, empowered and motivated to move forward.  One step at a time the client learns and gains confidence in using improved or new coping tools to solve problems and overcome conflicts.  All age groups are welcome, including children and adolescents.  This type of counselling / psychotherapy is very empowering, motivating and forward thinking.        

CBT COUNSELLING / PSYCHOTHERAPY IN BARNSLEY, SOUTH YORKSHIRE:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy / counselling, which offers a unique category of psychological interventions derived from cognitive and behavioural psychological models.  It is a relatively short term, focused psychotherapy for a wide range of psychological issues.  The focus of CBT is on what you are thinking (cognitions), how you are behaving and feeling, and what symptoms you are experiencing. The Counsellor / Psychotherapist is a catalyst, helping you to find new solutions to old problems, within each dynamic and motivational counselling session.  CBT is an evidence-based therapy, that is, it has a proven track record based on a large body of research.  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) empowers you to use powerful, practical tools, to identify and reflect the negative ways, you presently think, feel and behave.  With step-by-step practical support, you are assisted to develop realisitc and effective coping strategies, to move forward with success.  These positive coping tools within each counselling session, empower you to gain new, positive, ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.  All age groups are welcome, including children and adolescents.

CBT counselling  / psychotherapy can help with many issues including the following:
• Depression
• Anxiety (including social anxiety)
• Panic attacks
• Low self-esteem
• Low confidence
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Travel anxiety and accident trauma
• Childhood abuse (sexual, physical or emotional)
• Phobias
• Fears e.g. public speaking

The first session of CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) is an assessment and will give some indication of the number of sessions required.  All age groups are welcome, including children and adolescents.  This form of counselling / psychotherapy is very action-orientated and includes practical homework to empower quicker and more effective positive changes.  The NHS clinical guidance body (NICE) clearly endorses CBT Counselling / Psychotherapy, for depression, anxiety, OCD and other challenges.