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Change how you think, how you feel and how you behave.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) can be used to treat a variety of problems, and is widely regarded as one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy. At The West Street Clinic, CBT is applied to two key areas:

Changing dietary behaviour

How we eat has a lot to do with how we feel and how we think. The dietary behaviour change (DBC) programme has been designed to achieve sustained weight loss by modifying the way clients eat and changing their relationship with food. The programme will work to:

• Utilise appropriate cognitive-behavioural tools to facilitate effective dietary behaviour change.
• Address psychological and physiological components that are contributing to disordered or erratic dietary behaviour.

Mental health care

Depression and anxiety are the most common psychological problems experienced, at times occurring in response to difficult life events, at other times emerging with no obvious cause. Many people will experience a period of depression and/or anxiety at some point in their life.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy is a highly successful treatment for anxiety (1) and depression (2). It has been found to be as effective as anti-depressant medication, with lower relapse rates post-treatment (3).

Sessions will help individuals to:

• Understand how their thoughts and behaviour contribute to how they are feeling, whilst providing practical support and tools to modify dysfunctional or inaccurate beliefs and thought processes.
• Change negative-thought patterns by challenging the validity of negative automatic thoughts.
• Raise self-esteem and self-confidence by building awareness of negative self-beliefs, and challenging beliefs that may be inaccurate or out-dated. 
• Find solutions to problems based on the CBT techniques learned in therapy.

Dr. Anna Collins is recognised by BUPA, AXA PPP, Aviva and PruHealth private healthcare insurance