Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy that helps you to understand how your thoughts, images, and beliefs relate to how you behave. It can be helpful for a range of problems, such as managing stress, anxiety, depression, paranoia and post-traumatic stress disorder.

CBT tends to be a short-term therapy, taking three to six months, but can be extended according to your individual needs. At Blue Sky we work together to help you understand what the problems are and develop strategies to tackle them. CBT focuses on what is going on in the here and now rather than the past, but it will also explore how thinking patterns may have begun when you were younger, and how events in your past have shaped the way that you currently think, feel and behave. With CBT you will gain skills to apply to other areas in your life, which will help you to cope with future difficulties.