Cognitive behavioural therapy in Gaziantep

What is cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps you notice how the meanings you give to events and your automatic thoughts shape your feelings and actions, and how to change unhelpful patterns. Sessions are structured and practical, using tools such as thought records, homework tasks and gradual exposure to feared situations. Research supports its effectiveness for depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic insomnia, among other problems.

How is cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) done?

1. Assessment and a shared understanding (formulation) of the problem
2. Setting goals together
3. Learning to recognise automatic thoughts and underlying beliefs
4. Behavioural experiments, exposure and skills practice
5. Relapse prevention and ending therapy

Who is cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) suitable for?

• Depression
• Panic disorder and generalised anxiety
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Social anxiety and specific phobias
• Chronic insomnia (CBT-I)

Aftercare: what to watch out for

• Completing the tasks set between sessions makes a clear difference to results.
• Keep using the skills you learned after therapy has ended.
• If symptoms return, ask about booster sessions.

Possible side effects and risks

• A temporary rise in anxiety during exposure work
• Feeling tired or low while working through difficult topics

Are there alternatives?

Acceptance and commitment therapy, schema therapy, psychodynamic therapy and, where appropriate, medicine recommended by a psychiatrist are alternatives.

What affects the cost of cognitive behavioural therapy in Gaziantep?

The cost of cognitive behavioural therapy depends on factors such as number of sessions; the therapist’s CBT training; face-to-face or online sessions, and is set by the doctor after an examination. Under Turkish rules on the advertising of health services, prices are not published on our site; you can ask the doctor directly when you request an appointment.

• Number of sessions
• The therapist’s CBT training
• Face-to-face or online sessions

Getting treatment in Turkey as a visitor

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