What to expect from your first CBT session
A practical guide to your first appointment — from what questions to expect to how to prepare.
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Articles & Insights
These articles offer practical CBT insights and tools you can use whether you are thinking about starting therapy or already working on your mental health. Written to be genuinely useful, not just reassuring.
Understanding health anxiety: When worry becomes overwhelming
Why our minds get stuck on physical symptoms and how CBT can help break the cycle.
Read more →Is perfectionism holding you back?
How to recognise when high standards tip into self-sabotage — and what to do about it.
Read more →How CBT actually works: A research-based explanation
The evidence behind cognitive behavioural therapy and why it's effective for anxiety and mood problems.
Read more →Low mood and the drift into doing less
Why low mood narrows what we do, and how CBT rebuilds momentum from the smallest possible starting point.
Read more →Burnout: when the system that used to work stops working
How burnout actually presents, why pushing through makes it worse, and what CBT does about it.
Read more →When sleep stops working: a CBT approach to insomnia
Why trying harder to sleep almost always backfires, and what CBT-I actually does about it.
Read more →Panic attacks: what is actually happening
Why panic feels life-threatening but isn't, and how CBT addresses the fear of fear that keeps the cycle going.
Read more →Living with overthinking
Why worry feels productive even when it isn't, and how CBT changes the relationship with the inside of your own head.
Read more →Intrusive thoughts: what OCD really looks like
Why everyone has intrusive thoughts, what tips them into OCD, and how ERP gradually breaks the cycle.
Read more →Performance anxiety and the avoidance paradox
Why pressure makes you put off preparing, and how CBT addresses the symptoms and the pattern underneath them.
Read more →Social anxiety: when other people start to feel like a threat
How self-focused attention and post-event analysis quietly maintain social anxiety, and what CBT does about it.
Read more →The harsh inner critic: working with chronic self-criticism
Why the inner voice that drives you also wears you down, and how CBT changes the relationship without lowering your standards.
Read more →Anger: when the response feels bigger than the situation
Why "letting it out" doesn't reliably help, what's usually underneath the anger, and what CBT actually does.
Read more →Specific phobias: why "just face the fear" usually fails
Why pushing through a phobia tends to backfire, and how graded exposure does the same job differently.
Read more →Adjustment: when life changes faster than you can settle around it
What adjustment difficulty actually is, and how CBT helps you find ground after a major change.
Read more →Is it time for therapy?
A practical, honest guide to deciding whether what you are dealing with is the kind of thing therapy can help.
Read more →Online CBT vs in-person
What the research actually says, and the practical considerations when you are deciding.
Read more →Anxiety in high-functioning adults
Why high-functioning anxiety is invisible from outside, and what CBT does about the version that meets every deadline and quietly wears you down.
Read more →When worry shows up in your body
Why anxiety often presents physically before it becomes mental, and what CBT does about somatic symptoms.
Read more →Procrastination: when avoiding the task is the task
Why procrastination is rarely laziness, and how CBT addresses the patterns underneath.
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