Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Biofeedback
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based psychological therapy that helps you understand how your thoughts and feelings about yourself and the outside world affect your behavior. One of its main objectives is to enable you to detect your automatic thoughts and then alter patterns of thinking or behavior that fuel the difficulties you experience in the present moment so that you can change and improve the way you feel moving forward. Through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, we empower you to modify dysfunctional negative and abnormal mental beliefs and take control of your behavior patterns and help you live a happier and more fulfilling life.
With CBT, a trained therapist will meet with you once a week for an hour and first delve into your emotional problems. The therapist will then work with you to reverse your negative cognitive processes into positive ones by identifying how your thoughts are impacting you adversely and then presenting you with new attitudes at understanding your problems. Normally, immediately after your session, your therapist will also provide you with homework to work on in between sessions. After a few sessions, you will begin to have a new outlook on your life which will significantly improve your mental, emotional, and physical health. CBT typically takes anywhere from 15-30 sessions, depending on the nature of the problem.
CBT is both a stand-alone as well as an effective complement to other therapies such as psychopharmacology. CBT will specifically address and diminish your symptoms by helping you challenge your negative thoughts in order to replace them with positive ones.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy May Treat:
What is Biofeedback?
Biofeedback is a therapy that allows you to control and regulate your body’s physiological functions more effectively, thereby reducing excess nervous excitability in your body. Whether you want to take charge of your emotions, control pain signals in your body or as an athlete reach higher levels, taking charge of your physiology through biofeedback allows you to optimize your body’s nervous system and puts you fully in charge of your life.
During a session, our experts attach non-invasive electrical sensors to your skin (finger sensors could also be used) through which you receive instant feedback on your body’s functions. The feedback can be in the form of an image, a flash of light, as well as sounds that represent your physiological functions such as heart and breathing rate, skin temperature, and muscle activity. Under normal circumstances, these functions occur subconsciously.
When under stress or in pain, a component of your nervous system called the sympathetic nervous system is activated unconsciously. This leads to increases in your heart rate, tightening of your muscles, a rise in blood pressure, sweating, and rapid breathing. Biofeedback enables you to bring the activity of the sympathetic nervous system under conscious control and, as a result, take charge of your physiology.
We provide a 15 Minute Free Phone Consultation
BIOFEEDBACK May Treat:
When our genes interact with a negative physical source (poor nutrition, environmental toxins/radiation, dysfunctional family dynamics, etc.) as well as a negative emotional source (anxiety and stress, depression) a state of disease can follow.
Symptoms only occur when an overburdened mind/body system has reached its threshold of keeping this disease at bay. Often times conventional medicine or compartmentalized medicine (the skin rash is only seen as a rash rather than a systemic disease involving the bowels for example) aims to alleviate these symptoms through the use of medications.
When applying functional medicine, we first spend a significant amount of time with you creating a full picture of your current health status. Then, we formulate a comprehensive plan of action for your health. Whether you decide to take advantage of the guidance by our life coaches or go it alone, we will provide you with ample opportunities to discuss and finetune this plan as you go through with it.
We use advanced laboratory testing and assessments to find the source of the disease. Then, we take advantage of the latest advances in nutrition and detoxification programs, nutrigenomics, nutraceuticals and supplements, psychological therapies (such as mindfulness-based stress reduction), and psychophysiological therapies (such as neurofeedback) to guide you toward optimal health.
BENEFITS
What benefits do you get from doing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Elumind?
You address negative thoughts and feelings and prevent them from negatively affecting your life.You receive contemporary strategies and new positive thoughts that will significantly improve your life.You improve your mood, behaviour, and lifestyle through treatment strategies.You receive an alternative solution to medications in order to end your struggles with various mental health disorders.
B E N E F I T S
You reduce stress and anxiety by consciously decreasing unhelpful sympathetic activation
You reduce chronic pain and associated negative emotions
You magnify your body’s healing capacity through regulation of your breathing
You reduce overall inflammation in your body
You gain mastery of your body’s physiological functions
You regulate blood flow, heart rate and breathing in your body
You learn how to enhance your body’s musculoskeletal functions (especially if you are an athlete)
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