CBT: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps us understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours shape us, giving us tools to challenge unhelpful patterns and build healthier ones.
The Third Wave of CBT goes a step further.
It blends traditional CBT with mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based approaches, recognising that not every thought needs to be changed, some need to be noticed and accepted with compassion.
We are not our thoughts. Part of my integration therapy I use are third-wave CBT techniques.
What Third Wave CBT Offers:
• Greater self-awareness
• Improved emotional regulation through mindfulness
• A focus on values and purpose, not just symptom relief
• Skills to respond rather than react
• Tools for lasting psychological flexibility
• Psychoeducation
CBT techniques help people not just manage distress, but live with more awareness, balance, and purpose.