Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorder

An anxiety disorder is a category of mental disorder affecting general or specific areas in life.
Symptoms include worry, restlessness, muscle tension, irritability and sleep disturbance may be present. It may seem that your anxiety appears without cause, but is triggered by some or other stimuli.

Therapy starts with helping you to decide what you need from the treatment. Generally treat will help you ascertain the trigger of the anxiety disorder. From Ascertaining the trigger the psychologist will then advise on a form of therapy. The most commonly used form of therapy is called Cognitive behavioral therapy.

The process of therapy is facilitated by guided discovery, whereby thinking is tested by what is termed ‘collaborative empiricism’. The truth is hereby investigated and derived at together through the therapist's facilitative questions. Therapy consists of various cognitive and behavioral interventions, and the encouragement of appropriate affect. The therapeutic relationship provides the medium through which change is brought about and is determined by the condition treated. It is always based on trust and compassion.