Men are disturbed not by events, but by the views which they take of them. Epictetus (2000 yrs ago)
Cognitive-behavioral and solution focused therapies can help you make fast, meaningful life changes. Most people begin feeling better in their very first session. These approaches are highly effective with relationship problems, depression, anger, stress and anxiety. They are choice techniques among counselors whose clients need rapid relief from their symptoms, and all Cheer Counselors are skilled in rapid recovery methods. The focus of these approaches is in managing your life here and now by replacing self-defeating thoughts with more life-enhancing alternatives. . It doesn’t really help you to spend hours and hours of therapy time discussing what happened when you were a child, if it doesn’t result in changes in your life today. The focus on what you are doing and thinking today, in this moment, is the only place and time that changes can actually occur.
Cognitive behavior therapy was developed in 1955 by Albert Ellis, Ph.D., and is widely recognized as one of the most effective forms of therapy in use today.