Private CBT Therapist based in Cheshire
Take the first step towards a calmer, more balanced life—imagine yourself free from anxiety and thriving with the support of expert CBT therapy. Serving the whole of the UK as well as locally in Cheshire.
CBT Therapy for Busy Professionals - face to face or online therapy sessions available
I’m Hannah Paskin, and I’m one of Cheshire’s top-rated therapists on Google. I offer private CBT therapy in Middlewich, as well as offering CBT therapy online.
Over the last 5 years, I have worked with hundreds of busy professions to successfully help them overcome their anxiety using CBT therapy.
I often hear the same story – “I’m struggling to cope”, “I’m exhausted”, “I can’t stop overthinking”, “I’m not enjoying life”.
Private CBT therapy can really help with exactly these issues.
Why Choose CBT Therapy?
One of the real beauties of CBT Therapy is that it is packed full of logic, of theories that are simple and make sense, of explanations that we can get – it’s why I love it so much. Naturally, I’m a logical thinker and problem solver, and my clients often describe themselves as being similar.
But when anxiety, Stress or Depression get in the way, it can feel impossible to access that part of ourselves. Working with a CBT Therapist will help you to tap into that logical side again, to help you feel more like the real you, rather than the anxious, stressed or depressed you.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is actually a collection of lots of different tools and techniques, which means that you CBT Therapy can be personalised to you, your difficulties, and your goals to make sure you get what you need.
Why Pay for Private CBT Therapy?
Most clients I work with would be described as High Functioning – still going through the motions of life, just not with any joy. They typically wouldn’t be able to access one-to-one Therapy under the NHS. But that doesn’t mean that CBT Therapy wouldn’t have a huge benefit for them. Whether it’s help with worry or overthinking, with perfectionism or imposter syndrome, with being a workaholic or with unhelpful relationship patterns, seeing a Private CBT Therapist could make a significant difference to their enjoyment of life.
Each Private Therapist will have different special interests and special skills. I’m known as ‘The Straight-Talking Therapist’ as that’s one of my special skills, and it helps me get to the root of the problem with my clients faster. I am a born empath, so also offer a lot of emotional support. Clients come to me because they want answers, they want to make changes, but they currently feel stuck. CBT Therapy is a really good fit alongside my straight-talking approach, as it’s a very proactive type of therapy.
Paying for your own therapy isn’t cheap, but what it does allow you to do is choose the person you connect to and who is an expert in your exact problem. When you get that match right, it just clicks, and it can really help to make the therapy journey enjoyable.
What does Private CBT Therapy involve?
Your Therapy experience will usually start with an Assessment, an opportunity for your Private Therapist to get an understanding of what difficulties you are experiencing, how they are impacting you, and what you’re wanting to achieve from your CBT Therapy.
Once you get started with your CBT Therapy Online or in Person, treatment sessions will focus on introducing well-recognised theories to explain what’s going on for you and why. You can expect to be encouraged to complete tasks between sessions to enhance learning, and to experiment with new ways of thinking and acting. Your Private CBT Therapist will be led by the goals that you set for therapy throughout.
There’s a false myth about CBT that it doesn’t address the past and doesn’t explore the underlying cause of the current problem. This isn’t true at all. Sometimes it’s appropriate for therapy to focus solely on the here and now, and so that’s what your Private CBT Therapist will do. But there are plenty of times that Private CBT Therapy will explore your upbringing, your early experiences, traumatic events, and help you to understand how this all links with your current thinking patterns or unhelpful behaviours. CBT has the flexibility to explore the past, as well as focus on the present, we are led by a client’s goals and symptoms for what makes sense.
What can CBT Therapy help?
CBT Therapy can be used for a wide range of emotional problems such as Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Low Self-Confidence, Anger and Trauma experiences. It can also be used to help with Relationship Problems, Pain Management and much more.
If the problem you experience includes going down a rabbit hole with your unhelpful thoughts, or getting trapped in doing things that you know don’t make logical sense, the likelihood is that seeing a CBT Therapist could help.
CBT Therapy focuses on these 2 areas – our thoughts, and our actions, and how these 2 elements feed a vicious cycle that gradually worsens over time.
Does Online CBT work?
I’ve been running my own business for over 8 years now. When I first started, most of my clients would see me in person. However, the increased use of video for communication in recent years has really shifted this balance, I now have over 50% of my clients accessing Private CBT Online.
Whether sessions are in person or virtually, you are still receiving face-to-face Therapy. Online CBT has the benefit of being able to choose a Private Therapist that’s the right fit for you without the barrier of geography, as well as it being easier to make time for without needing to add in travel time.
Find a Private CBT Therapist
If you’re looking for CBT Therapy, I’d recommend finding a Private CBT Therapist who is Accredited. You can check if a Therapist is Accredited by searching with their surname here: CBT Search Results (babcp.com). I have been Accredited since 2015.
This helps to ensure that your Private CBT Therapist has trained at a high level, and is part of a professional body, and ensures you keep away from those who might only have completed an online CBT course lasting a couple of days.
Frequently Asked Questions – FAQS
How does CBT therapy actually work?
At is core, CBT Therapy is about providing a better understand of what’s going on, connecting the past together with the present, and then identifying and targeting ways of thinking and acting that no longer work for you. CBT Therapy is about empowering you with the knowledge and skills to be able to positively change how you feel. It is a proactive and change based approach to therapy, focused on the reduction of unwanted symptoms.
What are the benefits of CBT therapy?
Clients will often come to therapy to help overcome problem emotions, to help put a stop to physical symptoms, or to change the path of problem consequences they are experiencing. All these things are covered in therapy. But there’s often lots of extra benefits to CBT Therapy apart from the overcoming the main problem. Many clients will report improved work, improved relationships, improved life balance, improved connections with friendships, renewed sense of direction in life and more. There’s a huge ripple effect of therapy.
Is CBT therapy the same with all therapists?
There will be similarities in the fact that at it’s core CBT Therapy is about changing the way we think and behave. However Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is effectively a collection of lots of different theories, lots of different strategies, and therefore different therapists will pull from different parts of this. We also will have differing personalities and may bring aspects of this into our work. For example I use lots of analogies, and visual explanations as I’m a creative thinker. I also value common sense and am a natural problem solver, so I have a more straight-talking approach to therapy than others may have.
Does CBT therapy look at my past?
This will depend on what you’re coming to CBT therapy for, however for the majority of people yes. But we don’t spend lots of time talking about the past, instead we focus on helping to connect the past with the present, to make sense of why we have the difficulties that we do. It’s to give context, to help us be more compassionate and understanding of ourselves. A lot of clients want to know why, and want to know what’s at the root of their challenges, but it’s okay if you want to keep your therapy focused on the present instead.
What can I expect during my first session?
The first CBT therapy appointment is an assessment appointment. The aim is to get background information from you, to identify problem areas, to recognise repeated patterns or tendencies, and to formulate a plan for treatment. You can look at some of my Case Studies as an example of the sort of things that are typically identified in this first session.
