CBT
Medicolegal CBT, EMDR and Psychological Treatments Nationwide
Apex can provide CBT assessments and reports for legal and insurance purposes. Our highly trained and fully qualified therapists are able to carry out a thorough assessment and follow this up with an in depth CBT report. If you are in need of a CBT report or CBT therapy for insurance purposes or for a legal case, we are able to fully assess and treat a patient and provide an expert opinion on their psychological state as evidence from a CBT perspective.
All assessments held by CBT Therapy UK are provided by a qualified therapist and are run and supervised by an expert CBT team.
We can provide CBT reports for a wide range of purposes, including:
- Personal Injury claims
- Negligence claims
- Employment
- Family law cases
All reports are conducted independently and we work with integrity, compassion and discretion regardless of the specifics of each individual case.
Psychology reports
CBT therapy UK also provide a Psychology service which includes examination and compilation of Psychology reports for medico-legal purposes.
We can provide both CBT and Psychology reports for a range of cases, including:
- Personal Injury claims
- Negligence claims
- Employment
- Family law cases
We endeavour to provide referrers with the CBT or Psychology report within 24-48 hours.
At Apex, we can provide medico legal reports from our highly skilled professional team. Whether its due to a workplace negligence or car accident, our team format these complex issues, into a detailed and objective form.
We can provide psychological and psychiatric advice as a medical legal expert witness, on a scope of areas such as, clinical, counselling, educational, forensic, neuro and cognitive behaviour psychologists.
While medico legal reports are often required for court hearings, they might also be requested by schools or other institutions, or even for personal reasons.
Every member of our CBT team is professionally accredited by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP). Team members are selected on their track record, clinical experience and their CBT qualifications.
Private CBT Therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy that can help to improve your mental health. It aims to change negative thoughts and beliefs you may have that can affect how you feel and behave. You’ll learn skills in CBT that may help you for the rest of your life.
What does cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) involve?
CBT is based on the idea that your thoughts and feelings, your physical symptoms, and your actions and behaviour are all linked. It aims to stop the cycle of negative thoughts and behaviour. You’ll learn how to recognise negative patterns in how you think or behave and how to change them. This means you can cope with these situations better. CBT is a combination of:
- cognitive therapy, where you look at unhelpful or negative patterns of thinking
- behavioural therapy, which examines how you behave in response to those thoughts
There are different ways of having CBT. You can have sessions with a professional therapist on your own or in a group. This might be face-to-face or on a phone or video call. Or you can learn how to do CBT by yourself using self-help books or a computer programme (usually online). However, it’s usually most effective if you’re supported by a therapist.
What can cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) help with?
CBT has been recommended as an effective treatment for many mental health problems, including:
- anxiety and panic disorders
- depression
- obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- body dysmorphic disorder
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- bipolar affective disorder
- schizophrenia and psychosis
- eating disorders
You may also be offered it to help with:
- anger issues
- sleep problems
- sexual or relationship issues
- drug and alcohol addiction
CBT can also help you to cope better with certain physical problems that might have a psychological element. Examples include chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, irrita
Depending on what you’re having it for, you may have CBT on its own or alongside any medicines prescribed for you.
What happens in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)?
If you’re having CBT with a therapist, you’ll have an initial assessment on your first session. Your therapist will ask you a few questions about your background and the problems you’re currently dealing with. CBT focuses on problems that you’re dealing with right now, but you might look at how events from your past impact your thoughts and beliefs.
You’ll agree with your therapist what you want to focus on over your treatment course. In each session, you may discuss any new problems, review any ‘homework’ tasks you agreed to do and discuss new techniques to try. CBT works best if you work on things between your sessions as well as during them. This will allow you to practise the techniques you’ve discussed in the sessions. Your therapist won’t ask you to do anything you don’t feel comfortable with.
How long you’ll have CBT depends on why you’re having it, but it’s designed to be a short-term therapy. You’ll usually have between six and 20 weekly or fortnightly sessions, with each session lasting around an hour. Sometimes, you might start with six sessions and have a review to see how you’re getting on.
CBT is all about learning specific skills that you’ll be able to continue using throughout your life. You continue to practise what you’ve learnt once you finish the series of sessions. But if you start to have difficulties again, you can request more sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that EMDR therapy can show more effective results within a shorter period of time, than other more traditional forms of psychotherapy.
It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal, however EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. We provide these detailed protocols and procedures to help clients activate their natural healing processes.
An EMDR treatment session can last up to 90 minutes. Your therapist will move his or her fingers back and forth in front of your face and ask you to follow these hand motions with your eyes. At the same time, our EMDR therapist will have you recall a disturbing event. This will include the emotions and body sensations that go along with it.
Gradually, our therapist will guide you to shift your thoughts to more pleasant ones, alternating finger movements, such as hand or toe tapping or musical tones.
People who use the technique argue that EMDR can weaken the effect of negative emotions. Before and after each EMDR treatment, your therapist will ask you to rate your level of distress. The hope is that your disturbing memories will become less disabling.
Although most research into EMDR has examined its use in people with PTSD, EMDR is sometimes used experimentally to treat many other psychological problems. They include:
- Addictions
- Anxiety, such as discomfort with public speaking or dental procedures
- Eating disorders
- Panic attacks
EMDR therapy involves attention to three time periods: the past, present, and future. Focus is given to past disturbing memories and related events. Also, it is given to current situations that cause distress, and to developing the skills and attitudes needed for positive future actions. Our EMDR therapy sessions are addressed using an eight-phase treatment approach.