In the last 20 years, CBT has become a leading approach in mental health treatment. Our skilled CBT therapists offer support for mental health challenges, behavior issues, and overwhelming thoughts and emotions in a safe and nurturing environment.
CBT is an effective type of short-term therapy, which entails using specific techniques to transform negative thoughts and behaviours. It is a very widely used technique and is often used by a wide range of mental health professionals and it has a growing evidence base that shows it can be very effective.
At the Sheffield Wellness Centre, we can help you understand the connections between your thoughts, behaviours, and emotions and how they can influence each other. This may enable you to comprehend how an issue developed over time and adopt coping strategies to deal with the problem in a more positive way.
Whether you’re seeking assistance with managing anxiety, challenging negative thought patterns, or developing coping strategies for every day life, our CBT therapists in Sheffield are committed to supporting you on your journey to wellness.
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Rooms were very good for therapy. Quiet, warm and comfortable with quality furnishings. Kept very clean and always plenty of clean glasses and fresh water available.
A wonderful calming place on Abbeydale road, with perfectly serene therapy rooms.
I've visited the Centre for a massage and I'm about to begin hiring the rooms myself as a practitioner. The rooms are really beautifully done out, with a lot of care and attention to detail. Richard has been very supportive and helpful in getting registered and started up.
I was embarrassed to open up about the extremity of my comfort eating but Richard made me feel comfortable about it. Even before the weight loss hypnotherapy sessions began he made a difference to my thinking by helping to change my perspective on the issue and see it as something I could get control of. 3 weeks and 3 sessions later and comfort eating has lost its grip on me, I'm making better and more conscious decisions about food and steadily losing weight. Thanks Richard.
i had 1-1 a reiki session with Nadine and it exceeded expectations. parking for the wellness centre on nearby streets was easy, it's easy to find and the therapy rooms are beautiful. i couldn't recommend it enough and will 100% be returning!
Well kept, warm and welcoming rooms. Hot and soft drinks available. It makes therapy sessions a little easier
I had a Reiki session with Nadine, it was so good and Nadine was excellent she took time to explain everything and made me feel comfortable. Good communication and really helpful. So happy with the session I booked straight in for my next.
Booked in for a regression hypnotherapy session with Helen and the experience was absolutely amazing, highly recommended . Helen was like a breath of fresh air , just what I needed, thanks
I've had two massages with Fi at the Wellness Centre 'so far' and both times I've come away feeling like a different person. Fi not only has magic healing hands that make you feel wonderful with every touch, but she treats you with such calm and gentle compassion that this is a really holistic therapeutic experience. Definitely recommend
Super lovely people and place! Lovely rooms, lovely vibe. Great place to have a massage and so well located. Lots of thought and care has gone into making this place as special as it is. Highly recommend. Had a hot stones massage with Fi today. I’ve been floating ever since. Highly recommend. Great way to treat to aching shoulders and neck. I feel renewed x
I had a pregnancy massage with Fi and it was amazing! the centre is a very relaxing place and she had it warm and comfortable for me. Despite her wearing PPE, the gloves didn't affect the feel of the massage and wearing masks made me feel safe. The actual massage was so relaxing and relieved any tension I felt as Fi had asked me where any tension was. I would highly recommend her to any pregnant ladies!
As a complete beginner and not being quite as agile as I'd like I was a bit nervous about attending a Yoga class but while I may be slightly biased given Elisha of Grow Yoga is my daughter I can honestly say I enjoyed every second of her class. She's a beautiful human with a passion and energy that radiates from her. She explains everything perfectly and encourages you to just go at your own pace and enjoy. On each occasion I've been I've left feeling like the world is a much brighter place with a calmness that is rare to feel in this very busy world. If you do have the chance to try one of her classes please take it, you'll fall in love with Grow Yoga
This is a wonderful oasis of calm and positivity tucked away inside a leafy courtyard on Abbeydale Road. The rooms are light, comfortable and tranquil. I always leave feeling brighter than I arrived.
A well laid out and welcoming place, conveniently located on a major route in to the city. Additionally, there is a small cafe for social meetups, before or after a session in the centre.
I have had the most wonderful hypnotherapy session with Fi from the Sheffield Wellness Centre. I knew from previous chats with her that she had the perfect voice and open demeanor for hypnotherapy, and I wasn't wrong. She immediately put me at ease and I was able to open up honestly with her. The session itself was lovely, I went quickly into a trance state and, although it's early days, feel very much that the session was beneficial: I already feel lighter and more in control of the anxiety and other problems I suffer with. The Sheffield Wellness Centre is also the perfect therapeutic space. The therapy rooms are lovely and perfectly suited to a range of therapies and the studio is bright and welcoming. I'm so excited to continue my therapy with Fi and am 100% sure this will give me so much benefit, I can't recommend her and the SWC enough.
This is an amazing space and i am very much looking forward to running regular yoga classes from here. It's a great location in Sheffield and as soon as i walked into the studio i knew i could work from here. Very clean and well maintained space and its obvious a lot of love and care has gone into setting it up.
Lovely venue, I had a Reiki session with Jess. It was my first session with her, she was very welcoming and explain the process in detail. The treatment was wonderful, I felt relax and a sense of joy during the session.I highly recommend Jess and the place to anyone that wants to try Reiki for the first time as she is a very gentle and calm person.
Lovely place! Coasy, beautiful, newly decorated rooms. Easily accesible from Sheffield city centra and Pick District. A lot of qualified therapists with experiences in various disciplines. Highly recommended!
I couldn't recommend Natalia enough! I have been treated by her and her essences for over a year now and we have gone through different levels of healing processes that I needed to go through. The powerful drops prepared for you at the end of the session gives you the extra help that you need to face your challenges... Thank you ever so much Nah! For the healing reiki sessions, the essences treatments and all the generosity and knowledge you bring and mix from your long time experience as a therapist; which makes your sessions unique and rich in love, faith and hope!!! �
I met with Richard today to view the treatments rooms and the studio. What a lovely, calming, welcoming and comfortable place, with a generous touch of character! Richard was incredibly helpful and welcoming. I left feeling very excited at the prospect of using the premises for my classes and client sessions.
Lovely peaceful premises, beautifully kept. Run by the most lovely, helpful and friendly people. A great place to come for any type of treatment or to hire the rooms. If only more places were run as well as this one! Fantastic!
Beautiful place. So many different things going on. Peaceful and excellent service.
What a wonderful space! We had a great time at baby yoga, Fi is wonderful. I will be back for more of the lovely things on offer!
I had a wonderful experience with Richard, He is very friendly, I found it really easy to talk to him. He has all the qualities of a Good Hypnotherapist. I would recommend all my friends to him. And trust me it was first time I met him and it was great.
An amazing place to give and receive treatments. Love the space and the people.
The Sheffield Wellness Centre is a place of calm tranquillity, perfect for giving and receiving treatments. Well done to Richard and Fi.
The Wellness Centre has a wonderful Yoga studio, one of the best intimate smaller yoga spaces I have ever used. Absolutey wonderful!
Pamper Party What a great idea! A bit of ‘me time’, in the most wonderfully relaxing surroundings. The Wellness Centre has such a relaxed, homely feel to it - much nicer than my actual home, as it is clean, tidy and welcoming! The atmosphere immediately put me at ease, I absolutely loved having time to chill out, chat and eat cake. Fi is the perfect hostess, making sure that we all had everything we needed, with her wonderful warm and caring manner. It was great to be able to choose what particular treatment or massage I wanted on the day. I surprised myself by trying something new and going for the hot stones massage, and I’m so glad I did. It was amazing, so deep and yet so gentle. It was really nice to experience my massage while listening to everyone else chatting happily, too. I completely recommend this if you are looking for the perfect excuse to have some guilt free time to yourself.
Lovely setting through a beautiful courtyard. Attended daisy birth classes with fi cannot recommend highly enough very informative/supportive/empowering/welcoming
I've been considering hypnotherapy for some time, but have always been slightly sceptical of the claims made about it's efficacy. I spoke to Richard Hennessy, based at the centre, and was so impressed by his knowledge and openness about the process. Combined with the clear information available via the website, I have found the trust I needed to move forward with this treatment.
A really great, welcoming place. Fiona and Richard were really helpful with initial enquiries and the whole experience was straight-forward and pleasant. An oasis of calm! Highly recommended.
We have CBT therapists ready to support you on your wellness journey. After selecting who you would like to work with, simply reach out using the contact form on their profile page, and they will get in touch to discuss your needs and how they can help you. How to book?
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If you know which CBT therapist you’d like to work with, get in touch with them using the form on their profile page to discuss the next steps.
Our team members each have a profile page so you can get to know them.
On each profile there is a contact form where you can send them a message.
If you need help choosing a therapy or therapist please get in touch.
CBT equips you with practical techniques to manage stress, anxiety, and other challenges effectively, empowering you to navigate life's ups and downs with resilience and confidence.
Through CBT, you'll gain insight into your thought patterns and behaviors, enabling you to challenge negative beliefs and adopt healthier perspectives, ultimately leading to improved self-awareness and personal growth.
CBT focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of your concerns, leading to sustainable changes in your thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses, providing long-term relief and well-being.
Negative thoughts, sensations, feelings, and actions often occur in a vicious cycle. For instance, you might criticise yourself a lot, avoid things you’re afraid of or need to do, or always focus on the negative part of a situation. If you constantly find yourself doing those things, your moods may worsen, and that can lead to symptoms of depression and anxiety.
CBT borrows from the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and the “chunking down” concept where you take one problem and divide it into small components. Then you can use the different tools and techniques to address each chunk.
Our Sheffield CBT therapists might help you face your fears by assisting you in gradually changing the way you think or help you realise whether your self-critical thoughts are exaggerated.
CBT therapy is structured in a way that the therapist would help you identify the different elements of the problem and examine what would best work for you. Typically, it involves:
The first session: This is an opportunity for the CBT therapist and the client to meet and have a detailed discussion of the past and present situations. You and your therapist might work through exercises to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and discuss what the CBT would focus on and the end goal of the process. Think of it as a kind of fact-finding mission for both of you to see what the scope of the project is.
The subsequent sessions: Generally, subsequent sessions may involve a catch-up on what has occurred since the last session to allow you and the therapist to be on the same page and maintain the flow from one session to another. You may collaboratively set topics for the session, assign new homework, and ask for feedback on how to improve the next session.
We’ve gathered our most frequently asked questions about cognitive behavioural therapy in Sheffield, putting them all in one place for your convenience.
CBT is usually done for a limited number of sessions, unlike therapies like counselling or psychotherapy which can often be more long term in nature.
On average, people having CBT will have around twelve sessions, usually one hour or so at a time. These sessions would usually be weekly. There is always the potential to extend the number of sessions if you and your therapist think that would be helpful.
Medical News Today offers more information about how CBT works.
Yes! There is a great deal of information showing that CBT is helpful for many psychological issues. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends CBT as an evidence-based treatment for psychological problems such as anxiety and depression. CBT can also help with other psychological issues, including panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorder, addictions, chronic pain, attention problems (such as ADHD), bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
What’s more, CBT has been found to be just as effective as medications, and sometimes it can even make you feel much better than if you were taking medication. That is because CBT gives you skills that you may use to manage future problems.
CBT is a set of tools that can be used by a wide range of health professionals. There are some people who purely train in CBT and offer only that therapy. There are other health professionals who offer CBT as a part of what they do but also offer other techniques or services. These include:
Most people who provide CBT therapy will have a post graduate diploma in CBT and the Sheffield Hallam University postgraduate diploma in CBT is actually one of the best in the country so as a result this part of South Yorkshire is a bit of a hotbed for great cognitive behavioural therapy specialists.
In the first session (or maybe the first few sessions) there would be a fairly detailed discussion of past and present situations where the problem state was experienced.
A plan would be made between client and therapist regarding what the therapy sessions will focus on and what the end goal is for the process.
Once you have had the first session (or two) looking at what it is that you want to change and what you want to achieve your CBT therapist will help you to begin to “chunk down” what was a big problem into its smaller parts and look at how they fit together. This can be done through a discussion but may also require you to keep a record of what you have thought or felt about the problem so it can be discussed at the next session.
By looking at this information together you can begin to assess the separate chunks of behaviour and really examine if they serve some kind of purpose to you now and in the future or if they are out-dated, unneeded and unnecessary. The things that are no longer needed could lead you to better alternative approaches which could dramatically change future situations.
The work to be done at home would be discussed at the end of each sessions so your would have a clear plan as to what is to be done and what the benefits of doing it could be.
You may be asked to keep a diary of specific thoughts or behaviours or what happens at certain times or places that were a challenge in the past.
You may be asked to write down features of what you would like the future you (who is feeling better) might be doing and how they would be living their life. By getting more familiar with your goal you could find it is more appealing to do the things that move you towards that goal.
Humans are creatures of habit and making changes can sometimes feel a little overwhelming. Having a therapist who is there to help, support and guide you could make that process of change a lot easier than it might otherwise have been. By practising the things you learn through cognitive behavioural therapy sessions you could find you develop tools that could help you for the rest of your life.
Sessions can be delivered in several ways. These include:
One on one: Just you and the CBT therapist. Your sessions may happen at a private clinic, at the doctor’s office, outside or even at your house. Different therapists work in different ways so check which are available.
Group sessions: Sometimes sessions may be done with a group of people who have all been experiencing the same issue. These sessions are often cheaper than one on one sessions but some people aren’t comfortable discussing personal issues in front of strangers.
Online: CBT is becoming more common as an online process and the benefit of this is that it can be done at your own pace, at a time that suits you.
Exposure therapy can be a part of CBT sessions but isn’t necessarily used as a part of everyone’s therapy. As a technique, exposure therapy is about facing fears and gradually becoming increasingly exposed to them.
The technique focuses on bringing in a small amount of the issue that has caused problems for you in the past. Just enough to provoke a physical reaction. Your therapist would then help you to be with that discomfort and to allow it to pass in safety. This process is repeated in the treatment session itself and as part of homework.
In time the majority of people find that after a small amount of practise that their anxiety or fear does not climb as high as it did when thinking about or experiencing the same thoughts. Many people find the anxiety also doesn’t last for as long as it did.
Once this has been worked through you then focus on an aspect of the problem that is more severe or provokes a stronger reaction and repeat the process to reduce and dampen the reaction.
There are a whole range of possible changes or benefits that you might experience as a result of CBT. Here are just some of those possibilities…
Everyone is an individual so there is no categorical answer to this question. Some people will see a CBT practitioner for 6 sessions because that is how many the NHS have allocated for that person. It is possible to see improvement within this time scale but some people may need more sessions than this. Each session usually lasts just under an hour. Sessions are usually held at weekly or fortnightly intervals.
Part of CBT is practise which is done in the time between face to face sessions. This homework may involve diary keeping or practising thought or breathing techniques.
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