Cognitive Behavioural Therapy on the Rise at Harley Therapy, London
Friday, March 26th, 2010
PressRelease: London, 24 March 2010. Enquiries have continued to grow for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) since Harley Therapy, a therapy service in Central London, first observed a growing trend in 2006. More established talking therapies, such as psychodynamic, gestalt, existential, person-centred or psychoanalytic therapy now appear to have been overtaken by CBT.
45% of enquiries for adult individual therapy (not including couples therapy, or child & adolescent counselling)) over the past 3 months have been for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy rather than any other therapeutic approaches on offer.
Clinical Director, Dr Sheri Jacobson believes that the popularity of CBT stems partly from the government’s roll out of CBT programs incorporated in the IAPT initiative (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). (more…)