Changing your automatic thoughts and assumptions
In cognitive behavioural psychotherapy your therapist can help you learn to recognise the thinking that is helping to maintain the distress in your relationship and then coach you in strategies for changing the most unhelpful aspects. You will also learn how to act differently in your relationship so that both of you can experience greater rewards and importantly be able to accept and recognise the rewards without discounting them. Wide ranges of techniques are used with cognitive behavioural psychotherapy. Some of the techniques that you may learn about are:
