Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is a structured time-limited therapy that traditionally lasts over 16 or 24 weekly sessions. The focus of this therapy is to find out about problems that are repetitive and self limiting ways of thinking and living. The aim is to help you find better and more rewarding ways of managing difficult thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
CAT emphasises collaboration between client and therapist, so therapy is very much a joint exploration of the difficulties that you want help with and includes thinking together about changing things for the better . CAT’s cognitive aspect pays attention to the way we think and how we make sense of the world and its analytic aspect takes into account possible unacknowledged and unconscious factors.
As CAT is a focused and intensive therapy, the end date of the contract is discussed at the beginning of the work.There is more information about CAT at: http://www.acat.me.uk/
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