Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Practical, structured therapy that helps you change unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns.
CBT is one of the most widely used and thoroughly researched forms of therapy in the world. It's practical, structured and focused on the present — helping you understand the connections between your thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and making specific, lasting changes to the patterns that are keeping you stuck.
If you're looking for CBT in Newcastle, Tynemouth, Jesmond or anywhere across the North East, our accredited CBT therapists offer both face-to-face and online sessions.
What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is based on a simple but powerful idea: the way we think about situations affects how we feel, and how we feel affects what we do. When we're struggling with anxiety, depression, OCD or other difficulties, we often fall into unhelpful thinking patterns — catastrophising, self-criticism, avoidance — that make things worse over time.
CBT helps you identify those patterns, examine them honestly, and develop more helpful ways of thinking and responding. It's not about positive thinking or pretending things are fine. It's about accurate, balanced thinking — and behavioural change that is tested in real life.
How is CBT different from other therapies?
CBT is more structured and goal-focused than many other forms of therapy. Sessions follow a clear agenda, progress is tracked, and there is usually work to do between sessions — exercises, experiments or observations that help you apply what you're learning in everyday life. This active, collaborative approach is one of the reasons CBT tends to produce results relatively quickly compared to longer-term therapies.
It's also one of the most evidence-based therapies available. CBT is recommended by NICE — the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence — as a first-line treatment for anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, phobias, eating disorders and more.
Who it helps
If you're looking for cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) in Newcastle or across the North East, this approach is well evidenced for:
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Depression
- ✓ OCD
- ✓ PTSD
- ✓ Phobias
- ✓ Panic attacks
- ✓ Sleep problems
What sessions look like
CBT sessions at Therapy North are collaborative and active. Each session typically begins by reviewing how things have been since you last met and any between-session work you've tried. From there, you and your therapist will work on a specific aspect of what you're dealing with — examining a thought pattern, testing a belief, or planning a behavioural experiment to try before the next session.
It's genuinely a two-way process. Your therapist brings the framework and the expertise; you bring knowledge of your own life and what matters to you. Together you build a shared understanding of what's maintaining the difficulty and a clear plan for addressing it.
Most people find CBT feels purposeful and motivating — there's a clear direction, and progress tends to be visible. By the end of a course of CBT you'll have a toolkit of skills you can continue to use independently long after therapy has ended.
Session length and course duration
Typically 50 minutes weekly, over 8–20 sessions for most concerns.
Cost
Please contact us for pricing
CBT in Newcastle, Tynemouth & the North East
We offer CBT at House Seven in Tynemouth and The Lamp House in Jesmond, Newcastle — as well as online for clients across the UK. Same-week appointments are often available. Use our Match Quiz to be paired with a CBT therapist in less than 30 seconds — confidential and no obligation.
What it helps