https://cbtpoland.com/en/ Recent content on CBT Poland Center Hugo en-GB https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/cbt-plus/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/cbt-plus/ <h2 id="what-this-programme-is-about">What this programme is about</h2> <p>CBT+ is the first level of training in cognitive behavioural therapy. Over 13 months you travel from the question &ldquo;how is CBT actually put together&rdquo; to independent case work, which you then review with the teacher and the group.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/anxiety/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/anxiety/ <h2 id="what-happens-in-anxiety">What happens in anxiety</h2> <p>Anxiety is useful in itself: it mobilises the body ahead of a real threat. It becomes a problem when it switches on without a threat, does not switch off in time, or is triggered by your own thoughts.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/cbt/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/cbt/ <h2 id="the-core-idea">The core idea</h2> <p>What affects us is not so much what happens as how we interpret it. The same event — an unanswered message, criticism at work, a quickened heartbeat — produces different emotions in different people because the interpretations differ.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/how-therapy-works/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/how-therapy-works/ <h2 id="step-one-the-request">Step one: the request</h2> <p>You send a request through the site or write to us directly. The coordinator replies during working hours, clarifies what you need — in general terms, without detail — and suggests a specialist and a time. There is no need to describe everything in messages: that is work for a session, not for a chat.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/for-professionals/supervision/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/for-professionals/supervision/ <h2 id="when-it-is-worth-going-to-supervision">When it is worth going to supervision</h2> <ul> <li><strong>The case is not moving.</strong> The work is going on, but there is no result, and it is unclear why.</li> <li><strong>Doubts about the conceptualisation.</strong> There is a hypothesis, but no confidence in it.</li> <li><strong>Strong reactions of your own.</strong> The client provokes irritation, pity, boredom or anxiety — and this affects the work.</li> <li><strong>An unfamiliar presentation.</strong> A case has come in from an area where you have no experience.</li> <li><strong>Ethical uncertainty.</strong> A situation where it is not clear what the right thing to do is.</li> <li><strong>Regular support for your practice</strong> — with no particular trigger, as part of the professional standard.</li> </ul> <h2 id="formats">Formats</h2> <h3 id="individual-supervision">Individual supervision</h3> <p>Working through one or several of your cases one to one with a supervisor. Suitable when depth is needed: a complex case, an unusual presentation, sensitive topics you would rather not bring into a group.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/depression/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/depression/ <h2 id="how-depression-works">How depression works</h2> <p>In depression a person stops doing the things that used to bring pleasure and a sense of meaning. The logic is understandable: there is no energy, there will be no joy, so why start. But it is precisely the withdrawal from activity that deprives the brain of its sources of reinforcement — and the mood falls further. A loop forms: fewer actions → worse mood → fewer actions still.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/for-professionals/peer-supervision-groups/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/for-professionals/peer-supervision-groups/ <h2 id="how-peer-supervision-differs-from-supervision">How peer supervision differs from supervision</h2> <p>In supervision there is a more experienced participant who carries responsibility for the quality of the review. In peer supervision the participants are equals: a group of colleagues reviews cases drawing on collective experience.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/schema-therapy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/schema-therapy/ <h2 id="when-ordinary-cbt-is-not-enough">When ordinary CBT is not enough</h2> <p>It happens like this: a person understands their thoughts, has mastered the techniques, does the assignments — and still ends up at the same point again and again. The same relationships, the same script, the same sense of not measuring up.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/schema-therapy-isst/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/schema-therapy-isst/ <h2 id="what-this-course-is-about">What this course is about</h2> <p>Schema therapy is a development of cognitive behavioural therapy for the cases where brief work does not give a lasting result. It addresses repeating scenarios: the same difficulties in relationships, a chronic sense that &ldquo;something is wrong with me&rdquo;, self-sabotage, emotional instability, personality disorders.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/specialists/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/specialists/ <h2 id="how-we-match-you-with-a-specialist">How we match you with a specialist</h2> <p>Choosing a specialist is not the client&rsquo;s job. You describe what is happening; the coordinator takes account of the nature of the concern, the approach needed, the format and the schedule — and proposes an option. If it does not suit you after the first session, we will suggest another specialist: that is normal and requires no explanation.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/dbt/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/dbt/ <h2 id="who-this-approach-is-for">Who this approach is for</h2> <p>Some people&rsquo;s emotions arise faster, reach greater intensity and subside more slowly than most. This is not a choice and not manipulation — it is a feature of emotional regulation.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/for-professionals/library/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/for-professionals/library/ <p>We have gathered the instruments most often needed in everyday practice: screening, assessment of symptom severity, tracking change over the course of therapy.</p> <p>The library is growing. Materials are provided as they are, for professional use.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/ocd/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/ocd/ <h2 id="why-ocd-is-so-persistent">Why OCD is so persistent</h2> <p>An intrusive thought is frightening. To reduce the anxiety, a person performs a ritual — checks, washes, repeats a phrase, seeks reassurance from those close to them. The anxiety does subside, but not for long, and the brain learns: &ldquo;anxiety is dangerous, the ritual saves me.&rdquo; Next time the thought comes back stronger, and the ritual has to be carried out for longer.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/programmes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/programmes/ <p>Below is the centre&rsquo;s methodology in full: what we teach and which approaches we work in. A programme appearing in the list does not mean enrolment for it is open right now. Current enrolment is on the <a href="https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/">training page</a>; for the other programmes send a request and we will tell you when they start.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/emdr/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/emdr/ <h2 id="what-happens-to-a-traumatic-memory">What happens to a traumatic memory</h2> <p>An ordinary memory is integrated over time into the general stream of memory: we know the event is in the past and can talk about it without living through it again.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/ptsd-and-trauma/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/ptsd-and-trauma/ <h2 id="what-a-traumatic-reaction-is">What a traumatic reaction is</h2> <p>With an ordinary memory we know the event is in the past. With a traumatic one the memory has not been &ldquo;filed&rdquo; in the normal way: it comes back in fragments — images, sounds, bodily sensations — and is experienced as happening now.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/webinars/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/webinars/ <h2 id="how-a-webinar-differs-from-a-programme">How a webinar differs from a programme</h2> <p>A programme gives you a system. A webinar solves one task: working through a specific technique, showing work with a particular concern, discussing a recent study. Two or three hours, after which you have one working tool — no more and no less.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/act/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/act/ <h2 id="a-change-of-aim">A change of aim</h2> <p>The classical logic: to live well you first have to get rid of anxiety, sadness, self-doubt. ACT puts the question differently: what if that condition cannot be met?</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/eating-disorders/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/eating-disorders/ <h2 id="what-this-is-really-about">What this is really about</h2> <p>Eating disorders are rarely &ldquo;about food&rdquo;. Restriction, binge eating and weight control usually serve another function: they give a sense of being in control when everything else is uncontrollable, or they are a way of coping with emotions that are otherwise unbearable.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/teachers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/training/teachers/ <h2 id="how-we-choose-teachers">How we choose teachers</h2> <p>Only someone who uses a technique can teach it. All the centre&rsquo;s teachers run their own practice and attend regular supervision — a professional standard that is the same for teachers and for graduates alike.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/addictions/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/addictions/ <h2 id="why-just-stopping-does-not-work">Why &ldquo;just stopping&rdquo; does not work</h2> <p>Addictive behaviour becomes established as an automatic reaction: a particular situation, emotion or time of day triggers the craving, the craving leads to the action, the action brings quick relief. This link forms independently of decisions and intentions — which is why resolve does not cancel it.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/cft/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/cft/ <h2 id="the-problem-this-approach-solves">The problem this approach solves</h2> <p>A familiar situation: a person understands perfectly well that the thought &ldquo;I am worthless&rdquo; is illogical. They can produce arguments against it. And they still feel exactly the same.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/relationships/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/relationships/ <h2 id="what-we-look-for-first">What we look for first</h2> <p>Not who is to blame. In almost any entrenched conflict there is a cycle: one person makes a move, the other responds, the first reacts to the response — and both end up at a familiar point. Each of them behaves in a way that is understandable and explicable. What changes is not &ldquo;who is right&rdquo; but the cycle itself.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/rebt/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/rebt/ <h2 id="the-key-distinction">The key distinction</h2> <p>REBT distinguishes healthy from unhealthy negative emotions. This is an important point: the approach does not suggest that you should not be upset by bad things.</p> <p>Losing a job is a reason for distress. That is a healthy emotion: it is proportionate to the event and does not stop you acting. But one person experiences distress and another despair that paralyses. The difference is not in the event but in the belief applied to it.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/family-therapy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/family-therapy/ <h2 id="the-core-principle">The core principle</h2> <p>A family is a system. Each person&rsquo;s behaviour affects the others, and almost any entrenched problem is maintained not by one person but by the interaction.</p> <p>From this follows a practical consequence: looking for someone to blame is pointless. Even when it seems that &ldquo;the problem is him&rdquo;, change usually requires everyone&rsquo;s participation — because the others&rsquo; reactions are part of the mechanism.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/emigration-and-adaptation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/therapy/what-we-help-with/emigration-and-adaptation/ <h2 id="why-it-gets-harder-after-moving-not-easier">Why it gets harder after moving, not easier</h2> <p>Often the hardest period comes not in the first months but later. While urgent tasks are being dealt with — documents, housing, work, school — the body runs on mobilisation. When the acute phase ends, what was postponed arrives: grief for the loss of a familiar life, exhaustion, loss of meaning.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/mbsr/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/mbsr/ <h2 id="what-it-is">What it is</h2> <p>MBSR is not therapy and not relaxation. It is an eight-week course teaching one specific skill: noticing what is happening in the body, thoughts and emotions without trying to change or judge it immediately.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/mbct/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/mbct/ <h2 id="the-task-the-programme-was-created-for">The task the programme was created for</h2> <p>Depression tends to return. After one episode the likelihood of another rises noticeably; after three it becomes high. The reason is that each episode entrenches a mechanism: a small dip in mood sets off a familiar chain of thoughts about being inadequate and about hopelessness, and the chain itself winds the state up into a full episode.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/unified-protocol/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/unified-protocol/ <h2 id="the-problem-the-protocol-solves">The problem the protocol solves</h2> <p>Classical CBT developed separate protocols for separate disorders: one for panic, one for social anxiety, one for depression. This works — as long as a person has one disorder.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/more/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/methods/more/ <h2 id="the-observation-the-programme-grew-from">The observation the programme grew from</h2> <p>In prolonged addiction a shift takes place: what used to bring joy — food, company, music, nature — stops bringing it. The reinforcement system reorganises itself around one overwhelming stimulus, and everything else no longer registers as pleasure against that background.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/myths-about-cbt/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/myths-about-cbt/ <p>Cognitive behavioural therapy is the most researched approach in psychotherapy and at the same time one of the most misunderstood. Below are the three ideas that come up most often, and how things actually stand.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/cbt-and-the-brain/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/cbt-and-the-brain/ <p>The question sounds naive, but it matters: if psychotherapy is conversation and exercises, can it change anything at the level of biology? Or do only medicines produce &ldquo;real&rdquo; change?</p> <p>The answer neuroimaging research gives is fairly definite.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/maladaptive-thoughts/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/maladaptive-thoughts/ <p>Working with thoughts has an inconvenient feature: it requires calm, and it is needed precisely when there is no calm. In a moment of intense anxiety, access to the arguments disappears — a person knows that &ldquo;nothing happened the last twenty times&rdquo;, but that knowledge does not fire.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/depression-and-serotonin/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/depression-and-serotonin/ <p>The explanation &ldquo;you have a serotonin deficiency&rdquo; is familiar to almost everyone who has sought help for depression. It is simple, it sounds scientific and it removes blame: the issue is not your character but your chemistry.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/what-is-mindfulness/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/what-is-mindfulness/ <p>The word &ldquo;mindfulness&rdquo; has acquired two opposite reputations: for some it is a serious tool with a research base, for others a corporate fashion for meditation. Let us be clear about the skill in question.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/cbt-for-anxiety-disorders/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://cbtpoland.com/en/blog/cbt-for-anxiety-disorders/ <p>If you ask for which class of disorders psychotherapy works most reliably, the answer is one: the anxiety and phobia spectrum. This is where cognitive behavioural therapy sits in the first line of treatment in practically every national clinical guideline.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/booking/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/booking/ https://cbtpoland.com/en/contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/contact/ <h3 id="the-easiest-ways-to-reach-us">The easiest ways to reach us</h3> <p>If your question is about <strong>training</strong>, tell us which programme interests you and what your background is. That way the coordinator can answer to the point straight away: enrolment dates, schedule, pricing.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/about/for-business/seminars-and-lectures/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/about/for-business/seminars-and-lectures/ <h2 id="when-this-format-fits">When this format fits</h2> <p>When you need to reach many people, introduce a team to a subject, or start a conversation about psychological health in a company where it has not been discussed before. A seminar does not replace skills training, but it removes the main barrier — the idea that psychology is something vague and optional.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/payment/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/payment/ <h2 id="how-to-find-out-the-price">How to find out the price</h2> <p>Send a request on the <a href="https://cbtpoland.com/en/booking/">booking page</a> or write to us directly. In reply you will receive the terms for the specific programme: the full price, the price of a single module, the available options for taking part and the payment procedure.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/personal-data/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/personal-data/ <h2 id="consent-when-submitting-a-form">Consent when submitting a form</h2> <p>By submitting a form on cbtpoland.com you confirm your consent to the processing of the personal data given in it by CBT Poland Center (Warsaw) for the purpose of:</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/privacy-policy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/privacy-policy/ <p>This document describes the processing of personal data of visitors to cbtpoland.com. We comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — RODO (GDPR).</p> <h2 id="1-who-processes-the-data">1. Who processes the data</h2> <p>The data is processed by <strong>CBT Poland Center</strong> (Warsaw, Republic of Poland). Registration of the legal entity is in progress; once it is complete, this section will state the full name, address and registration numbers.</p> https://cbtpoland.com/en/about/for-business/training-courses/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://cbtpoland.com/en/about/for-business/training-courses/ <h2 id="how-a-course-differs-from-a-lecture">How a course differs from a lecture</h2> <p>A lecture gives understanding. A course gives a skill. On skills courses most of the time goes on exercises, working through participants&rsquo; real work situations and feedback — that is how a skill transfers into actual work rather than staying in someone&rsquo;s notes.</p>