Rob Willson

Rob Willson, PhD, is a cognitive behavioural therapist with over 25 years experience. He teaches and supervises internationally on CBT for OCD and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

Articles & Books From Rob Willson

Article / Updated 06-25-2021
If you are beginning thinking about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), you need to examine openly whether your past experiences have led you to develop core beliefs that may be causing your current emotional difficulties.People are sometimes surprised to find out that CBT considers the past an important aspect of understanding one’s problems.
Step by Step / Updated 06-18-2021
One of the central messages of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is that your thoughts, your attitudes, and the beliefs you hold have a big effect on the way you interpret the world around you and on how you feel. So, if you’re feeling excessively bad, chances are that you’re thinking badly — or, at least, in an unhelpful way.
Article / Updated 08-11-2021
Psychological problems are no more mysterious than physical ones. In the recent past (and even today) people often viewed mental health problems as a sign of intrinsic character flaws. If your body has a problem, that’s understandable, but if your mind has a problem, then something must be wrong with the whole of you.
Article / Updated 12-28-2021
Cognitive behavioral therapy – more commonly referred to as CBT – focuses on the way people think and act to help them with their emotional and behavioral problems.Many of the effective CBT practices we discuss in this book should seem like everyday good sense. In our opinion, CBT does have some very straightforward and clear principles and is a largely sensible and practical approach to helping people overcome problems.
Article / Updated 12-29-2021
Anxiety is a bully. And like most bullies, the more you let it shove you around, the pushier it gets. The principle of facing your fears until your anxiety reduces is one of the cornerstones of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Get to know the nature of anxiety and to identify the ways in which it pushes you about.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies
Retrain your thinking and your life with these simple, scientifically proven techniques!Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT for short, is often cited as the gold standard of psychotherapy. Its techniques allow you to identify the negative thought processes that hold you back and exchange them for new, productive ones that can change your life.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-12-2021
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help you understand how the way you think about yourself and situations in your life impacts your emotions and actions.Learning to form different and more productive perspectives on life can help you feel and act in self-enhancing ways. This commonly involves pushing through anxiety or low mood, challenging negative thoughts, establishing and pursuing viable goals, and looking after your physical self along the way.