Ariel Garten is a psychotherapist in Toronto Specializing in Gestalt, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Art Therapy.

Psychotherapy can help

• Manage Infertility
• Reduce stress / Stress Management
• Reduce anxiety
• Overcome Depression
• Find a place for emotion
• Resolve trauma
• Improve family relations
• Reduce of chronic pain
• Change habits that don't work
• Understand roots of behaviours
• Conquer phobia
• Quit Smoking
• Weight Loss
• Excel in life
• Set goals and achieve goals
• Enhance Creativity

CBT beats Depression, Anxiety and Stress

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a therapeutic method based on the idea that changing your thoughts will change your actions which changes your mood.

Let’s do a little thought experiment:

You walk into a party and hold the thought in your head that everybody there will hate you.
How will you act? Awkwardly or a-socially
How will people respond? Awkwardly, or they will not engage you
What will your feedback be? That they don’t like you
How will you feel? Bad

What if you walked into the same party, and held the thought in your head that people are generally nice and friendly
Well how will you act? Pretty nice and friendly
How will people respond? Generally smiling back
What will you feedback be? That yes, they are friendly
How will you feel? Some variation on GOOD.

What was the difference in those two situations?

The people and environment were the same, the difference was the though you held in your head at the beginning. Negative thoughts lead to self-fulfilled negative feelings, balanced thoughts lead to positive interaction and positive feelings.

We can control most aspects of our life using the same idea. Our mood, relationships and outlook are guided by the thoughts we hold in our head.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches you how to examine, identify and gain control of the thoughts that are causing undue grief in your life. That might be depression, anxiety, stress, social anxiety or low self-esteem.

These thoughts lead to the downward spiral of depression, open negative thought begetting a negative mood, and the next negative thought. Learning how to identify and stop the cycle is invaluable for life-long control of your depression, and very worthwhile for anyone to learn to not be at the mercy of their emotional reactions to a perceived situation.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has been shown to be as effective as medication in combating clinical depression.

It focuses on current symptoms, thoughts and behaviours and offers concrete ways to restructure them.

A course of cognitive behavioural therapy can be applied in a rigorous program of 12 sessions. I often like to teach the skills of CBT and combine it with other therapeutic modalities for an inspiring and skill-building approach to CBT based-change.

To learn more about CBT or for a free consultation, call (416) 839-9943.

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"Ariel is a visionary who inspires us with new knowledge and new perceptions." - S.S.