Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. I am your host, Steve B. Sop. I'm an author and mental health counselor. Are you curious about therapy? Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about therapy? Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why? The goal of this podcast is to make therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point discussions.

This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health, just like you would your physical health.

Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to better health.

I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental

health, and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology

in everyday life, as I feel most of our lives are enmeshed in psychology. I want to introduce the subtle

and not so subtle ways psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts as well as special guests.

So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

Hi and welcome to episode four.

On episode four, I really want to talk about the most effective type of therapy.

And it's not what you think.

And I keep on saying that, but I'll get to my little

punch at the end there. Hopefully some of you have figured it out. But it's hard to quantify what

therapy is best. So let me start off by saying none of a cognitive behavioral therapist,

well trained by Assumption College. And I do actually have a degree that says that I am specializing cognitive behavioral

therapy.

It also says that I'm specializing children and family, but I don't work with children or families

at this point, which makes it a moot point.

But, you know, always keep your eyes open for what interests you and how it may change over time.

So cognitive behavioral therapy.

It's really well known.

Aaron T. Beck, the Institute that officially recognizes Assumption College as a cognitive behavioral therapy school, is the founder of that.

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