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Do you worry a lot about the impressions you are making on other people?
Social anxiety is one of the most persistent psychological disorders if left untreated. Its symptoms include: worrying a lot about what other people think of you, experiencing stress when meeting new people, avoiding conversations or expressing a controversial opinion, nervousness when speaking in front of a group, and excessive worrying about past or future mistakes.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a well known approach for treating anxiety problems. Its effectiveness has been demonstrated in countless clinical trials over many years. CBT has the potential to help you with your anxiety and mood issues.
CBTpsych.com is a website that targets social anxiety. It has been under development since 2007, and builds upon decades of real world clinical experience. The goal of CBTpsych.com is to provide private, inexpensive, evidence-based therapy to a wide audience. It is a fully automated system that identifies your specific anxieties, and uses CBT and a tailored treatment to target your symptoms.
We hope you have a look around the site, and if you feel we might be able to help, we look forward to hearing from you.
Ross and Fjola
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Associate Professor Ross G. Menzies was appointed Director and Consultant Clinical Psychologist of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic, The University of Sydney, in 1991. He currently holds over $5 million in national competitive research grants. He has produced over 130 international journal manuscripts, books and book chapters and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and leading universities and institutions around the world. For ten years, he was the Head and Director of the Anxiety and Stress Research Group, a collaborative research grouping of academics across Australian universities. He is the past NSW President, and twice National President, of the Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He was the Convenor of the 29th National Conference of the AACBT in Sydney in 2006, and is the editor of Australia’s national CBT scientific journal, Behaviour Change. He has recently been appointed the Convenor of the 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, to be held in Sydney in July, 2016. He continues to attract patients from across metropolitan Sydney, rural NSW, interstate and from overseas, with many individuals and families travelling thousands of kilometres to receive treatment at his private practice.
Dr Fjola Dogg Helgadottir has completed four degrees in psychology across two continents. Her PhD research focused on innovative computer-based treatments for the anxiety disorders. She has received several major awards for her cutting edge use of technology in CBT, including Australia’s prestigious Tracey Goodall Early Career Award for Research Achievement. In addition, she has trained to the highest level as a clinical psychologist in Australia, and run a highly successful private clinical psychology practice in Sydney Australia. She is currently a Senior Research Clinician at the Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University.
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CBT is the number one evidence based psychological therapies; with over 1000 randomised controlled trials supporing its efficacy for anxiety and depression. It is a good way to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that maintain axniety in your day to day live.
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CBTpsych.com is:
- discrete
- based on award winning research
- get the benefit of internationally recognized experts, right from the comfort of your own home
- fully automated, with a personal touch
- sound files where you hear from Ross and Fjola
- give overview: number of lessons, exercises, automated feedback, etc.
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Do you experience any of the following?
- worry about what other people think of you?
- worry about if other people are upset withyou?
- worry about talking new people are parties?
- worry about speaking in front of other people
- worry about not being able to perform in social situations
If so, you would likely benefit from the program.
It is also ideal for people in the following sitations:
- Too busy to attend therapy in person? Since CBTpsych.com is online and fully automated, you can log on whenever and whereever you are. Perfect for your hectic schedule.
- Live in a remote location, without easy access to high quality therapy
- Traditional therapy is expensive. CBTpsych.com has no ongoin fees. You get 6 months of unlimited access to the program for less than the cost of a typical one hour session.
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I did the CBTpsych.com program over a 4 and a half-month period. It made me use my time on the internet a lot better; as I started going to the CBTpsych.com instead of reading the news and spending time on facebook. At the end, I found myself a lot more confident in approaching other people, and working with Fjola and Ross online has helped me live more true to my self, not always worrying of what other people are expecting of me. It is amazing how freeing this is! D.H.
I got the opportunity to work with the CBTpsych.com a few years after I had sought therapy in person for social anxiety. I wished when I was suffering from my debilitating social anxiety that I would have been able to get help like this. Working with the CBTpsych has been amazing, I have reiterated some of the things I learned in actual therapy and also learned so many new things. I am so pleased that this is going to be available to other people who finds them self in the web of debilitating social anxiety. A.Z.
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CBTpsych.com is currently in the final stages of development. We are aiming for a June 2012 release, so please check back soon. Also, please contact us if you would like to be part of our free beta testing program.
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Address:
AICBT Pty Ltd.
PO Box,
Oxford, Oxfordshire,
UK
Phone:
...coming soon
Email:
fjola@CBTpsych.com
ross@CBTpsych.com
