Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is an individual treatment for young people that explores links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. We may often suggest CBT if a young person has a clinically significant co-existing mental health condition e.g. depression, social anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

Research suggests that CBT is unlikely to be effective when young people are very underweight. There is good evidence that brain function, particularly, in relation to making personal changes to thinking or behaviour, is compromised when brains are undernourished.