Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

    Nothing is more basic than dealing with one’s own personal ideas about how they believe life should be for themselves and others. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a real-time active-directive problem-solving method that helps us understand how our disturbances occur and what we can do to develop a better way to think about the actions of others on us and our actions upon others. This type of counseling is an exciting, active, life enhancing process that anyone can learn to use themselves over time.

    At one time, it was thought that only by going back deeply into one’s childhood could we find the source of our psychological problems. We now know that we can access those past processes through current investigation into how we talk to ourselves and then interpret what we think. This can bring about new insights and result in less upsetting feeling states.

    Epictitus, the philosopher, said, we are not so much disturbed by what we see, but by what we think about what we see and then interpret those events to ourselves. Learning to untangle thoughts and feelings is a pro-active, on-going process that is relatively easy to learn and apply in our everyday life and leads to thinking better, feeling better, and staying better.