For a long period of time, most people have confused these two terms together. For the purpose of this piece, we’ll differentiate these two phenomenons.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

This is one of the most common practices found in the mental health field. Otherwise referred to as CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy is used to develop efficient and effective coping strategies for individuals that have been afflicted by thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that need to be changed to enable the individual lead a healthier life. Some have defined it as a therapy session where people learn how to manage their problems by simply changing how they think and also behave.

To explain better, an individual that suffers from anxiety may use CBT to treat their anxiety issue. For a start, they could be taught through therapy sessions behaviors or methods that may curb the many effects of anxiety issues. While it has been revealed that CBT cannot completely solve your problem it is capable of managing it. The idea behind CBT is to encourage you to examine how your actions affect how you think and act.

Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy has to do with the integration of hypnosis to help update our subconscious mind to be in line with the conscious mind. It is simply used to influence cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and emotional change. This happens to be a branch of hypnosis but it is quite different from the other traditional schools of hypnotherapy. It involves the drawing of influence from a wide range of theories, then combines each of one of them to ensure that they are in line with the goal, needs, and value of your client. Some of the theories involved include;

•  Neuroscience
•  Evolutionary psychology
•  Positive psychology
•  Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

In a broad sense, cognitive therapy is based on three main principles. First, trance is one of the things we do every day without realizing. Secondly, each behavior has a positive intention. Finally, every individual is unique.

Advantages Of Cognitive Hypnotherapy Over Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

There are quite a number of advantages cognitive hypnotherapy has over cognitive behavioral therapy
and we'll take a few of them.

One of the main principles of cognitive hypnotherapy is that everyone is unique. This simply means that there is no predetermined action that could be taken by anyone to effect a change in his or her life. To achieve the goals and aspirations of individuals, each cognitive hypnotherapy session focuses on achieving the goal of the individual alone. For each client, different theories and sessions will be organized to cater to personal needs. This happens to be one of the main advantages of cognitive hypnotherapy over CBT.

Additionally, cognitive therapy happens to be more effective at the same time taking less time. To
explain this concept, we'll use an example of a smoker who wants to quit the habit. Naturally, CBT will simply prescribe or offer the smoker training that may or may not stop him from smoking. While this may be efficient, it takes a lot of time and the efficiency level is not as high when compared with cognitive therapy. For an individual seeking to quit smoking, cognitive therapy will offer them suggestions and reasons why they should quit. These suggestions will be offered in such a way that the individual will turn away from every thought of lighting a cigarette.

While cognitive therapy happens to be a faster and efficient technique to influence thinking and habits, experts have revealed that combining these two techniques will foster a more efficient and a faster method  of treating anxiety related issues.