REBT is a practical, action-oriented approach to managing cognitive, emotional, and behavioral disturbances and enhancing personal growth. It is a psychotherapy that teaches individuals to examine their own thoughts, beliefs, and actions and replace those that are self-defeating with more life-enhancing alternatives. According to REBT, it is largely our thinking about events that leads to emotional and behavioral upset. REBT places a good deal of its focus on the present: on currently-held attitudes, painful emotions, and maladaptive behaviors that can sabotage a fuller experience of life.

REBT also provides people with an individualized set of proven techniques for helping them to solve problems. REBT practitioners work closely with individuals, seeking to help uncover their individual set of beliefs (attitudes, expectations and personal rules) that frequently lead to emotional distress. REBT then provides a variety of methods to help people reformulate their dysfunctional beliefs into more sensible, realistic, and helpful ones by employing the powerful REBT technique called "disputing." Ultimately, REBT helps individuals to develop a philosophy and approach to living that can increase their effectiveness and satisfaction at work, in living successfully with others, in parenting and educational settings, in making our community and environment healthier, and in enhancing their own emotional health and personal welfare.

Peter Hall, M.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.(c)
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I practice Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), the pioneering form of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), and I am committed to advancing emotional well-being through the study and application of effective, short-term therapy with long-term results.