About us

The Reason To Hope (TRTH) addresses all psychosocial maladjustment in a Holistic approach. This team is led by a leading psychologist Mary Wahome and Mentor/Coach Susan Keter who have vast experience in the field. This, they have achieved by working together with a team of highly experienced professionals which include, psychologists, sociologists, additional counselors, marital counselors, family counselors, life coachers, mentors, and trainers.

This is a psycho-social intervention that aims to improve mental health. CBT focuses on the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems and changing unhelpful patterns in cognitions. (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes), behaviors, and emotional regulation. It was originally designed to treat depression, and is now used for a number of mental health conditions, for example anxiety. CBT is a "problem-focused" and "action-oriented" form of therapy, meaning it is used to treat specific problems related to a diagnosed mental disorder. The therapist's role is to assist the client in finding and practicing effective strategies to address the identified goals and decrease symptoms of the disorder.

CBT is based on the belief that thought distortions and maladaptive behaviors play a role in the development and maintenance of psychological disorders, and that symptoms and associated distress can be reduced by teaching new information-processing skills and coping mechanisms.

The goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is not to diagnose a person with a particular disease, but to look at the person as a whole and decide what can be altered. The basic steps in a cognitive-behavioral assessment include:

• Step 1: Identify critical behaviors
• Step 2: Determine whether critical behaviors are excesses or deficits
• Step 3: Evaluate critical behaviors for frequency, duration, or intensity (obtain a baseline)
• Step 4: If excess, attempt to decrease frequency, duration or intensity of behaviors; if deficits, attempt to increase behaviours.

CBT helps individuals replace "maladaptive... coping skills, cognitions, emotions and behaviors with more adaptive ones" by challenging an individual's way of thinking and the way that they react to certain habits or behaviors, but there is still controversy about the degree to which these traditional cognitive elements account for the effects seen with CBT over and above the earlier behavioral elements such as exposure and skills training.

• 1. Assessment or psychological assessment
• 2. Reconceptualization;
• 3. Skills acquisition;
• 4. Skills consolidation and application training;
• 5. Generalization and maintenance;
• 6. Post-treatment assessment follow-up.

CBT was effective at treating schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress, anxiety disorders, bulimia, anorexia, personality disorders and alcohol dependency and substances abuse.

This is the approach where the therapist looks for the unconscious meaning behind the behaviors and then formulates a diagnosis.

In the psychoanalytic approach, the focus is on the unconscious mind rather than the conscious mind. It is built on the foundational idea that your behavior is determined by the experiences from your past that are lodged in your unconscious mind, where you are not aware of them.

There are many methods and techniques that a psychoanalyst may use, but there are four basic components that make up today’s psychoanalysis:

• 1. Interpretation
• 2. Transference analysis
• 3. Technical neutrality
• 4. Countertransference analysis