Let’s talk about…CBT for specific phobias
🎧 Listen Here In this episode, Helen is joined by Becky and Romanah to talk about specific phobias and how CBT can help. Becky shares her personal experience of living with a phobia of medical situations, also known as blood-injury phobia, what it took for her to seek help, and what the journey through therapy […]
Let’s talk about…Tinnitus and can CBT really help?
🎧 Listen Here In this episode, Helen is joined by Colin Blowers, James Jackson, and Hashir Aazh for a thoughtful conversation about tinnitus and how cognitive behavioural therapy can help. The panel draws on professional expertise and lived experience to explore what tinnitus is, why it can become distressing, and the importance of getting it […]
Let’s talk about…loneliness and how CBT can help
🎧 Listen Here In this episode, Helen is joined by Jackie and Professor Roz Shafran to explore loneliness through both lived experience and clinical psychology perspectives. Jackie shares her personal journey with anxiety, bereavement, and loneliness, describing how these experiences affected her mental health and led her to seek CBT support. She reflects on what […]
Let’s talk about…CBT and the menopause
🎧 Listen Here In this episode, Helen Macdonald talks with CBT therapist Sally Tribe about the impact of menopause and how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can help. Sally shares her own experience of perimenopause, describes the wide range of symptoms people can experience, and explains how CBT can support those affected. The discussion covers the biological, […]
Let’s Talk About…Access to Mental Health Services for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (World Mental Health Day 2025)
🎧 Listen Here It’s World Mental Health Day 2025, and this year’s theme is ‘access to services – mental health in catastrophes and emergencies’. The theme highlights the importance of people being able to protect their mental health in times of global instability. In this special episode of Lets’ Talk about CBT, Helen Macdonald speaks […]
Let’s talk about…Low Intensity CBT
🎧 Listen Here Ever heard of low Intensity CBT and wondered what it was all about? Or what it would be like to receive it? In this episode of Let’s Talk about CBT, Helen talks to Laura Stevenson-Young, a cognitive behavioural therapist and Director of Low Intensity CBT Clinical Training at Newcastle University and Emily […]
Let’s talk about…the Mental Health Jedi
🎧 Listen Here In this episode, Helen Macdonald speaks with Chris Frederick- advocate, suicide survivor, founder of Project Soul Stride, and self-described “Mental Health Jedi.” Chris shares his deeply personal journey, from childhood trauma and racial adversity to becoming a mental health advocate and what helped his recovery- and the things that didn’t. Resources & […]
Let’s Talk About…Digital CBT and Cultural Connection
In this latest episode of Let’s Talk About CBT, host Helen Macdonald is joined by two international guests- Tafi Mazikana and Sherrie Steyn who share their journey from CBT service user and therapist to CBT innovators. Tafi, originally from…
