Cognitive Therapy is a highly effective approach that helps people to combat and overcome such difficulties as high anxiety/stress, panic attacks, depression, anger, relationship problems, phobias, worry, obsessions, compulsions, addictions (food or drugs), social anxiety, sexual problems, and low self-esteem. The course of treatment is typically short-term (approximately 10-20 sessions), and people often enjoy rapid and enduring relief from their symptoms. Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy goes further, to help people address and break long-standing or particularly stubborn patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that arise from deep-seated beliefs, such as “I’m unlovable,” “I’m a failure,” “People don’t care about me,” “I’m not important,” “Something bad is going to happen,” “People will leave me,” “I will never get my needs met,” “I will never be good enough,” etc. Remarkable results have been achieved via the Schema-Focused approach, even for people who have previously found other therapies to be ineffective.