Avy Joseph is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and co-founder of the companies, CityMinds and the College of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy. He is a registered and accredited therapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and a board member of The Association of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapists (AREBT).
His company CityMinds is a leading psychological health therapy centre for individuals and companies working to create better working environments and relationships. Avy also lectures both nationally and internationally and is author of Capstone's Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - your route out of perfectionism, self-sabotage and other every day habits.
He is rapidly becoming one of the UK media's principal experts on CBT with recent features in The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard, The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Metro, Shortlist magazine, Glamour magazine, Woman magazine and Cosmopolitan

Maggie Chapman is a Director and Co-founder of CityMinds and the training organisation CCBH Ltd. She is an experienced therapist who over the years has developed an integrative approach to her work, employing brief solution focused strategies.

Confidence and Success ix

Using CBT xiii

Step 1: Identify What You Want 1

Step 2: Gather Information 25

Step 3: Set Achievable Goals 61

Step 4: Create a Plan 101

Step 5: Take Action 137

Step 6: Keep Focus on the Goal with Feedback 183

Goal Achieved - Now What? 211

About the Authors 217

Acknowledgements 219

Index 221