About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that highlights the connection between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The method helps to identify unhelpful patterns or thinking and learned behaviors. The primary focus is creating goals and emphasizing strategies to address the here and now rather than the past.
Common Challenges
- Feeling as if you're not good enough or hypercritical of yourself
- Automatically assuming the worst possible outcomes in any situation
- Excessive replaying of uncontrollable and repetitive thoughts about stressful scenarios or the potential for disaster
- Losing interest in hobbies and pulling away from others
How We Work
- Thought challenging
identifying cognitive distortions or all-or-nothing thinking to compare against reality.
- Guided discovery
answering a series of questions to help one identify their own beliefs and assumptions rather than those that have been based on their context or socialization.
- Skills training
integrating practical tools such as diaphragmatic breathing, pressure point relaxation and other coping methods to be accessed when stress or anxiety show up in daily life.