Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Is a psychological treatment modality that I use most in the treatment of my clientele. I find it to be highly effective and it helps my clients recognize negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT can be used to treat a wide range of emotional health issues such as: depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and can also be used in conjunction with medication. There are other disorders that CBT has been shown to be extremely useful across the age spectrum.
CBT helps the clients to identify specific negative thoughts which are the real cause of their dysfunction. The way you think affects how you feel, think, and behave. In my practice we work together to identify the negative automatic thought patterns, and how to change them to more realistic or effective actions, through cognitive restructuring as developed by Aaron Beck in the 1960’s.
There are many areas that CBT has shown how useful it can be. Negative thinking is habit forming and can only be replaced by another thought, hopefully it will be a positive thought.