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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Treatment Areas

  • Anxiety

    • Generalized Anxiety

    • Social Anxiety

    • Health Anxiety

    • Phobias

    • OCD

    • Panic

  • Coping with and managing chronic medical conditions

  • Changing health behaviors (e.g., smoking, exercise, diet)

  • ADHD

  • Stress Management

  • Adjustment Difficulties

Online counselling

CBT Sessions

Skills Learned in CBT

Effectiveness of CBT

I provide cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to individuals who are age 18 and older. After an initial evaluation we will begin by identifying your goals for therapy. We will work towards your goals by gaining an understanding of how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors impact one another in ways that either help or hinder you. After we have identified patterns in problematic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, my role will be to support you while teaching you how to use CBT skills to change problematic patterns and promote positive patterns. Your role will involve being an active participant in therapy and working on agreed upon goals and skills in between sessions. Ultimately, my aim is to help you become your own therapist.

An assumption of CBT is that your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are learned. In our work, you will learn new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that will allow you to reach your goals. Examples of CBT skills include cognitive restructuring (changing maladaptive thought patterns), behavioral activation (increase and maintain desired behaviors), and exposure (gradual exposure to feared situations to decrease anxiety over time). Additionally, I use motivational interviewing techniques to promote your desired behavior change and I teach Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills such as mindfulness, emotion regulation skills, and assertiveness skills as needed.

The efficacy of CBT has been examined in hundreds of scientific studies, making it the most widely studied form of psychotherapy. Results of this empirical research provide a strong evidence-base that CBT is an effective treatment for a wide variety of problems, including anxiety, depression, stress, chronic pain and fatigue, distress due to general medical conditions, anger management, and insomnia.

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