Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

I have taken multiple trainings and courses on CBT methods and used a variety of techniques with clients. I attempt to tailor each session to the client but it helps to start by understanding each clients process of thinking, feeling, and behaving and how it operates in their lives. If the client is interested in homework between sessions, I have experience creating exercises to help the client continue their work outside of our sessions.

I am a certified Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. I work with patients to identify, challenge, and replace negative and maladaptive thought patterns. I utilize CBT as a primary base, however I pull from a variety of therapeutic models and techniques to cater to each individual therapeutic needs.

CBT is like a journey of self-discovery and growth, where you gain the power to recognize and gently question thoughts that may not be serving you well. Together, we will explore your unique thought processes, uncovering the keys to unlocking emotional well-being and personal empowerment.

CBT trained since 2016

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is highly researched, and has been for years. It's highly effective for many struggles that we are facing. It's focus is to help identify and restructure long-standing thought patterns that create self-limiting beliefs. Many times, people face these limiting beliefs about themselves and others, without realizing how they got there. Together, we will bring these thoughts, behaviors, and actions to the level of concious awareness, so we can begin to work through it.

I use CBT with clients where we evaluate how cleint's beliefs are contributing to concerns problems. I worked with clients to modify cognitive distortions through thought challenging, and worked to replace these beliefs with more accurate, healthy statements. I used Beck's ABC model for client change.

My doctoral training was rooted in CBT approaches. By understanding our thoughts and how they impact behaviors we want to adjust, we can become more healthy. CBT is one of the most well-researched and validated approaches for therapy.

Our perception is reality. The way we perceive a situation, FEELS completely real and we will respond based on that perception. However, not all of our perceptions our helpful or accurate. CBT can help a person distinguish the difference between helpful and unhelpful thoughts so that they don't need to suffer unnecessarily.

CBT teaches us about the connection between our thoughts, feelings and behaviors that follows an activating event. My goal is to bring awareness to how you as the client are able to identify, challenge and replace those irrational thoughts with more rational ones to provide you the freedom of being yourself, and validating your own feelings.

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is my primary therapeutic orientation. I believe that everyone view situations differently based on their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. As a therapist, people tend to react to situations from an emotional state of mind, and make choices based on their negative thought process rather than from a rational or wise mind. As a therapist I would work with client on challenging their negative thought process and help them explore more positive ways to address issues.

I weave in applicable interventions including information on cognitive distortions, assistance in weighing the evidence, and implementation of the downward arrow.

CBT has been the core of my work for over thirty years. Understanding our selves and why we do what we do from a more objective viewpoint can change the choices we make to be more in line with what we want and who we are. Being conscious and intentional in our words and actions helps us to be more authentically ourself. Being aware when we rely on old habits or old beliefs can move us to bravely speak our truth and find the deeper connections to ourselves and others.

CBT can be applied across many different domains to improve the way we think and to gain a better understanding of how our thoughts are the directors of our overall mood and presentation.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is effective in treating a wide variety of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, and many others. CBT focuses on identifying core beliefs, dysfunctional assumptions, and automatic negative thoughts. Changing the way you think can change the way that you feel.

My training and experience in cognitive behavioral therapy is at the heart of much of my therapeutic work. Utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy principles I aid my clients in overcoming limiting beliefs and in setting realistic goals for their lives. I am also trained in trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

Over three decades of using CBT to reframe negative and worry thoughts to help improve mood and decrease anxiety. CBT is helpful for over-thinkers, worriers, those who obsess.

I work with my clients to gain better understanding of the connection between their thoughts, feelings and behaviors.