Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the most researched therapeutic approaches to date. Numerous studies prove that it affects people who engage in it with the help of a qualified therapist.
CBT is effective for many mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, eating disorders, and trauma disorders. It supports the idea that people have cognitions, or thoughts, that are unhelpful that can lead to unhelpful behaviors. To change these behaviors, CBT therapists help clients examine their negative ways of thinking.
Your CBT therapist will first examine your negative thought patterns. Recognizing your unhelpful thoughts can lead to clarity about your actions. Once you understand how your unhelpful thoughts influence your behavior, your therapist will work with you to identify more helpful ways of thinking. Additionally, your therapist will help you find more positive ways of coping with negative thoughts and strong emotions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy utilizes individualized learning through homework activities that can help you more efficiently integrate the strategies you learn in therapy into your everyday life. Once you’ve incorporated some of these strategies into your daily life, your therapist will work with you to continue to reshape any negative or unhelpful ways of thinking that might arise.
Therapists Who Specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
I approach my practice as someone who will listen and help you find out how to be your best you. Our time together will be productive and respectful, providing you with the encouragement and strength to overcome life's challenges. I am a licensed clinical social worker with a Master's degree from the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. Following my graduate work, I completed the Trauma...
Change is a part of living. Struggle is normal. I assist clients through identifying strengths and cultivating tools to cope with unexpected life events, stress, and the challenges of everyday living. I'm rooted in an integrative wellness approach bringing various aspects of self and community together (mind, body, spirit, environmental). Through creativity and structure, I can assist you, or y...
I provide therapeutic services to pre-teens, adolescents and adults who are dealing with a variety of issues. I have experience working in schools, residential and outpatient settings. I help clients gain insight, learn better coping skills and make changes within themselves that allow them to experience life in a more positive way. My hope is that the knowledge and tools clients gain in therap...
"At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end." If you're looking for relief from addiction, co-dependency, anxiety or depression, let me help you on your journey to freedom. With more than 20 years of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I specialize in the treatment of individuals, couples and families to assist with relationship...
With empathy and openness, I help clients live in more authentic ways. I focus on a client's internal motivations for change in order to address what may NOT be working well for them, or to strengthen and maintain what may be working well enough. Clients who work with me in couple's/family counseling, experience me as affirming, fair, balanced, reflective and interactive as needed. I am here to...
I'm a therapist that specializes in helping people resolve relationship issues, depression, and anxiety. I offer tools to help people develop coping skills to handle difficult situations and navigate through stressful life changes. I teach techniques to assist in effective communication, boundary setting, stress management and conflict resolution. I help clients to manage difficult emotions,...
Trying to figure out who you are? What your purpose is? Looking to improve relationships? Wholehearted Counseling is designed to help people improve their overall health and wellness by tailoring treatment specific to the needs of the individual/couple or family. Wholehearted living is a concept that I have adopted not only in the name of my practice but in the way I interact with each client. ...
What are you looking for in a counselor? Someone who "gets it?" Someone who might have walked in your shoes? I too have faced adversity. I myself am "un-married"; a term I coined after my own divorce. I carried my mother through the dementia years and eventual death of my father. Most importantly to me, as a single mother, I led my children through my middle child's 3 years of ALL Leukemia canc...
I am a licensed clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience working with a variety of populations as a life coach and psychologist. My areas of expertise include mood and anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, trauma, work and relationship issues. I have worked in various settings: hospitals, community mental health agencies, correctional system, churches, as well as in private practi...
CURRENTLY FULL 11/24/2020. I offer client focused therapy in a warm, empathetic and non-judgmental environment. We all experience a disruption in equilibrium during our lives at one time or another and need a place to help sort it out. Change can be hard but with the right tools and treatment I believe that we can better manage life's challenges. I can help you to develop healthy and effective...
I believe that people can solve their problems and eliminate painful symptoms within a safe therapeutic relationship. To reach these goals I have found that a cognitive, strength based approach is most helpful for individuals to develop the understanding, skills, self awareness and confidence that may be needed. I work with adults and couples suffering from depressive and anxiety disorders,...
The Transition House Counseling Center provides caring and professional assessment and therapy services for individuals of all ages, couples, and families. We provide a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, where you will find a highly personalized approach tailored to your individual needs. We have your goals in mind and will help you grow to meet those goals. We offer Medication-assisted...
Compassion and hope for getting through difficult changes, dealing with challenging relationships and a solution focused approach when feeling stuck and seeking a better life for ourselves and our loved ones. I provide individual and family therapeutic work. I focus on family systems and relationships in family work. Dealing with transitions at any stage of life is challenging. Loss is a part o...
The people I see tend to have one thing in common. Suffering. This suffering can present itself as depression, anxiety, mood swings, addiction and can negatively impact lives. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an emotion-focused treatment. It is our emotions that lead to problems in our thinking and behaviors. I help my clients learn to get control of their emotions(and mind) in order to...
NOT TAKING NEW CLIENTS at the moment: As an inner-city Chicago native, Stephanie seeks to create a safe place for clients to deepen their awareness of self and others, and work toward a healthier way of interacting with the world. Stephanie has experience working with adults and emerging adults surrounding a wide variety of concerns, including trauma, loss, anxiety, depression, life transitions...
