What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

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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 promote a calm, relaxed conformable, non-judgmental safe environment that allows clients to express their true emotions, situations and intentions to achieve a long-term positive treatment outcome/resolution. I enjoy working with motivated and disciplined individuals of all ages and backgrounds who want to improve their mental health and are not aware of the variety of treatment options avail...

Anthony Barrett, MA, LMHC

Maitland

Florida

Anthony Barrett is passionate about caring for individuals, couples, and families and the particular ways they struggle. He works in areas of relationships, addiction, and trauma in both individual and group counseling settings. His approach is trauma-informed and relational and his desire is for counseling to be a place where hope, goodness, and wholeness are rediscovered and recultivated toge...

Elizabeth Aulds, LMHC

Orlando

Florida

Elizabeth is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 15 years of experience working with youth and adults going through life transitions, a history of trauma as the result of physical or sexual abuse, struggle with depression, anxiety, grief and loss.