Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Are you depressed? Struggling with anxiety? Stressed? Struggling with irrational beliefs? Are you ready to start working on your thoughts to better your life?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT may be a treatment option that we can offer you at our location in Tallahassee or even at-distance via telehealth. You may have heard of CBT as it is a very well-known direction in modern-day counseling practices. Cognitive-behavioral is usually presented in the 1:1 talk therapy relationship.

How Does Cognitive Behavior Therapy Work?

CBT helps you to focus on how your experiences have formed automatic processes in your thoughts, and behaviors and you learn how to begin to adjust your thoughts and behaviors to better suit you.

The major focuses of treatment or counseling in cognitive behavioral therapy include:

• Thought stopping.
• Change thoughts to change behaviors/outcomes.
• Establishing better belief systems.
• Creating rational thoughts and feelings about life.
• Facing fears and building coping skills.
• Learning how to accept others.
• Questioning automatic thoughts or behaviors.

CBT has been found to be an effective treatment for some major issues or disorders such as:

• Depression
• Conduct issues.
• Adolescent drug use.
• Substance abuse.
• Anger issues.
• OCD.
• ADHD.
• Anxiety
• Eating disorders

How can Cognitive Behavior Therapy Help Me?

Some of the major goals in CBT include:

• Building better understandings about life events.
• Building self-compassion
• Learning how events cause behaviors, and behaviors have consequences.
• Building thinking skills.
• Building behavior skills.
• Feeling less anxious.
• Feeling less depressed.
• Having a choice in your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

At Thoughtwise, we specialize in bringing you counseling treatments and therapeutic options to better your life.

CBT is a safe evidence-based form of talk therapy that asks you to participate in your own wellness and therapy.

CBT approaches treatment by allowing you to work through your thoughts and behaviors with your therapist. There are limitless ways that you can express yourself in this type of therapy. While working with a therapist here at Thoughtwise, we are able to offer you some direction, expertise, and feedback to assist you in your life.

CBT offers you a way to learn about yourself, by talking about the major issues that trouble you, the major goals that you have in your life, and how and why your thoughts and behaviors unfold.

CBT is becoming a favored approach because it is useful in many areas of life and because there are so many things that you can take from this type of therapy. CBT is a way for you to gain deeper insight and better skillsets for life. CBT offers you a social way to make needed changes in your life.

Some exercises that you might partake in:

• Walking your counselor through your “self-talk.”
• Confronting sources of stress or hardship.
• Role-playing.
• Rewording your automatic thoughts out loud.
• Preparing for events in your life.
• Identifying “events,” “thoughts” that come from the event, and “behaviors” that come from the thoughts.