Cognitive Processing Therapy

Have you experienced one or more severe stressors or traumatic events in your life and are ready to move on? Have you sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD and have made little progress? Do you know your ACES score? Are you suffering from PTSD and seeking treatment in the Tallahassee area?

What is Cognitive Processing Therapy?

Cognitive Processing Therapy is an evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioral approach to therapy (CBT) designed to treat and reduce symptoms of PTSD and traumatic experiences.

Cognitive Processing Therapy is a:

• Unique type of CBT talk therapy.
• Trauma-informed care counseling approach.
• Way for you to begin recognizing and challenging automatic thought processes.
• Treatment for prolonged effects of a traumatic experience
• Treatment for PTSD.

How does Cognitive Processing Therapy Work?

Cognitive processing therapy may offer you an:

• Education and therapy in the same session.
• Treatment that helps you modify your thoughts and thought patterns.
• Means for you to change automatic associations built around a traumatic experience.
• Therapy built around new thoughts and experiences.
• Psychology based treatment.
• Opportunity to become more aware of how your emotions and thoughts are connected.
• 1:1 talk therapy or sometimes available in group therapy.
• At distance treatment for PTSD.

Cognitive processing therapy is a treatment model based under Cognitive-behavioral therapy, where certain approaches of CBT talk therapy are applied in Cognitive Processing Therapy.

In Cognitive Processing Therapy, when we approach your thinking, emotions, and memories, we sometimes approach this in a way for you to begin new patterns of thoughts.

One idea that you may be introduced to in Cognitive processing therapy is restructuring and modifying your thoughts and your memories.

You and your therapist may work together to modify your thoughts by:

• Changing the conclusions that you make about people or experiences.
• Challenging thoughts that things are worse than they are.
• Building better skill sets.
• Building emotional reasoning throughout areas of your life.
• Exercising new pathways to understanding.

This type of therapy may be a great opportunity and treatment for you if you:

• Have struggled with PTSD without much progress in treatment.
• Feel good after talking with a counselor.
• Are sad, anxious, or depressed and unable to move past a major event that has occurred in your life.
• Are dealing with the prolonging feelings, thoughts, or emotions from a traumatic experience.
• Are in need to begin moving on after suffering from PTSD or a traumatic experience.

At Thoughtwise in Tallahassee, we have experts that can offer you comprehensive psychological and neuropsychological assessments to evaluate you for PTSD, or other concerns that you may have. If you have experienced a traumatic event in the past, and you are struggling to recover, meeting with us may be what you need right now.

Assessing or identifying the difficulties you face because of a traumatic experience is important for you and your future. After the assessment, we can offer you resources, interventions, or treatments in which may assist you to feel relief from PTSD.