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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective therapies for anxiety disorders, and one of the most researched.
The cognitive part of cognitive therapy focuses on our patterns of thinking, and how those thoughts and belief's color our experience. By becoming more aware of our automatic internalized self talk, we can then begin to change it, for healthier, coping thoughts that allow us to move forward in our lives. Our mind plays tricks on us, and when we learn about our patterns of thinking, we can begin to outsmart anxiety. |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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The behavioral aspects of CBT focus on building tools, such as breathing retraining, behavioral plans for increasing affect regulation, as well as exposure to anxiety in order to increase one's tolerance to anxiety. One of the most important aspects of anxiety treatment is that we are able to change our relationship to anxiety, from something that is feared and must be gotten rid of, to something that is understood as natural, inevitable, but not horrible, something we can overcome.
If you've never done CBT, you might think of therapy as just recounting the week, talking about your parents, or see therapy as someone just needing a friend to talk to. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is goal directed, focusing on helping you change your life for the better, and learning tools, doing exercises to shift your thinking, and creating lasting change quickly, so that you are able to end therapy and not have to keep coming back.
If you've never done CBT, you might think of therapy as just recounting the week, talking about your parents, or see therapy as someone just needing a friend to talk to. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is goal directed, focusing on helping you change your life for the better, and learning tools, doing exercises to shift your thinking, and creating lasting change quickly, so that you are able to end therapy and not have to keep coming back.
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