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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy*

Retrain Your Brain With Goal Based Therapy.

Feel better about yourself and your life by changing the way you think and behave.

  • CBT sessions have structure, focus on change, and teach life-long skills

  • Take a more open, mindful and aware posture

  • Make your life exciting and enjoyable by learning to think differently

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help with Anxiety, adjustment challenges, phobias, life transitions, ADHD, and so much more.

CBT for Anxiety*

What is Anxiety?

  • Fearful ideas of dread

  • Fear of fear

  • Coping through escape or avoidance

  • Perceived inability to handle fear

  • Catastrophic ideas about the future

  • Uncontrollable worrisome ideas

  • increases in heart rate and breathing

  • Upset stomach

  • Flushing in the face

  • Hands and feet feel cold or numb

  • Muscle tension

  • In panic, belief you are dying or are going crazy

Types of Anxiety

  • Phobias: a fear of a specific thing or situation

  • Social Anxiety: fears that you will fail socially and embarrass yourself

  • Panic: Anxiety attacks with racing heart and shortness of breath or other physical symptoms

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Intrusive thoughts (I’m covered in germs) and rituals to decrease the anxiety from the thoughts

  • Generalized Anxiety: Chronic worrying that’s hard to control that creates stress and physical complaints

Cognitive-behavioral Treatment of Anxiety

  • Exposure to the source of the anxiety

  • Learning new safety beliefs

  • Methods to test anxiety-based thoughts to see if they are realistic

  • Mindfulness and relaxation to handle physical reactions of anxiety

  • Prevention of escape, avoidance, or rituals

CBT for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)*

What is ADHD?

Three forms

  1. Mostly impulsive/overactive type

    •  Poor control of impulses, especially regarding things they like

    •  Failing to wait for things to be explained

    • Talking a lot

    •  Trouble stopping things they like to do

    •  Hard time waiting or being patient

    •  Poor planning and high-risk actions

  2. Mostly inattentive type

    • Difficulty Directing attention to less interesting tasks

    • Described often as daydreaming or not listening

    • Trouble staying with a task they don’t find interesting

    • Easily distracted when things they find interesting happen

    • Often forgetful

    • Poor strategies to organize tasks if not interested in them

  3. Combined impulsive and inattentive type

How is ADHD diagnosed?

There is no single test to diagnose ADHD, but people with ADHD show a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity–impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development

  • Inattention: Six or more symptoms of inattention for children up to age 16 years, or five or more for adolescents age 17 years and older and adults; symptoms of inattention have been present for at least 6 months, and they are inappropriate for developmental level

  • Hyperactivity and Impulsivity: Six or more symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity for children up to age 16 years, or five or more for adolescents age 17 years and older and adults; symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity have been present for at least 6 months to an extent that is disruptive and inappropriate for the person’s developmental level

What is CBT of ADHD?

  • Training in organizational skills

  • Self-monitoring of and skills to manage attention

  • Self-control of impulsivity/ Stop-Think-Do

  • Parent management training

  • Sometimes in conjunction with medical management

a new approach

Positive psychology**

Focuses on life’s positive aspects — well-being, happiness, and satisfaction, so you can build a life of purpose, rich with meaning that allows the individual to flourish and thrive.

Supportive Therapy

Helps alleviate symptoms, improve self-esteem, restore relation to reality, regulate impulses and negative thinking, and reinforce the ability to cope with life stressors and challenges. 

Problem-Solving Therapy

Provides patients with tools to identify & solve problems that arise from life stressors, improve overall quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of psychological and physical illness.

*https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/three-types-adhd#types

**https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-problem-solving-therapy-4767991