Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in Hamden, CT, and online for residents of Connecticut, New York City, and Massachusetts.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) in Connecticut is a solution-focused therapeutic treatment approach that seeks to modify ineffective thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. CBT centers around the idea that thoughts and perceptions influence our emotions and reactions.
Thus, we can attempt to identify the cognitions that might be impacting our mood and behavior, determine whether those thoughts are accurate depictions of reality, and seek to alter any maladaptive thought patterns and beliefs.
Cognitive Distortions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in CT helps people identify common thought patterns that interfere with our mood and effective behavior such as:
* All or Nothing Thinking * Overgeneralization
* Mental Filters * Discounting the Positive
* Jumping to Conclusions * Magnification
* Emotional Reasoning * Should Statements
* Labeling * Personalization
Can Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Connecticut Help?
Evidence suggests that CBT can effective in treating many mental health difficulties, including major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and many others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapeutic approach that helps you learn how to change your emotions and actions by altering how you are thinking about events and situations in your life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps you recognize habitual ways of thinking that are getting in your way of being effective, and find ways to change those thought patterns.
How does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy work?
While in CBT, you will learn to become more aware of patterns in your thinking that may be leading to ineffective behaviors and painful emotions. You will also learn how to re-evaluate those thoughts, make them more accurate, and thus change your emotional and behavioral reactions. For example, you may have a tendency in new group situations to think “no one is going to like me”, which leads to anxiety and behaviors like avoidance of the situation entirely or avoidance of talking with new people. CBT therapy would help you notice this pattern, and identify an alternate thought, such as “some people may like me and other people may not, in the same way I will like some people and not others. I will try to find the people I would like at this event.” You likely would experience less anxiety, more acceptance, and the chance you would attend the event and try to find like minded people.
When is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy needed?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been shown to be effective in treating anxiety, depression, substance use problems, eating disorders, marital difficulties, and other mental illnesses. If you find that you tend to have habitual ways of thinking and responding to your life, and you feel there could be more effective ways to react, then CBT can be very effective.
How long does the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy process take?
Some difficulties can be addressed in a short period of time with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, such as 12 weeks. Other people with more long standing mental health struggles or a desire for ongoing support, may benefit from a longer course of CBT treatment, closer to 12 months or longer.
How do I know if Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Connecticut is right for me?
If you like a very practical, structured, and goal oriented approach to treatment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Connecticut may be right for you. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy also utilizes a lot of in session and out of session practice, so that you can learn how to utilize these strategies yourself in a sustainable way well after you discharge from treatment. Thus, CBT is best for motivated individuals who want to learn and practice new ways of thinking and responding to stressful or difficult aspects of their lives.
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