What is CBT?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is an effective, highly-researched therapy approach that help us address a wide range of challenges including anxiety, depression, motivation, stress, and relationship problems. I use CBT tools to teach you how to help yourself feel better by looking at how the thoughts that you have and the things that you do may be negatively impacting your mood, and from that sense of awareness, we use more tools to create a sense of balance.

Even though we’re often first aware of negative feelings, unbalanced thoughts (that might be scrolling in our mind so quickly we’re not even aware of them) and unhealthy behaviors contribute to to those negative feelings, and those negative feelings contribute to thinking more negative thoughts and not doing the things that boost our mood, so we feel lower, and the cycle continues.

Because your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are connected, changing your thoughts can help shift your feelings, and you will also learn how to activate positive feelings by doing things that make you feel good and fulfilled.

Whether you’re second-guessing yourself, having a hard time getting things started, feeling overwhelmed by a pressure that’s making it really hard to catch a breath, or can’t shake the worry that something’s going to go tragically wrong, CBT can help!

CBT tools can help you slow down the 6,000-60,000 thoughts (depending on who’s researching… but even 6,000 is A LOT!) scrolling through your head each day, understand the negative thoughts that are strongest for you (and around 85% of the thoughts in our head are negative), and guide you to effectively shape them to create balance and resilience. Spoiler alert… it’s more than just “think positive.”

Even if our work together doesn’t focus only on CBT, you’ll likely hear me weave CBT tools into our work together because changing how we think about ourselves and our situation is one of the most effective ways to feel better.

And that’s my goal for you.