Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Carlsbad

cognitive behavioral therapy san diegoCognitive Behavior Therapy in San Diego

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in San Diego is goal-specific psychotherapy approach that uses hands-on, practical strategies for problem solving.

The focus is to identify patterns of faulty thinking or misguided behaviors that lead to struggles in order to improve feelings about circumstances, about oneself, and the world in general.

Various life issues can be treated with this approach, including but not limited to:

  • poor sleep patterns,
  • challenging relationships,
  • substance use,
  • anxiety, and
  • depression.

Cognitive Behavioral therapy is able to transform attitudes and behaviors by focusing on the irrational thoughts and beliefs that lead to behaviors when facing emotional problems.

This form of therapy tends to be shorter than other therapeutic approaches. It usually takes about five to ten months for you to process most of your emotional problems.

My recommendation is that most people attend one session per week, each session lasting approximately 50 minutes.

During this time, are able to work together to identify the problems and then develop new strategies to overcome them.

Cognitive Behavioral therapy will teach you to a set of applicable principles that you can use for the rest of your life.

How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help

By utilizing Cognitive Behavioral therapy, it allows me to personalize and customize your therapeutic experience to match your specific needs and personality.This approach does not focus on the events themselves that trigger your emotional problems, but rather the meanings you assign to the events. If thoughts are negative, it can block the ability to disconfirm the truth.

In other words, you will continue to hold on to the same old thoughts and fail to learn anything new.

By using Cognitive Behavioral therapy, I can teach you:

  • how to manage your anger,
  • decrease anxiety and panic attacks,
  • deal with child and adolescent problems,
  • decrease chronic fatigue or pain,
  • decrease depression,
  • maintain sobriety,
  • fight eating problems,
  • manage obsessive-compulsive behaviors,
  • decrease phobias,
  • decrease PTSD symptoms, and
  • establish healthy sexual or relational problems.

Many of the learned principles will help you improve your quality of life and increase your progress more effectively.

Benefits include becoming more rational, which gives you the ability to think and believe the truth rather than allowing automatic negative thoughts to control your brain.

You will also learn how to control your thinking to stop unwanted thinking patterns.

Your beliefs about yourself will begin to improve in developing self-esteem. You will be able to calm down and relax by knowing how to respond to anxiety in a different way than you had in the past.

Additionally, you expect better outcomes rather than your previous expectations of poor outcomes.

This is due to having expectations that are now more in line with logic and common sense.

Lastly, when you begin to expect different outcomes, different outcomes will begin to occur.

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