Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a compassionate approach addressing thoughts and behaviors. With CBT training, I support clients in recognizing and altering negative thought patterns, fostering healthier behaviors and coping skills. This collaboration aids in navigating challenges, promoting personal growth and understanding.

This is the core of many forms of treatment and offers clients a wide variety of ways to intervene in the areas they are looking to make changes to.

I am a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist.

I am a USC-trained CBT clinician with extensive experience in both applying CBT as well as training others.

Thoughts, feelings and behaviors are interconnected. Therapy is a good way to explore how they impact each other.

I have specialized training in numerous CBT based approaches including: CBT, DBT, and Trauma focused CBT. Increasing awareness around thinking errors, gaining skills in emotional regulation and distress tolerance, increasing emotional awareness and responsiveness, and making value based decisions can be a reality.

Discover the power of CBT – a proven therapeutic approach that focuses on reshaping thoughts and behaviors. With my expertise, we'll work together to identify and challenge unhelpful beliefs, creating a foundation for positive and sustainable change. If you find yourself stuck in cycles of negative thinking or behavior, CBT offers practical tools to break free. Together, we'll explore and reframe thought patterns, empowering you to navigate challenges with a renewed perspective.

CBT and changing behaviors is how I measure change with my clients. I believe in being proactive instead of reactive when it comes to managing a client's behavior in adults and children. Our behavior is what makes or breaks relationships.

Our thoughts influence our behaviors, and examining underlying assumptions that lead to problematic automatic thoughts (and then the behaviors that arise from them) and working to shift these create health.

CBT is based on several core principles: Psychological problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking. Psychological problems are based, in part, on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior. People suffering from psychological problems can learn better ways of coping with them, thereby relieving their symptoms and becoming more effective in their lives. CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns.

I use an eclectic and integrated approach borrowing techniques from person centered, psychodynamic, solution focused, narrative, cognitive, and existential psychotherapy. In addition, I explore concepts from Bowen family system related to family systems. The techniques I have been trained in are grounded in research and evidenced based. Ultimately, however technique/theories are subordinate to our relationship which is my utmost priority in developing with you.

I truly believe that "as you think, so you are". So much of what we are going through can often be improved just from changing our perspective on the situation. CBT is a great modality for reframing our thinking about our daily situations and therefore regaining our power over situations that may be causing us stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is, in my opinion, one of the building blocks of most therapeutic practices. I am certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), CBT+, as well as the Comment Elements Treatment Approach (CETA). If this is your first time in therapy, I find CBT helpful in building understanding around mental health disorders and tools in how to help your brain work for you.

I draw from cognitive-behavioral perspectives to help you understand your relationship between thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. I also implement Exposure Therapy and Exposure with Response Prevention for treatment of anxiety, OCD, and avoidance behaviors. I also use behavioral, DBT, and other skills to help with ADHD, procrastination, and recovery from autistic burnout.

CBT traces the connection between what you think to what you do and then using that connection to change what you do. CBT is an evidence-based, research-backed clinical practice that has shown to alleviate negative feelings and has streamlined healing in my therapy room.