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Change Your Life with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
We use cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to enable you to become calm,
self-assured and enjoy a better quality of life. We will show you ways of
changing your behavior, which will change the way you feel and think. You'll
learn how to erase your fears by gradually facing the situations that trigger
them. This involves taking a series of small steps that bring you into contact
with the circumstances that you fear and avoid.
With practice, you will lose
your fears because they are not truly dangerous. As you begin to feel them
fading you will know the treatment is working. This will inspire you to defeat
it completely and take charge of your life. You will have learned how to face,
embrace, and erase fear. With this new tool at your disposal, you'll be able to
deal with any future signs of returning symptoms and thereby prevent
setbacks. You’ll be your own therapist!
CBT focuses on your present emotional and behavioral difficulties even though
we know that past experiences have contributed to your current problems. It
requires practicing new behaviors from one to two hours per day, which is the
key for eliminating and reducing fear from distressing circumstances. Treatment
is usually for 10 and 25 sessions, and you'll notice that it's working after
just a few sessions.
You'll find our Center to be warm, nonjudgmental and supportive. Many people
have some hesitancy about entering therapy, but once they start feeling better
and thinking clearly, their apprehension evaporates and is replaced by the joy
of knowing they are in charge of their lives.
We have different levels of treatment depending on the severity of the problem.
- Individual Treatment: for those who desire one-on-one visits with the
therapist. Treatment usually involves once or twice a week, 45-50 minute therapy
sessions.
- Intensive Treatment: for those with severe problems that require
therapist supervised assistance in completing the therapeutic work. Treatment
sessions are usually for four hours, five days per week, Monday through Friday.
Click here for more information on our Intensive Treatment
Program
- Medications: For patients who are taking medications, we like to consult with your physician so that we are working together for the best treatment outcome. For patients who are not taking medications and wish to try them, we can provide referrals to psychiatrists who specialize in medication management. Dr. Carolyn Wilson, has experience providing both medication management and cognitive behavior therapy using ERP for OCD. However for those who do not choose to take medications, we can effectively proceed with CBT since research shows that CBT may work just as well with or without medications.
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