Changing how you relate to thoughts and emotions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you understand the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Critical or unhelpful thinking patterns can keep us stuck in anxiety, depression, or stress. With CBT, we work together to identify these patterns, challenge them, and develop different ways of thinking and responding to dificult emotions or behaviors. You’ll learn skills to cope with challenges in daily life, improve your mood, and respond to situations more skillfully.
Benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps people understand and change patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that contribute to distress. Benefits of CBT may include:
- Reduced anxiety and worry by learning to step out of unhelpful thought loops and respond to uncertainty more effectively
- Improved mood and motivation, particularly for depression and low mood
- Greater emotional regulation, including better ability to tolerate, understand, and recover from intense emotions
- Relief from trauma-related symptoms, such as intrusive thoughts, avoidance, and heightened emotional or physical sensations
- Increased sense of control and agency when thoughts or emotions feel overwhelming
- Practical coping skills that can be applied outside of therapy and across situations
- Improved stress management in work, school, relationships, and daily life
- Greater flexibility in thinking and behavior, supporting healthier responses to challenges and change
- Long-term benefits, as CBT focuses on building skills that continue to support well-being after therapy ends
