Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a category of psychotherapy that is commonly used as a way for individuals to talk in therapy, this is where the mental health therapist will work directly with the patient in a more structured setting while attending sessions to help the patient become more aware of any inaccurate or negative thinking they may be doing. This is done to help change their way of thinking and challenge the patient by putting them in different scenarios or situations to make it clearer and provide easier methods on how to respond to the certain way of thinking that is effective.
 
Many of our patients go the route of cognitive-behavioral therapy by themselves; however, there is the option to do it in combination with other available therapies which can help treat mental health disorders but may include depression, eating disorders, and PTSD which is also known as a post-traumatic stress disorder. Patients will need to be diagnosed with a mental health condition to see any benefits from cognitive behavioral therapy, which can be effective to anyone who wants to learn how to manage stressful situations better.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy offers a variety of different types of therapy, depending on the different specialist you end up visiting, each individual specialist may focus on one or more of the following:
 
• Cognitive processing therapy
• Cognitive therapy
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Rational emotive behavior therapy
• Self-instructional training
• Stress inoculation training
 
Cognitive-behavioral therapy, when done correctly can help with a large variety of conditions, some of these common conditions that this particular therapy can help includes:
 
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Obsessive-Compulsive
• Eating Disorders
• Schizophrenia

Cognitive-behavioral therapy can help with any mental health disorders, some of the disorders it can help improve includes:
 
• Depression
• Anxiety disorder
• Phobias
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Sleep disorders
• Eating disorders
• Obsessive-compulsive disorders
• Substance use disorders
• Bipolar disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Sexual disorders
 
We have noticed in certain cases that cognitive-behavioral therapy can be combined with other therapies and treatments to provide even more effective therapy.

Many of our patients have noted they didn’t have much hope when it came to therapy, or any other options available, as they kept thinking the same outcome would be what they are dealing with now. Cognitive-behavioral therapy provides many benefits and new possibilities to our patients, some of these amazing benefits include:
 
• Providing our patients hope with their condition
Many of our patients deal with negative thoughts and feelings when they are dealing with their mental health, as it can often cause you to feel hopeless. Cognitive-behavioral therapy changes this by providing you with hope. Through therapy, you will learn to challenge your thoughts, and begin to open your mind up to new things.
 
• Offering the ability to improve or develop our patient’s self-esteem
If you are dealing with low self-esteem, it will begin to feed negative thoughts and turn your mindset negative, this will then influence the negative behavior, and so on. Cognitive-behavioral therapy offers the ability to stop this toxic pattern, and help you to develop healthier confidence.
 
• Relax our patients
Cognitive-behavioral therapy from a behavioral standpoint shows patients how to control and respond to their symptoms. This will help our patients to regulate their responses to any negative triggers and help reduce symptoms.
 
• Patients have the ability to develop a more rational thought process
Cognitive-behavioral therapy will help our patients to gain more control of their thoughts, this is quite common with any condition, cognitive behavioral therapy will automatically help distortions, and over time will help the process of when you question yourself.
 
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