Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things. My psychotherapy practice is dedicated to helping people overcome difficulties in managing troubling emotions, dysfunctional behaviors, or problems in career, relationship, or life transition.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets distorted or irrational thought as a prime source for emotional disturbance and/or dysfunctional behavior. I immediately felt comfortable with Claude, and was confident that he was listening to me deeply, offering insight at opportune moments, and explaining exercises and tools that I could use on my own to help with specific issues I described.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets distorted or irrational thought as a prime source for emotional disturbance and/or dysfunctional behavior. I immediately felt comfortable with Claude, and was confident that he was listening to me deeply, offering insight at opportune moments, and explaining exercises and tools that I could use on my own to help with specific issues I described.
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My practice is dedicated to helping people overcome difficulties in managing troubling emotions, dysfunctional behaviors, or problems in career, relationship, or life transition. Working primarily in short-term cognitive behavioral models, trouble areas are defined and broken down. Clients are encouraged to collaborate on developing new, healthier perspectives, and effective coping strategies and skills.
Once found, we actively question their purpose and dispute their validity. I see CBT as a form of applied mindfulness and often recommend that clients learn mindfulness meditation as an adjunct to treatment. Dynamics. The word "psychotherapy" commonly evokes the image of the classic psychoanalyst coolly taking notes behind a patient laying on the couch free-associating about their childhood.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets distorted or irrational thought as a prime source for emotional disturbance and/or dysfunctional behavior. In stepping back and taking note of our thoughts and the way they influence our emotion and action, we begin the work of developing new and healthier ways of interacting with those thoughts, and so better manage our emotions and behaviors.
Mindfulness comes out of the tradition of Buddhist meditation practice. Among other benefits, in mindfulness meditation we develop skills of attention, learning to monitor, note, and release cognitive reactions thoughts/judgments about our perceptions, as they happen.
Skills of attention are central in the CBT work as well, though in therapy, rather than noting and releasing all thoughts that rise, we seek out the troublemakers, the irrational ones that may be driving our dysfunctional emotions and/or behaviors.Once found, we actively question their purpose and dispute their validity.
Skills of attention are central in the CBT work as well, though in therapy, rather than noting and releasing all thoughts that rise, we seek out the troublemakers, the irrational ones that may be driving our dysfunctional emotions and/or behaviors.Once found, we actively question their purpose and dispute their validity.
Anxiety is probably the number one condition that I see in my practice. Anxiety is a set of feelings that arise when our sympathetic nervous systems are activated. The parasympathetic nervous system, common to all animals, evolved to increase chances of survival when faced with life threatening situations.
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