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3 Focused Steps to Find Emotional Calm during a Storm of Emotions

R.E.A.L. Social Workers

BACKGROUND Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a modality that I often use with my clients. In traditional CBT, we work together to identify thought patterns, and thought content that cause harm or distress. Bailey Consultants, LLC, a private therapy practice that specializes in grief, loss, anxiety, and depression.

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Why Did It Take Me So Long To Accept My Mental Health Medication?

Beautiful Voyager

I started doing an inventory: I launched my own mental health consulting business, completed a few training sessions, quickly boosted my professional network, got involved in various projects and the list goes on. So, I used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, my daily mantra and meditation to deal with them.

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How Much Do You Accommodate Your Kids?

Gary Direnfeld

If the issue reaches a threshold where the parent seeks counseling for the child, very often the counseling of choice is CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy). Ironically, CBT is somewhat the opposite of over-accommodating where the child learns to confront their issues such that the issues may be overcome.

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Treating Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

That’s where cognitive behavior therapy comes in (CBT). CBT is all about learning to think things through to facilitate your decisions and actions. In CBT there are strategies to learn, cognitive or thinking strategies to help better sort things out and allow you to move forward.

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When Your Emotions Betray You

Gary Direnfeld

The whole thing about CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is about using your head to process the situation instead of your gut. That’s how CBT works. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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