CBT for Anxiety and Depression

Therapy in NJ, NY and Psypact States

Your anxiety and depression are keeping you from your life…

  • Maybe your depression just won't go away.

  • Your anxiety keeps getting worse and you can't sleep or calm down.

  • Your anxiety may have stopped you from doing things you have always done.

  • Your depression may keep you from doing the things you have always enjoyed.

  • Maybe your adolescent is refusing to go to school and you don’t know what to do.

  • Panic attacks may be keeping you from living your life.

CBT can help turn this around!

CBT is a method that focuses on your current difficulties and not on your past. It is a collaborative approach, for which the client and the therapist build a model together including:

  • emotions

  • thoughts

  • upsetting situations

  • interpersonal difficulties

Treatment focuses on:

  • Changing thoughts that keep us stuck.

  • Accepting and managing our reactions to things that can not be changed.

  • Developing coping and emotional regulation skills.

  • Exposure to events and situations that we currently avoid or have great difficulty approaching.

How does CBT work?

CBT treatment is comprised of changing thoughts (cognitive) and changing behaviors (behavioral).

The cognitive work focuses on:

  • Identifying problematic thoughts and themes

  • Acknowledging when they do not accurately reflect reality, and

  • Learning to change and replace them over time.

The behavioral component is exposure:

  • Doing the thing that your brain has decided is dangerous (and is generating ‘false alarms’ for) or too hard.

  • This teaches the brain that the thing is not dangerous and starts to build confidence.

  • This is done in a collaborative way to ensure that the client is in control of their work.

  • Exposure is especially good for depression and anxiety difficulties such as generalized anxiety disorder, phobias/fears, school refusal, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

If you are ready to calm your anxiety and lift your depression...

We know it can be tough to reach out to find help, but it can be the first step on the path to your healing.

We are looking forward to helping you make it happen.

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