Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a treatment modality, working to identify how thoughts(cognitions), emotions and behaviors relate to each other while then making adjustments to your behaviors and thoughts to treat many mental health problems. Goals of CBT can be to learning to identify and recognize how one’s thinking errors/cognitive distortions can lead to one’s behaviors, and vice versa, leading to a developed plan to make changes to improve one’s quality of life.

Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP) is the specific form of CBT that is utilized to treat anxiety disorders. Research has found it to be the most effective for the treatment of anxiety disorders*. CBT has also been show to be effective for many other mental health concerns.

 All clinicians at the Center for Anxiety Disorders are trained and utilize CBT as the main treatment modality with their clients.

*Abramowitz JS. Effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A quantitative review. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1997;65:44–52. Abramowitz JS. The psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Can J Psychiatry. 2006;51:407–16).