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Our thoughts and feelings play an essential role in our behavior. Your distress and symptoms do not occur in a vacuum, but are influenced by your environment. Negative thoughts or feelings are also reinforced as you attempt to adapt to events, challenges and life stages. Such beliefs can result in behaviors that may affect your family, romantic relationships, work, and academics. You cannot control every aspect of the world around you, but you can take control of how you interpret and deal with things in your environment.
Through Cognitive Behavior Therapy, you will be able to identify these negative beliefs, and focus on specific behaviors that are contributing to the problem. You will learn and practice new skills that can then be used in real-world situations. Outside of our sessions, there will be homework assignments such as journal writing, reading, or other methods of self-discovery. Sessions can focus on self-awareness, choice, problem solving, setting goals for the present and future, your strengths and limitations, self-concept, and change.
You should be aware that while therapy offers potential benefits, it also presents possible risks as you discuss unpleasant aspects of your life. You may feel sadness, guilt, anxiety, anger, frustration and other feelings of discomfort as you attempt to make internal changes that will eventually become part of your life’s routine. Some changes may occur quickly and effortlessly, while others will require slow, deliberate, and repeated effort.