Our therapists offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in Roanoke, VA

As a licensed professional counselor (LPC), my go-to approach for helping people in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is through defining their current thoughts, identifying negative dialogue, and learning about their CORE beliefs and how they are impacting the individual's emotions and behaviors overall. As a therapist, I find the best benefit to using specific negative dialogue that the client identifies for themselves and working with them to develop a reframe that can counter it effectively, because this process gives a real, tangible way for the client to practice between sessions and change the way they think over time.

As an LPC, I teach the following tools in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): self-awareness; reframing and restructuring thoughts; thought-stopping and/or redirecting thoughts; tracking thoughts, emotions, and behaviors via journaling; identifying specific triggers; learning mindfulness techniques; incorporating the self-coaching model; etc.

As a therapist, I know a client is making meaningful progress in cognitive behavioral therapy when they are verbalizing specific changes they have noticed about themselves, meeting their own goals for therapy, able to reframe thoughts in real-time, having noticeable changes in their behaviors, developing more emotional regulation, etc.

Clients can supplement their time in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) by practicing some of the techniques learned during sessions, completing homework/assignments/projects that have been agreed upon, etc.

To prepare for their first cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) session, an individual can write some goals they may have for counseling, identify the reason they are seeking therapy, write out a list of current medications along with dosages, etc.