Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
in Seattle, WA
Do you feel anxious, overthink, worry, have panic attacks, social anxiety, PTSD, or avoid certain situations because of anxiety or trauma?
How can CBT help?
CBT is a therapy approach that helps you restructure negative thought patterns. It is based on the idea that thoughts are like blueprints for our minds that shape how we perceive, interpret, and respond to various situations and interactions in our lives. By identifying and restructuring negative thought patterns, you can successfully reduce anxiety, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, the impact of traumatic experiences, and various other emotional struggles you may be experiencing. CBT equips you with powerful strategies that reframe and restructure your thinking in a way that creates lasting relief from your symptoms and leaves you feeling empowered, capable, and in-control.
What will I get out of my CBT sessions?
- Reframe and restructure negative thought patterns using science-backed strategies that have decades of scientific evidence
- Learn fast-acting techniques to reduce anxiety and other types of emotional distress
- Practice effective skills in every session that are directly relevant to your current day-to-day life
- Break free from vicious cycles that you may be stuck in – with or without your awareness
- Get eye-opening new perspectives for powerful transformations
- Free yourself from limiting beliefs that are holding you back
- Learn effective emotional regulation strategies to successfully deal with difficult emotions and triggering situations
- From thought to action: learn how to translate the cognitive skills you learn into effective behavioral changes that make a real, observable difference in your life.
- Bring self-compassion into your daily life with specific, easy-to-use strategies
- The best part? The skills you learn will last your whole life. CBT has been scientifically shown to create lasting results that will be with you for years to come. Now that’s getting real lifetime value!
Take CBT to the next level with Schema Therapy
Schema Therapy is an advanced cognitive behavioral treatment approach that starts with a foundation of traditional CBT and then builds on it by addressing deeper, lifelong patterns of thinking and behavior that traditional CBT may not fully resolve. While CBT focuses on identifying and restructuring maladaptive thoughts in the present, Schema Therapy goes further by targeting and providing healing for the core emotional wounds and unmet emotional needs that gave rise to the unhealthy patterns you experience in your life today. Schema Therapy integrates cognitive, behavioral, attachment-based, experiential, and emotion-focused techniques for deeper healing. It is especially helpful for people with more chronic mental health struggles, recurring relationship difficulties, attachment concerns, or complex trauma.
CBT + ACT: A game-changer duo
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a newer cognitive behavioral therapy approach, also with significant scientific support. Combining CBT and ACT creates a powerful approach that goes beyond just changing thoughts—it helps you build a life driven by your values. While CBT targets negative thought patterns through restructuring, ACT introduces cognitive defusion, teaching you how to effectively defuse the emotional power that thoughts hold over you rather than getting entangled in your thoughts. This reduces the struggle with unhelpful thinking while allowing you to take purposeful action aligned with what truly matters to you. By integrating CBT’s structured strategies with ACT’s values-based approach, you gain both the ability to challenge limiting beliefs and the flexibility to move forward toward alignment with your core values, creating a deeper sense of connection, purpose, and fulfilment in your life.
Therapy with real-life results
Here are some of the results my clients have achieved:
- Went from having severe panic attacks 5x a week to having only a mild nervous sensation once every couple of months
- Went from having intense PTSD flashbacks and nightmares 5-6 days a week to going for several weeks at a time without any flashbacks or nightmares
- Went from repeatedly failing exams due to anxiety (despite knowing the material well) to consistently getting A- grades on exams
- Different student: went from failing most of college courses every semester for 3 years due to deeply rooted feelings of failure to passing every single course with As and Bs for two semesters in a row
- Went from feeling anxious throughout 90% of the day to feeling anxious 30% of the day
- Went from self-doubt and struggles with self-esteem to pursuing a promotion at work
- Went from feeling powerless as a result of childhood trauma to confidently and assertively standing up for herself in multiple situations to the point that even her highly therapy-skeptical family was so astounded that her family then got other family members to seek therapy.
- Went from self-inducing vomiting 1-2x a day due to bulimia to going multiple weeks on end without vomiting, including in previously triggering situations. In addition, was able to engage in social activities involving food instead of avoiding social activities as before.
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