Our therapists offer cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in Bensalem, PA

My go-to approach for helping people in cognitive behavioral therapy is to help them understand the specific nature of their challenges and how those challenges can be successfully dealt with through a sensible positive mindset. I enjoy this approach because it relies on principles of human behavior and cognition that have been powerfully demonstrated through extensive research. That's why it is so likely to lead to improvement in my clients' lives.

I make use of the following tools in cognitive behavioral therapy:

• Mindfulness meditation to promote greater awareness of one's thoughts and feelings.
• Successive approximation to promote a focus on and appreciation of any degree of improvement.
• Identifying helpful self-statements to repeat in order to counteract habitual negative thoughts.
• Visualizing successful behaviors to help to make them a reality.

I know a client is making meaningful progress in cognitive behavioral therapy when they are able to report greater satisfaction with their life, specifically with the challenge that brought them to seek therapy.

Clients can supplement their time in cognitive behavioral therapy by cultivating an awareness of the many positives in their life, whatever they may be (such as talents or abilities, supportive friends or family, valued pets or possessions, etc.), and allowing themselves to feel gratitude for some time each day for whatever those positives may be.

To prepare for their first cognitive behavioral therapy session, an individual can list for themselves what their main challenges are and what they would like their goals to be.