Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an excellent approach for working with panic disorders, anxiety, phobias, compulsions, and other types of conditions.

The therapist has an ethical and moral duty to support patients through therapeutic listening, helping them identify their strengths, teaching them to accept their limitations, and thus promoting improvements in their quality of life.

CBT is a psychosocial intervention aimed at improving mental health. It focuses on challenging and modifying cognitive distortions and dysfunctional behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and developing personal coping strategies directed at solving current problems.

Originally, CBT was developed for the treatment of depression, but its use has been expanded to include many other mental health conditions, including anxiety. CBT encompasses different cognitive and behavioral psychotherapies that treat specific psychopathologies through evidence-based techniques and strategies.

CBT is a form of therapy that is “problem-focused” and “action-oriented”, which means it is used to address specific problems related to a diagnosed mental health disorder. The therapist’s role is to help the patient discover and practice effective strategies to achieve defined goals and reduce symptoms.

CBT is based on the belief that distorted thinking and maladaptive behaviors play a role in the development and maintenance of psychological disorders, and that symptoms and the associated distress can be reduced by teaching new information-processing skills and coping mechanisms.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is short-term and time-limited. Over the course of individual sessions, you will learn to become your own therapist. You will receive tools that will help you gain more autonomy, take control of your life, understand why you — and only you — have placed yourself in this position at this point in your life, and accept that each person is responsible for their own behavior.