Transform thought patterns that keep you stuck.
Practical strategies for lasting relief from anxiety and depression.
What CBT Offers
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides effective tools to identify and change thought patterns that fuel emotional distress. Through this approach, you’ll gain clarity about how specific thoughts influence your feelings and behaviors. Anxiety symptoms decrease as you learn to challenge catastrophic thinking, while depression lifts as you recognize and modify negative self-talk.
Daily challenges become more manageable with practical coping strategies that shift your emotional responses through broadened perspectives. CBT creates lasting change by addressing the connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors—providing skills you can use long after therapy ends.
My CBT Approach
As a certified CBT therapist, I bring specialized training to this evidence-based approach. I’ve worked with diverse clients across various settings, consistently seeing meaningful improvements in anxiety, depression, and trauma-related symptoms.
My CBT work explores the question “How did we get here?”—examining not just current thought patterns but also their origins. This approach integrates CBT’s practical focus on present challenges with an understanding of how past experiences shape our thinking. By identifying core beliefs developed early in life or through significant experiences, we create more profound and lasting change.
I adapt CBT techniques to honor your cultural background and personal experiences. For Spanish-speaking clients, receiving therapy in your primary language allows for nuanced exploration of thoughts and beliefs within their proper cultural context.
CBT sessions blend structure with flexibility as we work together to identify thoughts contributing to distress, examine evidence for these thoughts, develop more balanced perspectives, and practice new responses to challenging situations. This collaborative process empowers you to become your own therapist over time, equipped with strategies to maintain progress independently.
CBT for Specific Challenges
CBT offers effective support for various challenges:
Anxiety: Breaking the cycle of worry by identifying anxious thoughts, challenging catastrophic predictions, and building confidence through gradual exposure to feared situations.
Depression: Recognizing negative thought patterns, increasing meaningful activities, and developing more compassionate self-talk.
Trauma Recovery: Processing difficult experiences, reducing avoidance, and changing unhelpful beliefs that develop after traumatic events.
Perinatal Mental Health: Addressing the unique thought patterns that emerge during pregnancy and early parenthood, including perfectionism, catastrophic thinking about baby’s safety, and identity concerns.
Online CBT in Minnesota & California
Virtual CBT sessions provide consistent, accessible treatment regardless of your location in Minnesota or California. The structured nature of CBT translates effectively to online therapy, with the added benefit of practicing new skills directly in your home environment. In person CBT sessions available in Woodbury, MN.
Through our work together, you’ll gain practical tools for managing difficult emotions while developing a deeper understanding of how your thought patterns developed. This combination creates both immediate relief and lasting change.
