Overview Conditions Treated

CBT is evidence based to treat

  • Depression: Often marked by persistent sadness, hopelessness, low energy, and deep feelings of guilt, depression can impact your ability to function day to day. CBT helps you understand and challenge the thoughts that maintain these patterns.

    Bipolar Disorder (Depressive Phases): While bipolar disorder involves mood swings between highs and lows, CBT focuses on managing the depressive episodes—helping you navigate feelings of emptiness, fatigue, and self-doubt with evidence-based strategies.

  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): Characterized by ongoing, excessive worry and restlessness, GAD can make it difficult to focus or relax. CBT provides structure to identify worry loops and develop healthier thinking patterns.

    Panic Disorder: Involves sudden panic attacks accompanied by physical symptoms like heart palpitations or shortness of breath. CBT focuses on reducing fear of future attacks and regaining a sense of control.

    Social Anxiety Disorder: This type of anxiety causes intense fear of judgment or embarrassment in social settings. CBT helps reframe social fears and build confidence in real-life interactions.

    Specific Phobias: CBT effectively targets phobias—intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations—by gradually reducing avoidance and desensitizing emotional responses.

  • Binge Eating Disorder: Characterized by consuming large quantities of food in a short period, often tied to emotional distress. CBT helps identify triggers and develop healthier coping strategies.

    Bulimia Nervosa: Involves cycles of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors like purging. CBT addresses the underlying thought patterns and emotional regulation challenges that maintain this cycle.

  • CBT supports individuals working through substance use by focusing on identifying cravings, understanding thought patterns that lead to relapse, and learning tools to manage urges and create sustainable change.

  • People with these conditions experience overwhelming worry about their health, often despite medical reassurance. CBT works to reduce these fears by challenging the thoughts and behaviors that reinforce health-related anxiety.

  • This includes chronic self-doubt, perfectionism, and a negative self-image. CBT helps reframe harsh self-talk and develop a more balanced, compassionate internal narrative—building confidence from the inside out.

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Involves distressing intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions). CBT teaches skills to reduce compulsive behavior and reframe obsessive thinking.

    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance following a traumatic experience. CBT offers structured tools to process trauma and rebuild a sense of safety.

DBT is evidence based to treat

  • DBT was originally developed to treat Borderline Personality Disorder and remains one of the most effective therapies for it. This condition is often marked by emotional instability, intense mood swings, impulsive behaviors, unstable relationships, and chronic feelings of emptiness. DBT provides structured support, teaching skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness.

  • DBT is a leading approach for individuals who experience chronic thoughts of suicide or engage in self-harming behaviors. Whether in adolescents or adults, DBT helps reduce these life-threatening patterns by replacing them with safer, more effective coping strategies while building a meaningful life worth living.

  • For those who experience emotions as overwhelming, unpredictable, or hard to control, DBT targets the root of emotional dysregulation. Clients learn how to identify and manage intense feelings, respond thoughtfully instead of reactively, and regain a sense of stability and control in their daily lives.

  • DBT offers a stabilizing approach for individuals with PTSD—especially those with complex trauma. It’s often used before or alongside trauma-focused therapy to help clients tolerate distress, manage emotional flashbacks, and maintain safety throughout the healing process.

  • When traditional therapies or medications haven’t worked, DBT can offer new hope. For clients facing persistent or treatment-resistant depression—especially when paired with emotional dysregulation—DBT teaches concrete tools to break the cycle of hopelessness, emotional reactivity, and self-criticism.

  • DBT is particularly useful for individuals with binge eating or bulimia, especially when impulsivity or emotional triggers are involved. The therapy helps clients recognize patterns, manage urges, and build healthier responses to distress without relying on disordered eating behaviors.

  • For those struggling with addiction—often alongside trauma or mood disorders—DBT provides an integrated approach. It focuses on reducing harmful behaviors while helping clients build a fulfilling, values-driven life without relying on substances for relief.

  • DBT is highly effective for teens dealing with behaviors like self-harm, risky sexual activity, truancy, and intense emotional outbursts. The structured, skills-based approach helps adolescents regulate emotions, improve communication, and reduce impulsive behaviors—often with family involvement.

  • While DBT is not a primary treatment for Bipolar Disorder, it works well as a complementary therapy. It helps individuals manage emotional reactivity and maintain stability between mood episodes through skills like mindfulness and emotion regulation.

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