COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) Seattle
Seattle CBT Therapists
The experienced therapists at Anchor Light Couples Therapy will join you in your journey to discover, process, and heal in a safe and compassionate environment. Our clinicians believe change happens through building a relationship with their clients based on trust and collaboration.
CBT SUPPORT
What Can CBT Help With?
CBT can support people facing a range of concerns, from anxiety and phobias to sleep, work, and relationship challenges.
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EVIDENCE-BASED THERAPY
What is CBT Therapy?
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) helps create change by focusing on the link between our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions.
AWARENESS
PATTERN EXPLORATION
FORWARD ACTION
We Are Not Our Thoughts
AWARENESS
CBT helps point out that we are not our thoughts. We can run into trouble when we act as if our thoughts are all true. Thoughts can influence behaviors and emotions and behaviors can powerfully affect how we think and feel. It’s a vicious cycle!
Thought → Behavior → Emotion
PATTERN EXPLORATION
CBT helps us look at patterns in the present as opposed to focusing primarily on our personal history. Together, you and your CBT therapist at Anchor Light Couples Therapy will investigate this together. We will explore detailed thought-behavior-emotion patterns, and experimenting with new ways of thinking and acting.
Forward Action
FORWARD ACTION
An essential element to CBT is forward action — engaging in new behavior both in in order to create a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions that truly serves one’s values and goals. Clients will begin practicing tools learned with your therapist between sessions (aka the real world).
With CBT, you can successfully manage symptoms independently over time. As a result, this approach is very active and typically successful either alone or in conjunction with other therapies.
COGNITIVE THERAPY
History of CBT
CBT was first developed in the 1960s by a psychiatrist named Aaron T. Beck, who formulated the idea for the therapy after noticing that many of his patients had internal dialogues that were almost a form of them talking to themselves. He also observed that his patients’ thoughts often impacted their feelings, and he called these emotionally-loaded thoughts “automatic thoughts.” Martin also explains that Beck originally named CBT “cognitive therapy,” because it focuses on each patient’s thought process.
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Benefits of CBT
CBT is an active, skills-based approach that gives you practical tools to use in session and in daily life.
Challenge Unhelpful Thoughts
Learn examine and challenge unhelpful thought patterns.
Reframe Stressful Situations
Learn how to think about situations and stressful events in more helpful ways.
Change Behavior Patterns
Gain behavioral strategies to change unhelpful behavior patterns
Build Relaxation Skills
Gain Relaxation strategies
CBT QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
CBT Therapy involves challenging your thoughts, identifying your emotions and linking them to maladaptive behaviors that may result. Over time, this will elicit changed behaviors.
- Psychosis and/or extreme paranoid disorders related disorders like schizophrenia
- While it could be a good complement, we do not recommend CBT alone for trauma/ptsd/acute stress disorders
- Social anxiety
- Personality disorders
- Panic Disorders
- Grief
The skills learned in CBT therapy are yours. You will be able to use these outside of session which is always the goal – we do not want you to be in therapy forever!
To create changed behaviors and meet goals, we recommend at least 12 sessions of CBT Therapy.
Costs & Coverage
CBT Therapy Pricing
PRICING
CBT Therapy Pricing
Therapy creates a space for you to experience healing and progress in a way that can change your life. But of course, it’s also an investment of both time and finances. When you’re ready to commit to healing and transformation, here is what you can expect.
Standard individual session
(50 minutes) $190
OUT-OF-NETWORK PROVIDER
Insurance
We do not participate with any insurance panels. Anchor Light Couples Therapy is considered an out-of-network provider.
As a courtesy to any individual clients who wish to utilize their insurance benefits, We are happy to verify your out-of-network plan benefits to tell you what portion, if any, may be covered by your health insurance provider.
Out of Network Insurance Options