Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based form of psychotherapy that helps you understand and change unhelpful thoughts, behaviors, and emotions.
It’s often used in addiction and mental health treatment as an effective tool to manage symptoms and build healthier patterns.
At Summit at Harmony Oaks, we integrate cognitive behavioral therapy as a core part of our treatment programs for depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, and other mental health conditions.
CBT, combined with our other treatment approaches, can help you restore hope and balance in your life. Learn more about our CBT approach today.
About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
Developed by Dr. Aaron Beck in the 1960s, CBT is a versatile and effective therapy approach for an array of mental health disorders. It focuses on identifying and altering the negative thought patterns and behaviors contributing to your addiction or mental health condition.
CBT helps you learn healthier ways to respond to daily challenges. If you struggle with addiction, CBT interventions can help you reduce cravings and avoid relapse. Rather than act on your cravings, CBT gives you techniques to cope with them.
Overall, it’s an effective, evidence-based way to manage symptoms, improve emotional regulation, and develop coping skills.
At Summit at Harmony Oaks, we use CBT to give you emotional guidelines and practical tools to support your journey to lasting recovery.
What Addiction and Mental Health Conditions Does CBT Treat?
CBT helps treat various addiction and mental health conditions.
At Summit at Harmony Oaks, CBT is used in our treatment programs for the following conditions:
- Anxiety disorders: CBT helps people with anxiety identify and challenge cognitive distortions. These are the irrational thought patterns that can contribute to anxious fear and distress. Addressing these distortions helps promote calm and confidence in daily life.
- Depression: CBT helps to reframe negative thoughts. By challenging these negative thoughts, you can improve your mood and motivation.
- Mood disorders: CBT can help manage symptoms of mood disorders like bipolar disorder. It provides tools for managing changes in mood, which supports emotional regulation and stability.
- Personality disorders: CBT helps patients recognize and change destructive patterns. This helps people with personality disorders to build and maintain healthier relationships.
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): CBT can provide a safe space to identify trauma-related thoughts and triggers. It then gives tools to cope with feelings and redirect traumatic thought patterns to regain control over your life.
- Substance abuse: CBT helps address addiction by providing tools to reduce cravings, avoid triggers, and prevent relapse.
At Summit at Harmony Oaks, our cognitive behavioral therapy techniques give you the self-help tools to find hope and sustainable recovery.
Benefits of CBT for Mental Health and Addiction
CBT offers numerous benefits on the journey to recovery.
Here’s how it works:
- Manage symptoms of mental illness: Helps you identify and address negative or distressing thoughts and behaviors.
- Maintain recovery: Teaches you coping skills for mental health problems and helps you recognize and avoid triggers after therapy has ended.
- Provide an alternative to medication: Is an effective alternative when medications aren’t suitable or necessary for treatment.
- Develop coping skills: Provides you tools to handle stressful situations and manage high emotions.
- Improve communication: Teaches you communication skills to help resolve conflicts and maintain healthy relationships.
- Heal from trauma: Helps you process past trauma and move forward in recovery.
- Address chronic symptoms: CBT can help make the distress from long-term conditions more manageable.
- Reduce physical symptoms: CBT can help promote relaxation and emotional regulation, which may help relieve stress-related physical symptoms.
- Short-term treatment, long-term relief: CBT is a short-term approach compared to long-term interventions like psychodynamic therapy. CBT provides practical tools you can start using right away.
Our Mental Health and Addiction Programs That Feature CBT
Summit at Harmony Oaks integrates CBT into our residential and outpatient treatment programs. Each of these programs is designed to help overcome addiction and mental health challenges to help you live a healthier life of recovery.
Our residential treatment program provides a safe, supportive environment for intensive 24/7 recovery. In residential treatment, patients live on-site. This allows you to fully engage in therapy, skill-building, and holistic recovery activities.
Cognitive behavioral therapy plays an integral role in this intensive care. It helps patients address the underlying patterns of substance use disorder, depression, anxiety, and other mental health struggles.
Summit at Harmony Oaks offers flexible outpatient programs that allow you to maintain parts of normal life while pursuing treatment.
Our outpatient treatments include intensive outpatient care and partial hospitalization programs.
- Intensive outpatient programs: Our intensive outpatient program (IOP) allows you to maintain your daily life routines while attending treatment 3-5 days a week. IOP is a great way to transition back into normal life, and CBT helps give you the tools needed to manage your symptoms in real-life situations.
- Partial hospitalization programs: In our partial hospitalization programs (PHP), patients attend intensive care during the day and return home or to one of our nearby recovery residences. This is a good middle ground between 24/7 residential care and our IOP. CBT is integrated as part of your PHP to teach you how to redirect negative thoughts and behaviors in daily life.
If you’re unsure which program might suit you best, contact our friendly team. We’re happy to help you find the best treatment for your needs.
Who Is a Good Fit for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive behavioral therapy is an evidence-based type of therapy that is recommended for many different medical situations.
People who may benefit from CBT include those dealing with:
- Depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorders
- Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Panic disorder
- Various phobias
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep problems, such as insomnia
- Substance use disorder
- Long-term health conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and chronic pain
CBT isn’t a cure for physical symptoms, but it can be used as a tool to cope with the stress and impact of these conditions.
Most Insurance Accepted
As a member of the Harmony Health Group family of treatment programs, we are able to work with many private insurance plans.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy sessions involve talk therapy with a mental health professional. You’ll discuss your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to help your therapist understand your troubles.
Your first session typically begins by talking about specific problems you’ve been facing or recent situations that caused distress. From there, your cognitive behavioral therapist helps you identify unhelpful or negative thinking patterns associated with these current problems.
Together, you and your therapist work on reshaping these negative patterns with healthier, constructive ones. This sometimes involves exercises like role-playing, exposure therapy, and other therapeutic approaches. Skills like problem-solving, mindfulness, and thought-stopping can also be taught during CBT treatment.
After each session, you’ll be given “homework” to help apply your new skills in real-life settings. Over time, these CBT techniques become second nature. This empowers you to handle stress, adjust behavior patterns, and reduce negative thoughts.
Cost of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at Summit
Cognitive behavioral therapy costs vary depending on the number of sessions required and additional services needed for comprehensive treatment.
At Summit at Harmony Oaks, we believe everyone should have access to mental health care. We work with most insurance providers to make therapy as accessible as possible.
If you’re considering CBT, our team can help verify your insurance benefits and discuss the treatment options best suited to your needs.
Overcome Old Patterns with CBT at Summit
Contact UsChange is possible with the right support. CBT is one of the most powerful tools for breaking old patterns and walking the path to sustainable recovery.
Here at Summit at Harmony Oaks, we want to help you on your healing journey. Contact us today to learn more about CBT and how our team can help you overcome addiction and mental health disorders.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy FAQs
CBT helps by identifying the negative thoughts and behavior patterns that contribute to addiction and mental health issues.
You can then develop new, constructive ways to respond to situations and negative thoughts. By doing this, CBT can significantly aid in the recovery process.
CBT is effective because it’s a structured, goal-oriented form of therapy that gives you tools and skills to use in real life. These practical skills can be used long after therapy ends, providing long-lasting support for whatever life throws your way.
The number of CBT sessions needed varies based on the individual. It’s typically a short-term treatment, and most people see benefits after 5 to 20 sessions with a CBT therapist. Some may need to continue CBT longer, while others may see improvement sooner.
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