About Therapy and CBT

I fully embrace that wisdom from Carl Rogers who pioneered the counseling profession. Self-awareness and self-acceptance are the starting points for any positive change. We can’t move towards where we want to go without knowing where we are.

Therapy is the process of helping a person alleviate suffering by working with our emotions, thoughts and actions. In a nut shell, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or CBT) is a specific model of therapy based on the premise that our dysfunctional or irrational beliefs/assumptions about ourself, the world or other people are sources of much of our suffering. CBT aims to help reevaluate these beliefs and adopt more helpful and realistic ones through techniques aimed at our emotions, thinking and behaviors.

CBT calls these belief system schemas. These ultimately are what run the show so to speak. CBT posits that we can change our negative schemas and start to see and act in the world differently then we did before.