Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Offers Many Benefits:
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected in such a way that one influences the other — this is a key component of our Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Boynton Beach, Florida. For instance, your thoughts and behaviors impact how you feel while how you feel also impacts your thoughts and behavior. This understanding gives the patient a level of power to improve the unwanted part of the three components by focusing on the other two. This implies that you can modify the feelings that you don’t like simply by changing what you think about and how you behave.
Apart from addiction, our Boynton Beach Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Program also helps in treating substance abuse and various co-occurring disorders such as the following:
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
How Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Treating Addiction Works
Automatic negative thoughts are the main cause behind depression and anxiety disorders (which are majorly the commonest co-occurring disorders with addictions). In other words, automatic thoughts play a major role in making people more likely to use drugs excessively or abuse alcohol.
Recreate Life Counseling’s therapists work with recovering addicts to identify their specific negative automatic thoughts. These thoughts are base on impulse and usually, are created from misconceptions and wrong feelings about fear and self-doubt. Most people use the wrong approach by self-medicating these thoughts and feelings through the use of drugs and alcohol.
The major role of CBT addiction therapy in Palm Beach County is to make an individual be more aware of their thoughts, actions and the impacts each of these has. The therapy will help the individual to have an in-depth understanding of his or her motivations and how drug abuse affects his or her life.
CBT substance abuse therapy in Boynton Beach, Florida, helps to know that many harmful emotions and actions are illogical and irrational. These behaviors may emanate from either environmental factors or experiences the individual experienced in the past.
Recreate Life Counseling’s cognitive behavioral addiction therapy helps patients to overcome drug addiction and alcoholism through the following ways:
- It helps to dismiss wrong beliefs and fears that make an individual to abuse drugs and alcohol.
- It provides self-help resources and tools to improve their moods, and
- It empowers individuals with effective communication skills.