Santa Rosa Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
The Santa Rosa Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy offers treatment for a wide variety of disorders including depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, habit disorders such as trichotillomania and skin picking, insomnia, and challenging behaviors in young children. Treatment is available for children, teens, and adults. The center is centrally located in downtown Santa Rosa.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a collaborative approach to therapy designed to help clients learn the skills they need in order to lead more successful and fulfilling lives. The client and therapist work together in much the same way that an athlete and coach would. In sports, the athlete has a desire to win and the coach helps the athlete to fulfill that desire. In CBT, with the help of the therapist, the client identifies the problems they would like to work on and establishes the goals of therapy. Then, together, they work to achieve those goals. The therapy is very active, with the client doing “homework” between sessions just as an athlete practices between games. With CBT the client must practice what they are learning in order to affect change.
CBT is considered a brief treatment. For most specific problems, significant improvement can be seen between 12 and 22 sessions.