Online Therapy Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

CBT is a well-studied and effective therapy to address mood, anxiety, stress, and other concerns. It involves bringing awareness to and increasing flexibility with the patterns that influence our day to day, including the problems we have that keep us from living our best lives. CBT focuses on how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and influence one another. In CBT, you will learn strategies to address factors in this process that might be contributing to your difficulties.

 

Strategies We Teach

  • Identifying and modifying unhelpful thinking patterns, including getting more flexible with your thinking and expanding your perspectives

  • Bringing behaviors more in line with what you want for your life

  • Better coping and managing emotions


CBT Is Helpful in Treating

  • Depression

  • Anxiety disorders, including Panic Attacks, Health-related Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety

  • Relationship Concerns

  • General mental health, such as low self esteem, problematic stress, and navigating difficult life changes

  • Chronic Illness and Pain

Exposure Therapy

Though it is difficult to “face our fears,” the research on psychotherapeutic treatment of anxiety resoundingly shows that doing so in a helpful and supportive environment is the key to getting better quicker and staying better longer. Exposure therapy has time and again been shown to be the “gold standard” psychotherapeutic treatment for a variety of anxiety disorders, and variations on exposure therapy are well evidenced for several other disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Our clinicians strive to provide thoughtful, exposure-based interventions that help move our clients forward and see actual results sooner rather than later.

 

Exposure Therapy Is Helpful in Treating

  • Anxiety, including social anxiety, health anxiety, phobias, and panic

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder


Types of Exposure Therapy

  • Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD

  • Prolonged Exposure for PTSD and Trauma

  • Trauma Focused-CBT for Trauma

  • Exposure-based CBT for anxiety

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that emphasizes mindfulness, personal values, and flexibility in our approach to our thoughts and behaviors. We often take an ACT approach while incorporating specific types of therapies, such as ERP and other exposure therapies.

 

What you’ll learn in ACT

  • Mindfulness or staying in the present moment

  • How to pull power away from unhelpful thoughts and feelings

  • Clarity around you personal values

  • How to behave more in line with your goals and values

  • How to become a mindful observer of your thinking, feeling, and behaving processes



Online Therapy

The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened our field’s transition to providing online therapy effectively. Thankfully, there has long been a large body of research emphasizing that online therapy is just as effective as in-person therapy for most disorders and in most cases. Our collective crash course in online living during the COVID-19 pandemic has also made the pragmatic benefits of online therapy clear to therapists and their clients: it increases accessibility to great services and reduces the travel burdens put on the client. Additionally, it has greatly increased access to specialized services to those who live in rural areas or “therapy deserts.” At this time, Houston CBT is providing 100% of our services online, with the goal of increasing availability of in-person sessions in the coming months and years.

 

Online Therapy Is Easy & Effective

  • You can receive high caliber CBT now from anywhere in Texas

  • We use easy, confidential, HIPAA-compliant platforms for video therapy calls

  • The vast majority of anxiety, OCD, and depression treatments can be effectively adapted to online therapy