I want to offer you the most life changing tools and practices available. EMDR, mindfulness, and cognitive therapy are the most effective methods I know of in the field of psychology today. All three of these methods focus on our thought processes. Our thoughts are directly linked to our emotions and health; and how we view ourselves, our lives, and our relationships.

What is cognitive therapy?

Our minds are like kaleidoscopes! Change your thoughts and everything changes!

Research shows that the length of time we can have a negative emotion is only 30 seconds unless we add a negative thought.!

Cognitive therapy works learning how to change the thoughts and meanings our minds make based on past conditioning. CBT offers tools to change the screens through which we view ourselves, our lives and relationships. Once learned, these tools provide a means of changing negative emotions and averting destructive moods and behavior.

My approach to cognitive therapy is influenced by new research in the field of neuroplasticity; and the works of Bruce Lipton, Candace Pert, and Byron Katie.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy pairs  mindfulness philosophy and practice with cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. 

Most of us fall into habitual patterns of thought that, frequently, do not support us. We create whole movies in our minds of what is going on around us. Often, when we have been wounded by life circumstances, our conditioned minds make decisions based on 'stories' we create about our painful moments and we create more pain for ourselves.

Discovering we are in control of our thoughts  and stories can come as a relief. Changing them can turn everything around.              

Who benefits from cognitive therapy?

Cognitive therapy is beneficial for anyone wanting to raise life challenges to higher ground: those seeking help with stress management, raising self esteem (building self compassion) and working with career, relationship, and communication issues. Research has shown cognitive behavioral therapy to be particularly beneficial for people experiencing depression or anxiety.

Quotes                                        

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.       -Eckhart Tolle

We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.                    -Bruce Lipton

If you have a problem, it can only be because of your unquestioned thinking. -Byron Katie

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!      -from Auntie Mame

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