[City, State] – [Date] – Contemporary Care announces expansion of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) programs to meet growing demand for this evidence-based treatment. The programs provide access to CBT for depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, eating disorders, and other conditions through both in-person and telehealth formats.
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
Cognitive behavior therapy represents one of the most thoroughly researched psychotherapy approaches. Extensive clinical trials demonstrate CBT effectiveness for numerous mental health conditions. This evidence base makes CBT a first-line treatment recommendation in clinical practice guidelines.
The therapy is based on the premise that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected. Changing unhelpful thought patterns and maladaptive behaviors leads to improved emotions and better functioning.
Conditions Treated
Contemporary Care’s CBT programs address a wide range of mental health conditions. Depression responds to cognitive behavioral approaches that challenge negative thinking patterns and increase engagement in meaningful activities.
Anxiety disorders represent another major focus. CBT for anxiety includes cognitive restructuring to challenge catastrophic thinking and exposure techniques allowing gradual confrontation of feared situations.
Panic disorder treatment helps patients reduce fear of panic sensations and eliminate avoidance behaviors. Social anxiety treatment combines cognitive work with graduated exposure to social situations.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder responds to specialized CBT incorporating exposure and response prevention. PTSD treatment utilizes trauma-focused CBT approaches including cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure.
Eating disorders benefit from CBT addressing distorted thoughts about weight and shape while normalizing eating patterns. Insomnia responds to CBT-I, a specialized protocol targeting sleep-interfering thoughts and behaviors.
CBT Components
Contemporary Care’s CBT programs incorporate several essential elements. Cognitive restructuring teaches patients to identify automatic thoughts arising in response to situations. These thoughts often involve cognitive distortions including all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, and catastrophizing.
Once automatic thoughts are identified, patients learn to evaluate evidence supporting and contradicting them. More balanced alternative thoughts are developed.
Behavioral experiments test beliefs empirically. Behavioral activation counteracts withdrawal and avoidance. Scheduling meaningful activities and gradually increasing engagement produces mood improvements.
Exposure techniques reduce anxiety through graduated confrontation of feared situations.
Treatment Structure
CBT is typically delivered over several months, though complex presentations may require longer courses. Sessions occur weekly, providing regular contact while allowing time between sessions for homework practice.
Each session follows a structured format. Agenda-setting at the beginning ensures important topics are addressed. Homework review examines what patients learned from between-session practice. New material is introduced. Homework is assigned for the coming week.
Homework assignments are crucial to CBT effectiveness. Practicing skills in real-world situations allows generalization beyond therapy sessions.
Therapist Qualifications
Contemporary Care’s CBT programs are delivered by licensed mental health professionals with specialized training in cognitive behavioral approaches. All therapists have graduate-level education in psychology, social work, or counseling.
Additional CBT-specific training ensures competence in this specialized approach. Therapists complete workshops, supervision, and continuing education focused on CBT techniques and protocols.
Therapists receive ongoing supervision and consultation ensuring they deliver CBT with fidelity to evidence-based protocols.
The Academy of Cognitive Therapy offers certification for therapists demonstrating expertise in CBT. Several Contemporary Care therapists hold this certification.
Research Evidence
Research demonstrates CBT effectiveness across numerous conditions. Many patients completing CBT courses experience significant symptom reduction.
Contemporary Care tracks outcomes systematically, using standardized measures to assess treatment effectiveness.
Medication Integration
While CBT works as standalone treatment for mild-to-moderate conditions, combining with medication enhances outcomes for moderate-to-severe presentations. Medications provide symptom relief while CBT addresses underlying patterns.
Contemporary Care’s integrated model allows coordination between therapists and prescribers. Providers communicate regularly about treatment progress and adjust interventions as needed.
Some patients successfully discontinue medication after completing CBT. The skills learned in therapy provide tools for managing symptoms without ongoing medication.
Telehealth Delivery
Contemporary Care offers CBT through video appointments. Research demonstrates that telehealth CBT produces outcomes equivalent to in-person treatment.
The structured nature of treatment, use of worksheets and handouts, and homework assignments all work through telehealth.
Video sessions eliminate travel time and allow therapy from comfortable environments. Telehealth expands geographical reach for individuals in areas with limited mental health resources.
Group CBT
In addition to individual therapy, Contemporary Care offers group CBT programs for certain conditions. Groups provide cost-effective treatment while offering benefits of group formats.
Group CBT follows structured curricula teaching specific skills. Members practice techniques together, providing feedback and encouragement. Between-session homework allows individual application of group-learned skills.
Groups meet weekly for structured sessions.
Access to Treatment
Appointment availability allows rapid treatment initiation. Evening and weekend sessions accommodate working individuals.
Insurance acceptance makes treatment financially accessible. Most commercial insurance plans and Medicare cover CBT. Financial coordinators verify coverage before treatment begins.
About Contemporary Care
Contemporary Care is a psychiatric practice specializing in evidence-based treatment for depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and other mental health conditions.
In addition to CBT, Contemporary Care offers medication management, dialectical behavior therapy, supportive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and esketamine treatment. The practice operates locations in Connecticut, New York, and Florida, with telehealth services in multiple states.
Appointments are available by calling (800) 504-5185 or visiting contemporarycare.net.
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