Cognitive Therapy

Any local practitioners the Maplewood Online community can recommend?

Thanks in advance.

Good experience with the practice at Summit Medical Group in Westfield, their whole practice is dedicated to CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy. 

https://www.summitmedicalgroup.com/service/Behavioral-Health-and-Cognitive-Therapy-Center/

Great to know, thank you!

zet said:
Good experience with the practice at Summit Medical Group in Westfield, their whole practice is dedicated to CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy. 


https://www.summitmedicalgroup.com/service/Behavioral-Health-and-Cognitive-Therapy-Center/
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 Ditto for SMG/Berkeley Heights. Various practitioners work out of different SMG offices. You can read their bios online.

also close by in Springfield 

http://thecwcnj.com/index

Diane Magee at SMG in Livingston.

What are people's experience with it, how can it help?

With CBT you don’t lay on the couch for months or years talking about your childhood and parents. ;-)

Instead you quickly move to behaviors and actions that will make a difference for you.

Action directed, leading to insights into what you can do to feel better.

With CBT patients get homework that tries out strategies to live better.

Months, not years of therapy more typically.

lanky said:
What are people's experience with it, how can it help?

 Think behavior modification rather than analysis. That's oversimplifying, but you get the idea.

Cognitive behavioral therapy trains people to view the world differently. The assumption is that chronically depressed or chronically anxious people view the world in distorted ways and that these habits can be changed. David Burns wrote a great self-help book called Feeling Good which is a terrific place to start if you really wanna know about content a CBT. It is also the only psychotherapy that is shown to be as or more effective than pharmacotherapy.

jeffl said:
Cognitive behavioral therapy trains people to view the world differently. The assumption is that chronically depressed or chronically anxious people view the world in distorted ways and that these habits can be changed. David Burns wrote a great self-help book called Feeling Good which is a terrific place to start if you really wanna know about content a CBT. It is also the only psychotherapy that is shown to be as or more effective than pharmacotherapy.

 They always say that cognitive behavioral is the best kind based on research, but I think it's probably the easiest to study and collect data on. I think insurance companies like that type because it's shorter and less expensive.  It's not so easy to chart the value of psychodynamic therapy, which is the kind that people associate with long years of laying on a couch.  In reality, you usually sit on a couch in both types and probably a lot of therapists use a mix of therapies. Also, the quality of the therapist must be part of evaluation.  Also, some situations are better for specific kinds of therapy and some people do better with one kind over another.  

In my experience, cognitive therapy only made me worse. Later, I had psychodynamic therapy for some years and  felt it was a tremendous help; even now, years later I still feel like I have new insights that help me deal with things that I did not realize at the time--the benefits keep coming.

nan said:

jeffl said:
Cognitive behavioral therapy trains people to view the world differently. The assumption is that chronically depressed or chronically anxious people view the world in distorted ways and that these habits can be changed. David Burns wrote a great self-help book called Feeling Good which is a terrific place to start if you really wanna know about content a CBT. It is also the only psychotherapy that is shown to be as or more effective than pharmacotherapy.

 They always say that cognitive behavioral is the best kind based on research, but I think it's probably the easiest to study and collect data on. I think insurance companies like that type because it's shorter and less expensive.  It's not so easy to chart the value of psychodynamic therapy, which is the kind that people associate with long years of laying on a couch.  In reality, you usually sit on a couch in both types and probably a lot of therapists use a mix of therapies. Also, the quality of the therapist must be part of evaluation.  Also, some situations are better for specific kinds of therapy and some people do better with one kind over another.  
In my experience, cognitive therapy only made me worse. Later, I had psychodynamic therapy for some years and  felt it was a tremendous help; even now, years later I still feel like I have new insights that help me deal with things that I did not realize at the time--the benefits keep coming.

 I wasn’t trying to disparage psychodynamic psychotherapies.  Some find them very helpful.  There just has never been a double blind study that showed it superior than drugs.  

This thread is kinda old but I was wondering if the OP was interested in cognitive training rather than cognitive behavioral therapy.