Therapy
At Brooklyn Behavioral Therapy, we are committed to providing evidence-based treatment - treatment that works. Here are some of the kinds of therapy we offer.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) was developed to help people struggling with extremely volatile and intense emotions, challenging interpersonal relationships, suicidal thoughts, and impulsive behavior. DBT treatment for clients consists of individual therapy, skills training, and phone coaching aimed at better understanding emotions and behaviors that are causing problems in people's lives and providing tools to better manage them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps you identify patterns in thinking and behavior that are causing problems in your life and figure out how to change things in order to have a different outcome. This involves identifying thoughts, emotions, and beliefs you might hold about the world and providing concrete tools to manage them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a kind of cognitive behavioral therapy that helps clients reduce emotional distress through observing thoughts and emotions and taking values-based action. It is extremely effective for anxiety, depression, and many other disorders.
Couples
We provide couples therapy using DBT for Couples and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Both of these modalities are focused on increasing connection with your partner, communicating accurately and effectively, decreasing problematic behavior, and understanding and managing difficult emotions when they come up. We also provide structured, time-limited precommitment/premarital counseling, discernment counseling, and separation counseling.
Prolonged Exposure
We provide DBT-Prolonged Exposure, an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. DBT-PE aims to reduce the distress caused by traumatic experiences and the effect traumatic experiences have on our lives.
Exposure and Response Prevention
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is the gold standard treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It uses exposure techniques to reduce the distress caused by intrusive thoughts and the time and energy taken up by rituals.
CBT for Insomnia
CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I) is a short-term, evidence-based treatment for chronic insomnia. It is highly effective at reducing insomnia and its effects and reducing dependence on sleep medications.
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