Participants in Cognitive-Behavioral TherapyAddiction can often be a way to cope with traumatic events that have happened in life. That’s why it’s crucial to work through underlying issues with a therapist as part of an addiction treatment program.

Baltimore Detox Center has a substance abuse treatment program that uses therapy programs as the basis for recovery. If you are looking into addiction therapy in Baltimore, our team will work with you to determine precisely which addiction treatment therapies are right for you. We have an array of therapy programs that are part of our addiction treatment programs, including group therapy and individual therapy. Another popular option for a therapy program is cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT.

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What Is CBT?

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an evidence-based therapy program that helps you explore the connection between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. CBT pairs you with a therapist for a number of sessions each week determined in the treatment plan. In these sessions, you learn how to recognize and increase your awareness of unhealthy or distorted thought patterns that often pave the way to destructive or self-defeating behavior. 

Negative thought patterns often accelerate the use of addictive substances, which is why you must change how you think. A change in thinking and feeling likely will result in a change of behavior. At Baltimore Detox Center, our therapists use CBT to equip you with the tools for long-lasting recovery.

CBT can be used to treat a wide variety of mental health disorders that can be the root causes of addiction, including:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Phobias
  • Mood disorders

What Are the Benefits of CBT?

CBT has been used for years in addiction treatment programs because of how effective it can be for people in recovery. But how can CBT enhance your chances of success in recovery?

Some of the main benefits of CBT include, but are not limited to:

  • Learning new coping skills to deal with stress
  • Enhancing communication skills
  • Reducing the symptoms of mental health disorders
  • Healing from past trauma
  • Improving self-esteem and self-confidence
  • Lessening the chances of relapse

What Will You Learn in CBT?

In order for the therapist to recognize what you need to work on, you need to open up about your struggles with addiction. This includes talking about the thoughts and feelings that may have caused your addiction in the first place. While it can be initially hard for someone to open up and feel vulnerable, the more honest you are with yourself and your therapist, the greater your capacity for success.

To encourage this openness and promote healing, CBT has several goals, including:

  • CBT helps you to identify the issues or circumstances which are connected to addiction.
  • This therapy helps you develop an awareness of negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that contribute to addiction.
  • CBT helps you label negative ways of thinking or false beliefs that make addictive behaviors worse.
  • This therapy allows you to evaluate why these thoughts occur and how they can be reshaped or eliminated.

 Discover More About CBT and Your Recovery Today

Baltimore Detox Center provides a wide array of addiction treatment therapies to meet your specific needs for recovery. CBT can help you heal from past trauma, so the need to abuse drugs and alcohol to numb the pain is lessened or eliminated. If you are curious about CBT, our addiction treatment programs, or our addiction treatment therapies, reach out to our caring and knowledgeable team today. You can contact us by calling [Direct] or completing our confidential online form. Don’t wait another day to start your recovery journey.