At Saber Psychiatry, we use cognitive behavioral therapy techniques (CBT) to improve mental health. We help adults, children, and teens by teaching rational thinking, positive life skills, and confidence-building exercises. Call us at 615.678.7839. We manage our schedule so that we can find open appointments for new clients as well as existing ones.
Explanations of Terms
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based practice that:
- Teaches clients how to identify faulty or unhelpful/obstructive types of thinking
- Helps people to unlearn unhelpful patterns of behavior
- Provides the tools for people to understand their motivations and assumptions, and re-evaluate them
- Teaches problem-solving skills
- Helps people understand that they may make incorrect assumptions about other people’s motivations
- Works with clients to:
- Face fears instead of avoiding them
- Prepare for interactions that they fear
- Calm/relax their minds and bodies
What CBT looks like will vary from client to client as each person is unique.
CBT is used to treat:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Emotional challenges
- PTSD
- Eating disorders
- Other behavioral or emotional-regulatory challenges
Positive Life Skills is another evidence-based program. Children and adolescents who have challenging behaviors or are unhappy often benefit from learning these emotional and behavioral skills, which include:
- Identifying and dealing with emotions
- Good communication
- Learning how to develop healthy relationships
- Positive interactions
- Thinking of multiple solutions to problems
- Creative problem-solving
- Learning to ask for support
- Identifying good role models
- Being a good role model
Again, the specifics vary from family to family or person to person.
Follow-ups of adolescents who completed positive life skills training found:
- Less risk-taking (such as self-harm)
- Better mood
- Fewer fights
- Higher emotional regulation
- Fewer mood disorders and fewer eating disorders
- Better school attendance and performance
Confidence-Building Exercises
Confidence-building is not its own program; it is part of the life skills and CBT approaches as well as other therapies.
Self-confidence is not self-esteem. It does, however, include a realistic assessment of abilities and strengths and the realistic application of evaluation. We can, for example, know that we are never going to be Olympic-quality athletes and enjoy participating in sports. Self-confident people call plumbers when there is an intractable problem instead of breaking the toilet and its connecting pipes.
A person with self-confidence is usually:
- Flexible
- Not afraid to try new things
- Equally unafraid to be wrong
- Willing to ask for help when needed
- Know that she/he/they can provide help when needed
Dr. Moturi and the rest of our team are in Brentwood, convenient to Davidson and Williamson Counties. Call us at 615.678.7839.
Saber Psychiatry
615.678.7839