Cognitive behavioural therapy near me, with licensed providers in your area

CBT grew out of work in the 1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who described what he called cognitive therapy. Around the same period, the psychologist Albert Ellis developed rational emotive behavior therapy, and both lines of work drew on earlier behavioral research about how habits and responses are learned. Over the following decades these ideas merged into the broad family of methods that clinicians now call cognitive behavioral therapy.

The shared idea behind the family is that thoughts, feelings, body sensations and actions influence one another. In CBT, a client and therapist look at those links together in a practical, structured way, focusing mostly on what is happening in the present rather than spending most of the time on early history.

You will see both spellings on this site and on therapist profiles. "Behavioural" is the British form and "behavioral" is the American one. They describe the same approach.

CBT is not a license of its own. It is an approach that many different licensed clinicians are trained in. On NearbyTherapy you will find CBT on profiles of psychologists near you, licensed professional counselors, clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists. Each of these licenses has its own education path and state board, so a CBT therapist with an LPC and one with a PhD may have quite different backgrounds.

There is no single national credential that a clinician must hold before saying they use CBT. Some therapists complete extra workshops, supervised casework or certification through professional organizations, while others learned CBT as part of their graduate training. That is why asking about training directly is useful.

Claimed profiles are written by the therapists themselves. When a provider claims a profile, they can list CBT as an approach, add the concerns they work with, the insurance they take and their fees, and choose in person, online or both. The approach, concern, insurance and price filters match these claimed profiles only.

Below the claimed results you will see "More licensed providers in" your city. These listings come from the NPPES NPI Registry published by CMS and are updated monthly. They show the name, credential, practice address, phone, NPI and license details when present, with an Unclaimed badge. The registry does not record approaches, so if a registry listing interests you, call the practice and ask whether CBT is part of their work.

CBT sessions are billed the same way as other therapy sessions, so the cost depends on the provider's license, city and whether they are in network with your plan. As broad public information, self pay rates in many US cities often fall somewhere between about 100 and 250 USD per session, and they vary widely. Our guide to therapists that take insurance explains in network care, out of network benefits and superbills, and the article on how much therapy costs goes into more detail.

If you are comparing methods, read about DBT therapy near me, IFS therapist near me and EMDR therapy near me. For help by topic, see anxiety therapist near me and depression therapist near me.

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