"Cognitive restructuring" isn't as culturally popular as its therapy-speak peers, like "toxic" and "gaslighting," but it's a powerful tool pros use to help people adjust their thoughts. Though it's ...

A meta-analysis explored the individual components of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and suggested that cognitive restructuring, stimulus control and sleep restrictions provide the ...

People continue to push themselves continuously, hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly. We are taught that we must strive hard and that perhaps our self-worth is tied to what we do and what we achieve, ...

In the last post I discussed the use of stimulus control methods to help manage and overcome insomnia. This post will discuss the use of cognitive techniques in the treatment of insomnia. Some very ...

Music and mental health are independent endeavors that bring people calm, focus and joy. They overlap a lot. (*Understand “mental health” as well-being in the overlapping life contexts of cognition, ...

Sudden gains constitute a striking phenomenon in psychotherapy, characterised by rapid and substantial reductions in symptom severity between consecutive therapy sessions. In the context of cognitive ...

Insight problem solving refers to the abrupt and transformative reorganisation of cognitive representations, typically resulting in an Aha! moment – a sudden experiential clarity that enables the ...