CBT techniques for a happier, healthier you.

Spring and summer are natural times for renewal. Blue skies, Green shoots and yellow blossoms replace the brown and dour landscape. Formerly gray and dismal, the outside world is suddenly bright and inviting. It has taken a long time to emerge this year in New England, but spring is finally fully upon us.

Now, in the midst of all the natural beauty and greenery, is a perfect time to embrace renewal in our own lives and allow for opportunities for our better selves to emerge. The milder weather and its promise of days spent enjoying the great outdoors is often the perfect catalyst to resurrecting those now long forgotten New Year’s Resolutions that promised a healthier lifestyle. Maybe you had intended to exercise more or change your diet, but something managed to get in the way of progress. As we now move forward and make strides to improve our habits, it is helpful to consider what caused us to slip the first time and leave behind those good intentions!

Stars and Stripes Program for Veterans and their Families

LTC Leo J. Cordier with NECBT founder Capt. Thomas A. Cordier

According to the National Center for PTSD, a division of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most effective treatment for PTSD.[1] At NECBT, we offer our own unique Interpersonal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or I-CBT, tailored for Veterans. I-CBT itself has been developed and continues to be overseen by Thomas Cordier, NECBT’s founder, who served for 23 years active duty with the National Guard.

PTSD manifests in different ways for different people. Often, traumatic memories can be triggered by different sounds, smells, and other sensory input. These memories can return at any time and cause nightmares, or even flashbacks. Patients who are suffering from PTSD-related flashbacks might be avoiding people and situations that trigger the memories of their trauma. They also may be censoring their thoughts, avoiding talking, or even thinking about the experience. PTSD can lead to increased levels of anxiety, anger, irritability, frustration, and sleeplessness. Patients might begin to isolate from others, or find themselves suffering from a sense of emotional numbness.

Join NECBT in honoring our Veterans and Military Service Members.

Did you know that New England Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is proud to serve veterans and military service members? We even have a program tailored specifically for military veterans living with PTSD and their families.

In this week leading up to Memorial Day weekend, our staff at New England Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Psychiatry would like to honor and remember our loved ones who have served, or are currently serving, in the military. We invite all of you to do the same.

Please share, either in the comment section on our blog or on our Facebook page, the names of your loved ones, where and when they served (or are serving), and any other details you would like us to know about them. Feel free to include photos as well.

Today, we honor the father of NECBT founder and retired military captain, Thomas A. Cordier,  LTC Leo J. Cordier, who earned a Purple Heart as a glider pilot in World War II. 

Welcome to NECBT's New Blog!

Welcome to New England Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy's (NECBT) NEW blog page.
NECBT is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy private practice located in Glastonbury, CT.

We specialize in a new methodology of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy known as Interpersonal Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT). I-CBT is an innovative form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy developed by American Psychotherapist and NECBT founder Thomas A. Cordier. The “I” in I-CBT derives from Cordier’s belief that an interpersonal relationship built on trust and rapport is necessary to unravel a patient’s irrational thinking and challenge a patient’s fundamental belief system. Supported by the patient-therapist relationship, I-CBT is taught as a hybrid of CBT rudiments and Emotional Intelligence. 

    
Therapists teach and guide patients through treatment by using a step-by-step manual that supports the core principles of I-CBT. Patients learn therapeutic skills and techniques to help them cope when symptoms arise. Weekly validated testing is incorporated to measure and monitor precisely how a patient is progressing in their treatment. Once both the patient and therapist are satisfied with the progress that has been made, the patient is “graduated” from the I-CBT program. Each patient is assigned one-on-one therapy, group therapy, and a variety of other treatments depending upon individual needs.

I-CBT methods are extremely successful in treating Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, ADD, Behavioral Issues, as well as those who are Low to Moderate on the Autism Spectrum.

If you are interested in learning more, please visit our website.
To speak to someone about booking an appointment, call our office at (860) 430-5515.