Dr. Eric Bender

Or the worst is, any therapist, is it normal for therapists to cut their nails during their session with me?

I was like, I don't typically hear of that.

So self-grooming is not ideal.

So sometimes it's in that way, but other times there are people that, you know, I do better with homework.

I do better with CBT that's strict and manualized.

I'll say, I don't,

I don't do that, but maybe you should talk to somebody and let me give you some names of people.

I just want people that come to see me to get the help that they need.

And if that's not for me, that is fine.

Sure.

So cognitive behavioral therapy is a form of therapy that was developed at UPenn.

years ago and it looks at your cognitive thoughts your thoughts and your behaviors so cbt cognitive behavioral therapy and you're looking at the way you think about things you have automatic thoughts about things do you have certain distortions when you think do you have catastrophic thinking so you're looking at these and you're keeping even thought records you're starting to categorize your thoughts understanding them and when you understand them then you can start to have some behavioral changes too

There's exposure response prevention therapy that can be part of CBT.

So you make a hierarchy of fears.

You look at the bottom rung, like what's something, let's say you're afraid of snakes.

Start with that at the bottom.

Let's just use the word snakes a bunch.

And you monitor how you feel on an anxiety scale, one to 10.

You keep doing that until the anxiety goes down to a two or three or four over time, a couple of days, weeks, whatever.

And when it's down consistently, then you go on to the next wrong.