Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are two forms of psychotherapy that have gained widespread popularity over the past few decades. While both are evidence-based therapies that are effective in treating a range of mental health conditions, they differ in their approach and techniques. Though DBT is technically a subtype of CBT, with both harnessing changes in thoughts and behavior patterns, DBT does differ from other forms of CBT—we’ll just call those other types “CBT” here—in important ways.  CBT seeks to give people the ability to recognize when their thoughts and actions might become troublesome, and gives…