COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY in nc
Healing that honors your story, your pace, and your nervous system
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most widely researched and effective therapies for anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm, and behavior challenges. It’s practical, structured, and focused on helping people understand how their thoughts, emotions, and actions influence each other.
For kids, teens, and young adults, CBT offers clear, approachable tools that build confidence, emotional regulation, and healthier coping skills.
Whether you're seeking help for childhood anxiety, school stress, worry, or emotional patterns that feel hard to manage, CBT provides strategies you can use in everyday life.
CBT helps people understand patterns and create change that lasts
What cognitive behavioral therapy can help with
CBT is highly effective for a range of concerns, including:
Anxiety and excessive worry
Panic or fear-based responses
School stress or academic pressure
Social anxiety or self-doubt
Low self-esteem or confidence
motional regulation struggles
Negative thought patterns
Stress, overwhelm, or burnout
Perfectionism and comparison
Life transitions or adjustment difficulty
Our approach to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT at Flourish Wellness is warm, developmentally appropriate, and paced around comfort and readiness. While CBT is structured, we adapt it to the age, personality, and needs of each client.
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Understanding Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviors
CBT helps people learn how their thoughts influence emotions and actions. For kids and teens, we simplify this into clear, relatable examples that make it easy to understand and practice.
Building Coping Skills and Emotional Regulation
CBT equips clients with practical tools for managing anxiety, calming their nervous system, and navigating stressful moments. This is especially effective for cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and childhood worry.
Strengthening Confidence and Problem Solving
CBT invites clients to explore new skills, choices, and coping strategies. As they practice these tools in real life, confidence naturally grows.
Challenging Unhelpful Patterns
Together, we identify negative or unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced, realistic ones. This helps reduce anxiety, overthinking, and emotional reactivity.
- Talking through challenges in a structured, supportive way
- Learning coping skills, grounding techniques, or mindfulness tools
- Identifying and reframing unhelpful thoughts
- Practicing emotional regulation
- Setting small, achievable goals
- Using worksheets, visuals, or activities (especially for kids)
- Applying new skills to real-life situations
- Tracking progress and celebrating growth
What CBT sessions may look like
Depending on the age and goals of the client, CBT sessions can include:
CBT is practical and empowering, you walk away with tools you can use immediately.
In person and online CBT therapy across North Carolina
Whether you're near Raleigh or anywhere else in the state, you can access cognitive behavioral therapy through in-person sessions or secure telehealth. Trauma therapy is also available in Virginia, South Carolina, and Maryland.
- Therapists trained in child, teen, and young adult CBT
- Warm, developmentally appropriate sessions
- A balance of structure and connection
- Evidence-based strategies that create real change
- Trauma-informed and relationship-centered approach
- Flexible online and in-person scheduling
Why clients choose flourish wellness for CBT
CBT is not just a therapy model — it’s a set of lifelong skills.
