Maria Froilan

Using CBT and Trauma-Focused Methods in Online Care

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. In practice this means working on specific skills like worry management, behavioral experiments, and structured problem solving to address issues such as anxiety, mood disturbances, and stress.

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process and integrate painful or traumatic experiences in ways that reduce their ongoing impact. This approach combines safety-building, gradual processing, and practical strategies to manage distressing memories, intrusive symptoms, or emotional reactivity that follow trauma and abuse.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to understand their needs, goals, and preferences, and then tailor techniques from CBT, trauma-focused work, or a combination to fit the situation. This helps ensure the plan matches what the client hopes to achieve.

Online therapy offers flexible access through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow continuity of care from different locations within California, and support a range of communication styles so clients can engage in ways that feel most comfortable to them.