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When you have a traumatic experience,

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it changes the way you think about the world,

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it changes the way you think about yourself,

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it changes the way you think about other people.

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Cognitive Processing Therapy really focuses on intimacy,

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power and control issues, self-esteem,

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and other ways that PTSD has changed the way you function,

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and it helps you look at your thoughts and the way that your

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thought processes may be guiding the way that you behave.

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If we show you how you're thinking and show you that

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some of this thinking may be biased by the trauma you experienced,

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then perhaps you'll change that thinking

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and can allow yourself to open up a little bit,

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give yourself some room to move,

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and see that things may no be as black and white as they seem.

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There's a whole skill that we teach you

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in terms of how to challenge a belief like that.

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And it's a hard skill.

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And I've had clients tell me in the past,

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"You're asking me to change the way that I look at the world."

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And I would agree.

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There's a bit of that that's involved.

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But really, they're in the driver's seat.

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They don't have to change.

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Clients, with me, don't have to change their thinking about

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anything if they don't want to.

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But if something is creating a great deal of distress,

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if it's making their life more difficult,

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if it's making them more emotional

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and more unable to do the things that are important to them,

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we want to put on the table, with this therapy,

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"Is there any other way we could look at this that might be helpful?"