Cognitive Processing (CPT) Therapists in Cockeysville, MD
My ideal client is someone craving peace but caught in the chaos; a child, teen, or adult navigating anxiety, ADHD, or life’s messy transitions. They want more than surface-level coping; they want growth, clarity, and someone who truly gets it. My approach is real, creative, and deeply personal. I go above and beyond to meet you where you are, blending talk, movement, and nature to help you feel rooted, seen, and empowered. Together, we turn overwhelm into understanding and help you become who you were always meant to be. If you’re ready to feel like yourself again, therapy with me is where that healing begins.
My ideal client is someone craving peace but caught in the chaos; a child, teen, or adult navigating anxiety, ADHD, or life’s messy transitions. They want more than surface-level coping; they want growth, clarity, and someone who truly gets it. My approach is real, creative, and deeply personal. I go above and beyond to meet you where you are, blending talk, movement, and nature to help you feel rooted, seen, and empowered. Together, we turn overwhelm into understanding and help you become who you were always meant to be. If you’re ready to feel like yourself again, therapy with me is where that healing begins.
I value utilizing a strengths-based approach to counseling that caters to each person's unique identity while helping them to reach their wellness goals. I work with children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing challenges with anxiety, depression, ADHD, life transitions, and conflict in interpersonal relationships.
I value utilizing a strengths-based approach to counseling that caters to each person's unique identity while helping them to reach their wellness goals. I work with children, adolescents, and young adults experiencing challenges with anxiety, depression, ADHD, life transitions, and conflict in interpersonal relationships.
Often, we believe others are worthy of love, but we are not. Sometimes, our experiences in our lives lead us to think that we are unloveable; we believe that we deserve this and come to the conclusion that we are unloved. These experiences led us to believe we are no longer safe for connection. This is a lie. I would like to invite you to an inverse of the golden rule: Do unto yourself as you would do unto others. I welcome anyone who wants this, who doesn't know how to live like this, and/or who is skeptical that this is possible. I believe we are made to become wholly the best version of ourselves.
Often, we believe others are worthy of love, but we are not. Sometimes, our experiences in our lives lead us to think that we are unloveable; we believe that we deserve this and come to the conclusion that we are unloved. These experiences led us to believe we are no longer safe for connection. This is a lie. I would like to invite you to an inverse of the golden rule: Do unto yourself as you would do unto others. I welcome anyone who wants this, who doesn't know how to live like this, and/or who is skeptical that this is possible. I believe we are made to become wholly the best version of ourselves.
I am a licensed clinical psychotherapist, a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, a Perry World House Graduate Fellow University of Pennsylvania, and an adjunct professor at the UMD Graduate School of Social Work. Authenticity grounds my work. I practice from a collaborative process, strengths-based, psychodynamic, social justice, trauma-informed, and humanistic framework, with hope and authentic self at the core. Certified and trained in trauma-ISSTD, AFCC, Mediation, Ferentz Institute, EMDR, TF-CBT, IVAT's LEFCC for Family Court Professionals-Litigation Evaluation Involving Abuse Allegations in Family Court Cases.
I am a licensed clinical psychotherapist, a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, a Perry World House Graduate Fellow University of Pennsylvania, and an adjunct professor at the UMD Graduate School of Social Work. Authenticity grounds my work. I practice from a collaborative process, strengths-based, psychodynamic, social justice, trauma-informed, and humanistic framework, with hope and authentic self at the core. Certified and trained in trauma-ISSTD, AFCC, Mediation, Ferentz Institute, EMDR, TF-CBT, IVAT's LEFCC for Family Court Professionals-Litigation Evaluation Involving Abuse Allegations in Family Court Cases.
The first step is the hardest, but you have done it. Life is full of challenges, from depression and anxiety to PTSD, grief, or other life adjustments. Whatever you are facing, counseling can help you learn to manage or overcome it.
The first step is the hardest, but you have done it. Life is full of challenges, from depression and anxiety to PTSD, grief, or other life adjustments. Whatever you are facing, counseling can help you learn to manage or overcome it.
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Sometimes life throws more at us than we can handle. Our experienced team supports individuals facing addiction, trauma, domestic violence, anxiety, depression, and performance challenges, including sports performance.
We offer compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to your unique journey, with in-person and virtual sessions available for your convenience. You can schedule online or by phone, and we also have locations in Lutherville and Baltimore Cross Keys—see our websites for details.
Take the first step toward healing and growth. Reach out today and start your journey to a stronger, healthier you.
Sometimes life throws more at us than we can handle. Our experienced team supports individuals facing addiction, trauma, domestic violence, anxiety, depression, and performance challenges, including sports performance.
We offer compassionate, evidence-based care tailored to your unique journey, with in-person and virtual sessions available for your convenience. You can schedule online or by phone, and we also have locations in Lutherville and Baltimore Cross Keys—see our websites for details.
Take the first step toward healing and growth. Reach out today and start your journey to a stronger, healthier you.
Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming. Whether you're a parent seeking support for your child or teen, a young adult facing life transitions, or someone navigating stress, anxiety, grief, or trauma—I’m here to help you feel heard, grounded, and supported. I’ve had the privilege of working with clients across the lifespan. My approach is collaborative and empowering, offering practical tools and a safe space for growth, healing, and meaningful change.
Finding the right therapist can feel overwhelming. Whether you're a parent seeking support for your child or teen, a young adult facing life transitions, or someone navigating stress, anxiety, grief, or trauma—I’m here to help you feel heard, grounded, and supported. I’ve had the privilege of working with clients across the lifespan. My approach is collaborative and empowering, offering practical tools and a safe space for growth, healing, and meaningful change.
Ranika understands that when individuals are provided a safe space to explore their whole selves, incredible growth and change can take place. Through a non-judgmental atmosphere, a strong therapeutic relationship will develop, helping you gain relief from internal suffering and increase well-being and strength. Ranika remains flexible and open in an effort to cater to your unique needs while ensuring a high standard of quality care. Ranika's approach is to meet you where you are using a strength-based approach.
Ranika understands that when individuals are provided a safe space to explore their whole selves, incredible growth and change can take place. Through a non-judgmental atmosphere, a strong therapeutic relationship will develop, helping you gain relief from internal suffering and increase well-being and strength. Ranika remains flexible and open in an effort to cater to your unique needs while ensuring a high standard of quality care. Ranika's approach is to meet you where you are using a strength-based approach.
I am a licensed clinical social worker for over 20 years. My interactions with clients have been the most rewarding and I always strive to meet clients where they are in their process and journey.
I am a licensed clinical social worker for over 20 years. My interactions with clients have been the most rewarding and I always strive to meet clients where they are in their process and journey.
Accepting New Clients! Hello! Glad you made it to my profile. Are you dealing with anxiety and stressors that you can't quite get a hold of? Feeling strains in your relationships, but not exactly sure how to improve them? Overwhelmed and need someone to listen? Many of us experience difficult things in life and eventually reach a point where we are ready to make sense of them and heal. There are many barriers, both past and present, that get in the way of us healing, growing and seeing the positive aspects of our lives. Therapy is a great first step in helping yourself feel better and become more capable of living the life you want.
Accepting New Clients! Hello! Glad you made it to my profile. Are you dealing with anxiety and stressors that you can't quite get a hold of? Feeling strains in your relationships, but not exactly sure how to improve them? Overwhelmed and need someone to listen? Many of us experience difficult things in life and eventually reach a point where we are ready to make sense of them and heal. There are many barriers, both past and present, that get in the way of us healing, growing and seeing the positive aspects of our lives. Therapy is a great first step in helping yourself feel better and become more capable of living the life you want.
Lyssa Wopat, Counselor-in-Training and CMPC, provides a warm, supportive, and non-judgmental environment where clients feel safe to explore themselves, to heal, and to grow. She takes an integrative approach, drawing from acceptance commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and person-centered therapy, among other modalities. Lyssa adjusts her approach to meet each client’s unique needs and preferences. She believes clients are the true expert on themselves and seeks to support them on their journeys towards change and goals that are meaningful and valuable to them.
Lyssa Wopat, Counselor-in-Training and CMPC, provides a warm, supportive, and non-judgmental environment where clients feel safe to explore themselves, to heal, and to grow. She takes an integrative approach, drawing from acceptance commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and person-centered therapy, among other modalities. Lyssa adjusts her approach to meet each client’s unique needs and preferences. She believes clients are the true expert on themselves and seeks to support them on their journeys towards change and goals that are meaningful and valuable to them.
I am the right Mental Health Yoga Therapist for you if you continue to suffer with depression, anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, grief, unhappiness and a sense of disconnection from the deeper sense of who you are. I will teach you how to feel better about your life with the skills of yoga: breath and meditation; calming your upset or sick body and quieting your constantly negative thoughts. Psychological and medical research support that Yoga, while an ancient philosophy, teaches easy to learn skills that improve physical, emotional and spiritual health. I can guide you to your heart's desire for your life.
I am the right Mental Health Yoga Therapist for you if you continue to suffer with depression, anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, grief, unhappiness and a sense of disconnection from the deeper sense of who you are. I will teach you how to feel better about your life with the skills of yoga: breath and meditation; calming your upset or sick body and quieting your constantly negative thoughts. Psychological and medical research support that Yoga, while an ancient philosophy, teaches easy to learn skills that improve physical, emotional and spiritual health. I can guide you to your heart's desire for your life.
Maryland Senior Counseling-Tsiona Cohen, LCSW-C
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-C, CCM
Online Only
Aging gracefully is all the rage, right? So why doesn't your aging process feel graceful? Illness, chronic pain, financial woes, death of loved ones, and loss of independence are all real problems that many face as they grow older. As an older adult, you may be feeling lonely, isolated, worthless, and hopeless. You worry about your future. As the child of an older adult, you are looking in from the outside and worrying about Mom or Dad. They seem sad or anxious. Getting out to see a therapist is not so easy anymore.
Aging gracefully is all the rage, right? So why doesn't your aging process feel graceful? Illness, chronic pain, financial woes, death of loved ones, and loss of independence are all real problems that many face as they grow older. As an older adult, you may be feeling lonely, isolated, worthless, and hopeless. You worry about your future. As the child of an older adult, you are looking in from the outside and worrying about Mom or Dad. They seem sad or anxious. Getting out to see a therapist is not so easy anymore.
Dual trained in clinical psychology and I/O psychology, I help my clients gain the understanding they need to create self awareness, undo dysfunctional habits, detach from trauma & live fulfilled lives with love & hope. You may be struggling with past trauma, complex relationships, amidst a life transition, a career change, living with mental illness or, caretaking a loved one with mental illness. You may want to talk through your experiences or to strategize. This may be exactly what you need to make that world of difference.
Dual trained in clinical psychology and I/O psychology, I help my clients gain the understanding they need to create self awareness, undo dysfunctional habits, detach from trauma & live fulfilled lives with love & hope. You may be struggling with past trauma, complex relationships, amidst a life transition, a career change, living with mental illness or, caretaking a loved one with mental illness. You may want to talk through your experiences or to strategize. This may be exactly what you need to make that world of difference.
I am a compassionate therapist who can help you affect positive change in your life. In completing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and similar types of therapy, you will learn how to modify your thoughts and behaviors in ways that will empower you to improve your mental health. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is well researched as one of the most effective therapeutic approaches and can be applied to most mental health conditions and stressors in your life.
I am a compassionate therapist who can help you affect positive change in your life. In completing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and similar types of therapy, you will learn how to modify your thoughts and behaviors in ways that will empower you to improve your mental health. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is well researched as one of the most effective therapeutic approaches and can be applied to most mental health conditions and stressors in your life.
I work with clients of all ages — children, adolescents, and adults — including young adults, BIPOC communities, and those navigating anxiety, trauma, or major life transitions. Clients come to me carrying experiences like depression, grief, low self-esteem, stress, and relationship challenges, seeking a safe, nonjudgmental space to heal. Using a person-centered, strengths-based approach with CBT, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and solution-focused therapy, I help clients build coping skills, process emotions, and move forward with confidence and resilience.
I work with clients of all ages — children, adolescents, and adults — including young adults, BIPOC communities, and those navigating anxiety, trauma, or major life transitions. Clients come to me carrying experiences like depression, grief, low self-esteem, stress, and relationship challenges, seeking a safe, nonjudgmental space to heal. Using a person-centered, strengths-based approach with CBT, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and solution-focused therapy, I help clients build coping skills, process emotions, and move forward with confidence and resilience.
My client centered approach focuses on the individual narrative, working to unpack challenges a person has had over time and working to increase self-awareness and self-acceptance. Whether it is constant fear of a missed deadline, an upcoming social interaction, struggling with overwhelming sensory information, or managing grief and loss, these different struggles can feel difficult to manage. I love working with clients who are keen to understand why their emotions feel complex, confusing, or why they struggle to fit into the norms of society.
My client centered approach focuses on the individual narrative, working to unpack challenges a person has had over time and working to increase self-awareness and self-acceptance. Whether it is constant fear of a missed deadline, an upcoming social interaction, struggling with overwhelming sensory information, or managing grief and loss, these different struggles can feel difficult to manage. I love working with clients who are keen to understand why their emotions feel complex, confusing, or why they struggle to fit into the norms of society.
I support those navigating anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and chronic illness. Many of my clients are independent, resilient, and appear "put together" on the outside- but internally feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or unfulfilled. They've spent years "pushing through" challenges but that approach just isn't cutting it anymore. Together, we work to better understand what's keeping them stuck, build practical coping skills, and create healthier, more sustainable ways of moving forward that align with their values and well-being.
I support those navigating anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, and chronic illness. Many of my clients are independent, resilient, and appear "put together" on the outside- but internally feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or unfulfilled. They've spent years "pushing through" challenges but that approach just isn't cutting it anymore. Together, we work to better understand what's keeping them stuck, build practical coping skills, and create healthier, more sustainable ways of moving forward that align with their values and well-being.
My approach to therapy includes developing a safe and supportive environment to assist you in working through difficulties. I will help you explore and identify the core beliefs that may be at the root of your struggles and help you develop tools and techniques for coping and change.
My approach to therapy includes developing a safe and supportive environment to assist you in working through difficulties. I will help you explore and identify the core beliefs that may be at the root of your struggles and help you develop tools and techniques for coping and change.
Megan Yount, LCSW-C-S, has a Master’s degree from the University of Maryland School of Social Work (2009). She brings over a decade of experience supporting individuals and families across a wide range of settings, including Child Protective Services, group homes, schools, juvenile detention, and private practice. This diverse background allows her to meet clients where they are and tailor care to their unique experiences and needs.
Megan Yount, LCSW-C-S, has a Master’s degree from the University of Maryland School of Social Work (2009). She brings over a decade of experience supporting individuals and families across a wide range of settings, including Child Protective Services, group homes, schools, juvenile detention, and private practice. This diverse background allows her to meet clients where they are and tailor care to their unique experiences and needs.
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Cognitive Processing (CPT) Therapists
How does cognitive processing therapy work?
A CPT therapist helps a client evaluate their thoughts about the trauma they experienced, focusing on maladaptive or self-blaming thoughts that can exacerbate symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, or depression. The therapist will work with a client to help them learn to challenge such thoughts and consider different perspectives. The therapist is also likely to ask a client to work on these techniques at home between meetings, such as writing an account of their trauma that can be read aloud during a future session.
What is cognitive processing therapy for PTSD?
Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy primarily used in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to treat individuals who experienced abuse or violence, who survived natural disasters, who were first responders to such incidents, or who otherwise experienced trauma.
How long does cognitive processing therapy last?
CPT is a short-term therapy. Whether conducted one-on-one or in a group, a complete set of CPT sessions typically includes 12 weekly sessions, along with tasks for clients to complete at home, although this can vary depending on a client’s needs or a therapist’s particular treatment plan. Sessions typically last 60 or 90 minutes.
How effective is cognitive processing therapy?
A large body of research supports the use of CPT to treat people experiencing PTSD, finding it to be effective among different age groups, either in one-on-one therapy sessions or in a group therapy environment. Research suggests that although the initial sessions may be difficult, clients tend to begin to feel positive progress after the first few sessions, and that the benefits tend to last well after the therapy ends.