Welcome!

Welcome to the official website of Neuroscience-Informed Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (nCBT).

nCBT is a new psychotherapeutic approach that incorporates the dual processing model from Kahneman (2003) to explain how people process internal and external sensory information. During situations of threat and stress, a person first processes preconscious sensory stimuli related to environmental events via limbic structures that have directional pathways to the pituitary gland, which releases cortisol and adrenaline at the adrenal cortex/medulla in anticipation of threat. The person is typically not consciously aware of these processes, which occur very quickly and reflexively. Next, the person becomes consciously aware of this physiological activation and starts to appraise their situation and emotional response resulting in subsequent physiological and emotional consequences. An early treatment goal is to help clients to predict, understand, and tolerate/accept their physiological responses as adaptive to survival. For more information, we recommend reading the articles on the Publications page.

We believe in making the method widely available. While we are not currently conducting trainings at this time, the treatment manual, handouts, and worksheets are posted on the Resources page.

In the near future, we will be looking for practitioners who are interested in learning nCBT and using the model with clients in their clinical practice. If you are interested in being contacted when a future training is scheduled, you can submit your information on the Contact page.