Before your first therapy session, you may have some basic questions you'd like answered. Here are answers to 12 common inqueries, from a therapist. Our editors independently select these products.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps change negative thought patterns to improve mood and behavior. CBT can treat anxiety ...

Have you ever sunk into the couch at your therapist's office, given a report of the week, and scheduled for next week without a sense of knowing where you are going in therapy or how well you are ...

Speech therapy is a treatment for speech, language, and voice disorders. During speech therapy, you or your child works with a speech-language pathologist (SLP), who teaches you how to speak more ...

Cognitive impairment is a common but often overlooked symptom of schizophrenia. From difficulties in social settings to remembering how to take the bus to work, decreased cognitive function can ...

Virtual counseling has become the norm during the pandemic. Here’s how to decide whether it’s still working for you. By Juno DeMelo Before the pandemic, Haley Walker was going to in-person talk ...

Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...