Kimberly Moton

I possess expertise is working with at risk children and adolescents. My experience working within individuals within this population consists of providing outpatient, residential, and community-based mental health services to children and adolescents. Services rendered often addresses the needs of at-risk youth whose mental health illness caused significant impairments in various life domains. I have a for providing similar services that have yielded positive treatment outcomes.

As a clinician, I believe that recovery from mental illness or decrease/management of symptom impairments is likely if patients receive evidence-based treatments in line with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves psychoeducation, which relies on my ability as a practitioner to explain how it works to patients. It is a here-and-now, goal-focused, collaborative, evidence-based theory and therapy. Therapy is time-limited, structured and based on a skills-based learning approach. It is a model where thoughts are central; thoughts cause feelings, distorted thoughts cause psychological distress, therapy can only be successful through changing thoughts.

The process of therapy is to recognize that each person is an individual and services should be tailored to meet specific treatment needs. I help patients identify problems and the thoughts that cause them, and then to help them change their thoughts through thought-challenging and behavioral experiments. I understand that Cognitive Restructuring varies therefore it necessitates the incorporation of various strategies during the service delivery process.