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Our CBT Therapy Services

At CBTDR & Associates, we provide structured, evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy designed to help individuals and families create meaningful, lasting change. Whether you’re seeking CBT for anxiety, behavioral therapy for kids, or support for emotional and behavioral challenges, our services are tailored to meet your unique needs. Our approach is both clinical and compassionate focused on delivering real results while ensuring you feel supported every step of the way.

What We Offer: Evidence-Based CBT Therapy

We specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), widely recognized as the most effective treatment for anxiety, mood disorders, and behavioral challenges.

Our CBT therapy focuses on:

Identifying unhelpful thought patterns
Changing behaviors that maintain distress
Building practical coping strategies
Creating long-term emotional resilience

Personalized Therapy for Children, Teens & Adults

Anxiety Therapy

Anxiety can feel overwhelming, unpredictable, and exhausting. It can interfere with your work, relationships, sleep, and overall sense of well-being.

Child Teen-Therapy

Watching your child or teen struggle with anxiety, emotions, or behavior can feel overwhelming. You may not always know how to help—and that’s okay.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Barrington

Life can be overwhelming at times owing to various factors like depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues.

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Our Approach to Therapy

We are living in a day and age where there is abundant evidence available regarding what works in psychotherapy. The provider’s role is to be familiar with the data from relevant research and choose what will work best to help people resolve problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an umbrella term for empirically supported treatments to reduce anxiety, depression, and other related problems. CBT is often referred to as the “gold-standard” for treating specific psychological problems.

Our approach to therapy is collaborative, encouraging, and supportive. We enjoy learning about people’s values and goals and helping them live more meaningful, consistent lives. We strive to listen well to help people feel heard and understood. Being in therapy ideally creates an emotionally safe space to identify patterns of problems, process feelings, and develop resilient ways of coping.

Individual therapy

CBT helps to reduce anxiety, mood and behavior problems and increase inner peace, ease, and balance. We value the opportunity to help others identify and change problems, process thoughts and feelings, and experience personal growth. Our goals are to assist people in reducing distress and gaining insight, self-awareness, and coping skills. With Dr. Rachael and her colleagues, CBT tends to unfold in 3 stages: psychoeducation, behavior change, and generalizing use of skills.

Parent coaching

Dr. Schuster and her colleagues provide strategic guidance and skills training for parents based on their unique child and her experience treating children and people of all ages with mental health challenges. They will share perspective and give advice on effective techniques which can be difficult for parents to determine on their own while in the midst of raising children with high emotional needs, anxiety, and/or behavioral problems.

Family therapy

While one person is typically an “identified patient”, the family system can unintentionally maintain individual and systemic problems. If this is happening, often family therapy is recommended to change the homeostasis and work on dynamic family patterns as a whole. Family therapy sessions can be combined with individual sessions, or be the primary mode of intervention, depending on the presenting concern(s) and needs.

Dr. Schuster and her associates use the following methods in their integrative cognitive-behavioral approach:

ACT	Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
BA	Behavior Activation
CFT	Compassion Focused Therapy
CPT	Cognitive Processing Therapy (helps with processing traumatic events and working through stuck points)
DBT	Dialectical Behavior Therapy (to help with distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness)
ERP	Exposure and Response Prevention (treatment of choice for OCD)
FAP	Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (addresses problem behavior patterns and how they function the context of relationships)
FFT	Functional Family Therapy
IFS	Internal Family Systems
MI	Motivational Interviewing
PE	Prolonged Exposure (treatment of choice for PTSD)

What to Expect from Our Therapy Process

Our structured CBT approach typically unfolds in three stages:

1. Understanding & Awareness

We help you identify patterns, triggers, and underlying beliefs.

2. Skill Building

You’ll learn practical tools to manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

3. Real-Life Application

We focus on applying these skills in everyday situations for lasting change.

Why Choose CBTDR & Associates?

When searching for CBT therapy services, it’s important to choose a provider with both expertise and a personalized approach.

Here’s what sets us apart:

✔ Licensed Clinical Psychologist with 15+ years of experience

✔ Specialized in CBT for anxiety and behavioral challenges

✔ Services for children, teens, and adults

✔ Evidence-based, results-driven care

We are committed to helping you achieve meaningful, lasting progress.

Book Your Consultation Today

Whether you’re seeking help for yourself or your child, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.

At CBTDR & Associates, we provide Cognitive Behavioral Therapy designed to help you overcome anxiety, break unhelpful patterns, and feel like yourself again.

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Phone: (224) 366-0619
Email: rschusterphd@gmail.com
Location: 330 E. Main St. Suite #214 Barrington, IL 60010

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