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Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based treatment rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy and designed to treat PTSD and trauma from combat, childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, rape, abuse, and life-altering experiences. CPT focuses on how traumatic events create distorted beliefs, and how subsequent behaviors, influenced by those beliefs, develop as a way to protect you from future harm while effectively cutting you off from life, connection, and love.

We all have beliefs about the world, ourselves, and others. When a shocking, upsetting, or threatening event happens, we try to make sense of it, and that can lead us to change our beliefs and adopt distorted thoughts. Distorted thoughts generally follow one of two unhelpful paths:

Assimilation: This is when you change the facts about the trauma to maintain an old belief. An example of assimilation is thinking, "I was assaulted because I stayed........

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