What is cognitive therapy?

• Just as strokes and brain injuries affect physical skills, they also affect cognitive skills.

• You may find difficulty with the following areas:

  • Memory: Recalling information from the recent past, repeatedly asking the same questions

  • Problem solving: Navigating situational, functional, and/or social issues

  • Reasoning: Interpreting given information and subsequently planning and sequencing next steps

  • Insight: Awareness of current deficits, how they may affect your ability to carry out different activities, and utilizing strategies to compensate

  • Attention: Managing distractions in the environment, multitasking, and switching focus between tasks

  • Initiation: Making your wants/thoughts/needs known, or starting needed tasks

• In therapy, we can target these skills in realistic, functional contexts in order to help you return to being as independent as possible.