Bilingual Prolonged Exposure Therapy | Virtual and In-Person Therapy in North Carolina

At Coast to Coast Bilingual Counseling, we provide Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) to help individuals (including military veterans, active duty service members, childhood abuse victims, and sexual abuse victims) overcome trauma. Our therapists use this evidence-based approach to assist clients in gradually confronting and processing distressing memories and triggers.

Prolonged Exposure Therapy focuses on reducing the impact of traumatic experiences by encouraging safe, controlled exposure to feared situations and thoughts. This method is particularly effective when dealing with trauma, helping to alleviate symptoms of anxiety, avoidance, and emotional distress. Located in North Carolina, our PE therapy services offer a supportive environment for healing and recovery.

What is PE (Prolonged Exposure Therapy)?

Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) specifically designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Developed by Dr. Edna Foa, PE aims to help individuals confront and process traumatic memories and reduce PTSD symptoms by gradually facing their fears.

Here are the main components of Prolonged Exposure Therapy:

  1. Education: The therapy begins with educating the individual about PTSD and how avoidance and safety behaviors contribute to the maintenance of their symptoms.

  2. Imaginal Exposure: The person repeatedly revisits and recounts the traumatic event in detail during therapy sessions. This process helps the individual confront the memory and begin to process it, reducing its emotional power over time.

  3. In Vivo Exposure: This involves gradually and systematically confronting real-life situations or places that the person has been avoiding due to trauma-related fears. The goal is to help the individual become less sensitive to these triggers and reduce avoidance behavior.

  4. Processing: After exposure, the therapist helps the individual process their thoughts and feelings about the trauma. This can involve identifying and challenging unhelpful beliefs related to the trauma.

  5. Building Coping Skills: Throughout therapy, individuals learn and practice coping skills to manage anxiety and distress related to the trauma, helping them to handle their reactions more effectively.

Prolonged Exposure Therapy typically involves weekly sessions over several months. It is based on the principle that avoiding reminders of the trauma maintains and exacerbates PTSD symptoms, while facing these reminders in a controlled and systematic way helps to reduce their impact and helps the person to integrate and process the traumatic experience.

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Coast to Coast Bilingual Counseling is in-network at the following insurance plans:

Alliance Medicaid

Trillium Medicaid

Healthy Blue Medicaid

United Health Care Medicaid

North Carolina Medicare

Tricare4Life (Medicare)

Tricare East

CHAMPVA

Blue Cross Blue Shield (all plans including Anthem)

United Health Care Commercial

Cigna (Evernorth)

Beacon

Aetna

Medcost

Specializing in Multicultural and
Bilingual Therapy Services

Multicultural therapy, also known as multicultural counseling or cross-cultural therapy, is an approach to psychotherapy that recognizes and incorporates the cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds of patients into the therapeutic process. The aim is to provide more effective and respectful treatment by considering how cultural factors influence mental health and therapy outcomes.

Coast to Coast Bilingual Counseling specializes in Multicultural and Bilingual counseling. We have Spanish-speaking, Black, Hispanic, and Biracial therapists available to help meet your unique cultural background.

Virtual Therapy is available to clients throughout North Carolina.

We use a HIPAA-compliant video software in our virtual therapy sessions.