Brett Cobb
I specialize in helping adult men and women who are struggling with negative thinking and shame, relationship issues, and major life changes. For more than twenty years, I helped organizations and individuals in New York and Florida identify and fulfill their purpose.
With more than four years as a therapist and twenty-years in lifelong learning, I specialize in helping busy men and women who are struggling with negative thinking or shame, relationship issues, and major life changes. You know you have strengths, but may be wondering why they seem unreachable or just not enough.
For nearly five years as a therapist in Tampa Bay, I have focused on supporting adult clients, many in crisis, resolve longstanding internal and relationship conflicts, navigate traumas, and align their values and life goals. Every client is unique. I believe in supporting clients to experiment with strong, evidence-based skills and strategies to aid in identifying their best choices.
First session
Your time is important, and I want to help ensure that every session feels useful to you. With your brief pre-session assessments completed, during the first session you will be encouraged to let me know what your goals are at the moment, whether short or longer term. You will know that I care about you and what you're willing to share about your needs. We'll figure out which to address first, and we'll start on that right away. Before we end the session, I'll ask you to evaluate it together, to clarify ways to best support you. We'll then prioritize initial goals so that these are clearly addressed in the treatment plan I'll send to you within 24 hours.
Strengths
For many years, I struggled with a sense of belonging that I fully recognize now as innate. As a therapist, from the moment we first connect, I offer a boundless sense of belonging and curiosity for you and your unique journey. I provide a safe and unconditional space to feel seen, heard, and appreciated. If you’re willing to go deep, we can go there together with safety and stability. No matter what, you will be offered useful, evidence-based skills to let go of what’s no longer needed, to try on what can help going forward, and find out what works to help you make your best choices. I’ll be right with you where you are, every step of the way.
Ideal clients
I specialize in helping busy men and women who are struggling with negative thinking and shame, relationship issues, and major life changes. From the outside you may want to seem like you're doing just fine, but you may somehow feel you’re not enough or that you're not living up to your potential. You want to move forward, but feel held back by old beliefs about yourself or recent life changes. Maybe you question what you thought you wanted. You may feel a lot of anxiety being vulnerable. It takes commitment, but you have the idea you can do this with someone who gets you.
Treatment methods
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I regularly integrate ACT. Sometimes we have a clear sense that what we really need in this period of life is to be fully present, open up more, and focus on what matters most to us. ACT can be extremely helpful to tune in and consistently make action-oriented decisions one after the other anchored by our core values.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
This is very useful in my practice when a client feels stuck in patterns and is having difficulty sorting out the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that are driving decisions. CBT is also very helpful where we might be caught up in an addiction of any kind -- in other words, anything that we enjoy, that we can't stop, and that creates problems for us (adapted from G. Mate). As needed, we could also incorporate Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) to help resolve specific traumas or PTSD.
Compassion-Focused
Negative self-talk regularly stalls progress. We will never hear another voice more than we will the voice inside our head. If your self-talk tends to be hostile and unfriendly, we would bring in compassion work so that we can be with our own suffering in a different way that supports understanding, stick-to-it-iveness, and ultimately better outcomes in life all around.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
I believe that our emotions and emotion regulation are vital keys to just about everything. When we are able to identify emotions and regulate them, our options and decision making expand enormously. It's not specifically about "getting calm" -- it's more about mitigating what's happening inside us and making space for better thinking.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS regularly evokes new spiritual understanding for my clients whose spirituality is very important. Think of it as all of the "parts" that make up our view of the world and our story in it. Each part is important, and all the parts have different purposes. This is so helpful when an issue feels very rigid. Honoring the different parts, we can get into a different type of dialogue with it.
Location
Virtual sessions
In-person sessions611 W Bay St, Tampa, FL 33606, Suite 1C