Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for Tinnitus
Relief from Tinnitus. Skills for Life.
CBT stands for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, the most clinically-proven treatment for tinnitus. CBT is like physical therapy for your ears, a set of exercises, or skills, to cope better with tinnitus, promote habituation, and resume a full, valued life.
Feel Better, Function Better Now
Dr. Hubbard’s CBT program is designed to help us calm down and function better with tinnitus. We learn to hear our tinnitus effectively, without being hijacked by gloom and doom thinking and unrealistic wishes that the sounds would stop. Achieving this ability helps us more calmly and effectively concentrate with tinnitus, relax with tinnitus, sleep with tinnitus. The goal is full recovery from the emotional and attentional burden of tinnitus, to feel and behave like ourselves again!
Promote Habituation
It’s easy to get the impression that to have tinnitus is to suffer. But tinnitus need not be a life-long burden. Evidence shows that the vast majority of people with tinnitus eventually achieve a high level of habituation. Our tinnitus hasn’t changed, but we rarely hear it, and when we do, we don’t care. Through habituation it gets easier, often a lot easier, to live with tinnitus. At its highest level, habituation is equivalent to a cure. LEARN MORE
Advice You Can Trust
Dr. Bruce Hubbard, PhD
I was an experienced cognitive-behavioral psychologist when my life was hijacked by tinnitus. (Read my tinnitus success story) Following a period of severe distress and disability, I used CBT and mindfulness to achieve full relief. It took time and patience, facing challenging emotions, grieving the loss of my prior quality of hearing. But for the past sixteen years, I rarely notice my tinnitus, and when I do, it’s emotionally neutral, I could not care less and I forget about it again in seconds. Since my recovery, I’ve helped over a thousand others achieve relief from their tinnitus. And I can help you!
Credentials
“I no longer notice my tinnitus, which I had thought would never be possible.”
Deborah C., Piano Instructor, Englewood, NJ
“Bruce’s suggestions were immediately practical, useful, and effective.”
Peter S., University Professor, Albany, NY
“You will heal, and you will be happy again!”
Tony Z., Chief Technology Officer, Philadelphia, PA