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Precision Cognitive Therapy: integrating neuroscience, hypnosis and deep structure cognitive/behavioral therapy

James Straub, EdD and Vicki Straub, PhD, MBA

Precision Cognitive Therapy is an integrative targeted approach utilizing tools, patterns and techniques identified through advances in neurology and psychotherapy for helping increase the effectiveness of psychotherapy. This hypnoticcognitive/ behavioral transtheoretical approach has been used in both inpatient and outpatient settings for more than 20 years and combines various Eastern and Western approaches in a cohesive structure that draws on Adler's Individual Psychology, Psychosynthesis, Buddhism, Eriksonian Hypnotherapy, NLP, Imagery and understanding of mind/body functions. It is particularly useful in helping clients modify well‐ingrained personality disorders and patterns related to complex post‐traumatic stress disorder.

In the effort to survive, belong and develop identity, individuals create neuronetworks that serve as internal maps and response patterns, often in the form of procedural memories. These phenomenological structures do not form a unified integrated pattern and can be in conflict. However, once created, they typically become fixed as part of a person's private logic at an unconscious or semi‐conscious level. Such patterns often are neurologically isolated and not easily updated to the current reality and yet can significantly influence perceptions, thoughts, behaviors and emotions.