What is CF-CBT?
- An 8-session mental health intervention developed with the CF community to promote emotional well-being and prevent and treat depression and anxiety
- Available in-person or via telehealth, outpatient or during an inpatient medical admission
- Integrated into routine CF care to improve access to evidence-based mental health intervention
- Delivered by a trained member of your CF care team
CF-CBT might be helpful for you if…
- You feel high levels of stress from challenges managing daily CF care, work and family life balance, financial stress, or other issues.
- You have had recent life changes or transitions (either positive or negative) like a change in employment, school transitions, relationship status, new health issue, recently referred for transplant or have received a transplant, etc.
- You don’t feel like yourself.
- You have symptoms of depression and/or anxiety.
- You are feeling down or irritable; changes in sleeping, eating, or energy; more worry or trouble relaxing.
How do I get started?
- Ask your CF care team if they offer CF-CBT
- Set up a time to meet with your Mental Health Coordinator
- Get your own printed or electronic copy of the CF-CBT Patient Workbook
- Sessions are about 45 to 60 minutes long
- It’s FREE! No cost.
TESTIMONIES FROM ADULTS WITH CF
ABOUT CF-CBT
“Where have you been all my life?…It’s so fundamentally important…Mental Health is a real big issue.”
“I found it to be a wonderfully positive therapy and a really good and beneficial influence on day to day living.”
“The most important thing I learned is just how I talk to myself. Learning self-care and self-love…We are so much more than our disease.”
“One of the most helpful things was receiving validation that this was a significant problem I was having, because I had never gone for mental health treatment before. I was always focused on physical health…This is a valid issue that lots of people struggle with, and I’m not just being a crazy person because I feel like I am having these problems. They are legitimate, and there are ways to treat them and take care of them, just like there are ways to treat cystic fibrosis.”
TESTIMONIES FROM ADULTS WITH CF
ABOUT CF-CBT
“Where have you been all my life?…It’s so fundamentally important…Mental Health is a real big issue.”
“I found it to be a wonderfully positive therapy and a really good and beneficial influence on day to day living.”
“The most important thing I learned is just how I talk to myself. Learning self-care and self-love…We are so much more than our disease.”
“One of the most helpful things was receiving validation that this was a significant problem I was having, because I had never gone for mental health treatment before. I was always focused on physical health…This is a valid issue that lots of people struggle with, and I’m not just being a crazy person because I feel like I am having these problems. They are legitimate, and there are ways to treat them and take care of them, just like there are ways to treat cystic fibrosis.”