Have you noticed difficulties with your memory or cognition that are affecting your everyday life?

Cognitive therapy can help you improve and compensate for these abilities:

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

• Poor decision-making

• Difficulty initiating, planning, or organizing tasks

• Impaired ability to perform daily tasks (e.g., reading a calendar, managing medications, using your phone

• Deficits in problem solving and reasoning

MEMORY

• Impairments in short or long-term memory

• Difficulty with working memory (e.g., walking into a room for something but forgetting what you needed)

• Trouble with orientation to person, place, or time

ATTENTION

• Slow processing skills

• Inability to multitask

• Trouble sustaining attention on a specific task

• Now easily distracted by background noises

SOCIAL COGNITION/PRAGMATICS

• Difficulty regulating emotions

• Trouble understanding nonverbal cues in conversation

• Poor insight into deficits

• Difficulty with topic selection and maintenance in conversation

• Inability to take other perspectives

LANGUAGE

• Inability to process abstract language/concepts

• Difficulty finding the right words to express yourself

VISUOSPATIAL SKILLS

• Visual neglect such as not seeing written words on the left side of a page