Toreyung Cobbs

About Toreyung Cobbs

Toreyung Cobbs is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of professional experience in a variety of mental health settings and with diverse clients, including both long-term chronic and acute adults or adolescent populations. He works with adolescents, adults, individuals, families and married couples. Toreyung also believes in providing therapy to anyone who is a caregiver. In fact, for clients to improve their parents, their spouse, partner or the family members assisting their sick loved ones needs therapy also. This therapist believes that change happens when everyone within that client’s circle of support receives support for themselves as well. Clients’ recovery happens when stigma due to a lack of knowledge no longer causes division amongst the client and their support systems.  Therefore, this allows true self-awareness to take place because the client finally feels heard and supported. Most clients go through life living unbalanced lives due to negative core beliefs fostered by the client’s childhood experiences, environmental influences, family pathologies, and lack of self-awareness. Toreyung will utilize techniques such as Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy coupled with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help clients learn how to manage their anxiety, depression, irrational thoughts, negative core beliefs, and cognitive distortions. Therefore, clients with rigid ritualistic routines that either fosters or develop negative core beliefs, poor behavioral patterns or distorted thinking patterns can unlearn unhealthy thinking patterns and beliefs to improve mood dysregulations issues. Learning how to live life as if it truly matters is achievable goal once an individual gains true self-awareness. In fact, Toreyung believes that no client is beyond recovery if their willing to step outside their comfort zones. This Mindfulness based approach has helped Toreyung develop an expertise in areas of depression, different anxiety disorders, low self-worth, trauma, stress management, substance abuse, stress, and relationship challenges such as couples or families in need of counseling. In fact, Toreyung ability to implement Mindfulness, DBT, ACT, Solution Focus Therapy coupled with a strong person-centered approach appears to make him an eclectic, empathic and down to earth therapist that can relate to any culture, gender, race, or sexual orientation. This therapist believes that every client is like a finger print, there are no two finger prints in the world that are identical. So, clients should be treated individually different to their particular set of challenges they present, no matter what.