Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is designed to help you manage your tinnitus by reducing emotional stress that may worsen the quality of your life. CBT does not get rid of your symptoms. It helps you accept it.
Your therapist or counselor will help you understand what happens in your brain when you have tinnitus. They may also teach you ways to make your symptoms less noticeable and relax with ease. Studies have found that [13] CBT significantly improves some symptoms that accompany tinnitus.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week course that teaches people how to control their attention. It was developed to help people tune out from chronic pain, but it is also effective against tinnitus.
Researchers have developed a mindfulness-based tinnitus stress reduction (MBTSR) program found [14] to significantly alter people’s perception of their tinnitus symptoms.