Cognitive therapy is a kind of therapy like a grown-up game. A therapist will talk to you and help you identify what you're thinking and how that might be affecting your behavior and how you feel. Then, the therapist will help you find new, more helpful ways to think about the things that are bothering you, so that you can feel better and act differently. It's like teaching yourself a better way to think so that the things that are causing you problems don't bother you as much.