Taken together, the cognitive and behavioral strategies create a balanced approach to understanding and treating common life-problems. As the name implies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is comprised of both cognitive and behavioral techniques. Cognitive strategy essentially involves helping an individual think in more effective ways. Cognitive therapy holds that all our feelings can be modified by examining and changing our automatic thoughts processes. In simple words, how we think determines how we feel. Learning cognitive strategies will provide client with powerful skills that can be applied over a lifetime as effective tools in life-management. Behavioral strategies follow from the premise that maladaptive behaviors are learned, and can be unlearned as well. Among the behavioral techniques employed are training in both assertiveness and relaxation, and gradual desensitization to feared objects. In such a way the client learns through experience that some unpleasant life events can be tolerated without extremely unpleasant consequences.