R. Trent Codd III

R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., is the former president and founder of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Center of WNC, P.A., a group practice based in Asheville, North Carolina. After founding and leading the practice, he sold it in 2018. He currently provides clinical services through the CBT Collective, a Manhattan-based group practice.

Trent specializes in evidence-based psychotherapy and has extensive training and clinical experience in several empirically supported approaches. These include Beckian Cognitive Therapy and clinical behavior-analytic approaches such as Goldiamond’s Constructional and Nonlinear Contingency Analytic Approach, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), and Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT).

Although his clinical practice encompasses a broad range of psychological and behavioral concerns, Trent has particular expertise and interest in treating disorders characterized by maladaptive overcontrol, as well as misophonia, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and related conditions. His areas of specialization also include Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders, trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder), and excoriation disorder (skin-picking disorder). He works with children, adolescents, and adults.

Trent earned his M.A. and Ed.S. degrees in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida, where he also completed a clinical internship on the inpatient psychiatric unit at UF Health Shands Hospital. He also completed a Certificate of Graduate Study in Alcohol and Drug Studies at the University of South Carolina’s School of Public Health and graduate-level training in Applied Behavior Analysis through the University of North Texas.

His advanced professional training includes study at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, as well as completion of specialized Behavior Therapy Training Institutes (BTTIs) sponsored by the International OCD Foundation and the National Tourette Syndrome Association.

Trent is a Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). His professional affiliations include the Association for Behavior Analysis International, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.