CBT for Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are among the most common and most treatable challenges clients face. They can trap people in cycles of fear, avoidance, and self-doubt, keeping them from engaging fully in daily life.

CBT is the most well-researched and widely recommended approach for treating anxiety. Decades of clinical studies and international guidelines consistently support its effectiveness.

This training builds on your CBT foundation and gives you the skills to target the specific patterns that maintain anxiety, such as avoidance, safety behaviors, and anxious thinking.

Whether you’re treating Social Anxiety, GAD, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, or Specific Phobias, this course provides evidence-based strategies to help clients face anxiety with confidence and re-engage fully in work, relationships, and daily life.

You’ll learn how to:

• Recognize how anxiety presents in the therapy room

• Use step-by-step CBT strategies to treat Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Specific Phobias

• Work effectively with avoidance, safety behaviors, and the physiological symptoms of anxiety

• Explain anxiety symptoms in ways that help clients understand their experience and engage in treatment

• Use CBT interventions including cognitive restructuring, graded exposure, behavioral experiments, and psychoeducation

• Create structured, targeted treatment plans that reduce avoidance and support lasting client progress

There are 12 CE/CME credits available (see Learner Notification).