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, holding them back from living full, values-based lives.

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

This specialized training gives you the evidence-based strategies you need to treat anxiety disorders with clarity, structure, and confidence. You’ll go beyond general CBT knowledge and learn how to target the specific patterns that maintain anxiety - like avoidance, safety behaviors, and anxious thinking.

Whether you’re treating Social Anxiety, GAD, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, or Specific Phobias, you’ll gain focused, real-world tools that help you approach each session with greater direction and clinical impact.

With a structured, research-backed approach, you’ll support clients using CBT strategies that are practical, compassionate, and effective.

You’ll learn how to:

• Recognize how anxiety presents in the therapy room - and build strong, collaborative relationships with clients who are struggling

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

• Work effectively with avoidance, safety behaviours, and the physiological side of anxiety

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

• Apply core CBT interventions including cognitive restructuring, graded exposure, behavioral experiments, and psychoeducation to target anxiety symptoms directly

• Create structured, targeted treatment plans that reduce avoidance and increase confidence

• Deliver CBT for anxiety with warmth, structure, and clinical confidence

There are 12 CE/CME credits available (see Learner Notification).Please see our FAQ to review complete CE/CME details, course objectives, speaker/planner conflict of interest disclosure and more.